fristislurper

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Also very much a problem in Europe sadly. Of course not allowed, but pretty hard to detect. There are test that can tell the difference, but they are not accepted by the EU (yet?).

[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Drinking is definitely worse. Like, talking is bad sure, but drinking is much worse.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Anyone have an recent example of FDC Willard being thanked in a paper? I couldn't find any, sadly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I should really start doing that, not sure why I've never thought of that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Are you sure? It looks like the coastline in France... I don't recognize the Netherlands here at all. What coastline are we looking at exactly? I don't see the afsluitdijk, nor recognize the surrounding coastline. Also, I have never heard anyone refer to it as Zuiderzeedam.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

The horse is proud of what they did. Sick bastard. Even signed the photograph.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it has its place. There is a clear difference between someone coming to a country for a limited time to do some specialized work with the intention of leaving, compared to someone who has little or no intention of ever returning to their country of origin. Both categories are incompareble in the type of support they need (or want), where they live, whether they need to learn the language, etc. Just ignoring the difference is a bit silly.

Although I agree the term is misused sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Christian Horner?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, F1 driver Max Verstappen is in a similar situation. Clearly insanely talented, but probably got there by having a childhood which was pretty fucked up (left at gas station by father in Italy if he lost a karting race, etc.).

Maybe we miss out on a couple of savants without this kind of treatement, but it is a pretty good tradeoff, especially if you think about all the kids that did not make it to the top, and just had a abusive childhood without anything to show for it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wikipedia actually has an article about it. They are mainly bothered by the unreadability of it. Editors can indeed bundle citations as you suggest, but it takes some manual effort.

Citation overkill is also a bit of a red flag for edit wars, or barely-notable things that someone really wants to have on a wiki page.

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