Have you tried some readability site, or reader mode if your browser supports it?
I don't know what either of those is!
It's basically a browser mode/extension (Safari supports it out of the box, Chrome has addons) that's designed for readability of longer articles by cleaning out all the cruft and leaving you with just the text.
All modern browsers support text scaling. I use it when I am not wearing my glasses and a website decides to be too blurry for me.
Try it.
Hold down Ctrl and press the +/- keys. Press Ctrl+0 to return to 100% zoom from anywhere. Chrome will pop up some indicators to show you are in zoom text mode, dunno about IE.
A town in NZ used to have a slogan along the lines of "Whatever it takes"
Freedom for the Northern Isles!
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
‘We only sought damages from RTE after they refused to apologise over claim of homophobia’
Irish Times columnist Breda O’Brien has stated that she and other members of the Iona Institute sought libel damages after RTE refused to apologise.
In an article in today’s Irish Times newspaper, Ms O’Brien said she was not remotely interested in money but agreed to accept damages because “people don’t take you seriously unless there is some sort of settlement”.
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“Supposing somebody was called racist instead of homophobic, do you think that person would stand back and say that is fair comment? That’s the analogy. I don’t accept that I’m homophobic,” she said.
If you'd said that black people shouldn't be allowed raise children, then yes, yes I would call you racist.
A town in NZ used to have a slogan along the lines of "Whatever it takes"
Oh god the slogans on some of AFL teams' membership brochures were amazing last year.
Team who just got caught giving banned performance enhancing drugs to their players: "Whatever it takes."
Team who just got caught breaching the salary cap: "Be the unfair advantage."
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two people died because of neck nominations this weekend
people are saying they should be banned by the government
personally i think it's fair to assume that people should know that downing a pint of whiskey isn't good for them
‘We only sought damages from RTE after they refused to apologise over claim of homophobia’
Irish Times columnist Breda O’Brien has stated that she and other members of the Iona Institute sought libel damages after RTE refused to apologise.
In an article in today’s Irish Times newspaper, Ms O’Brien said she was not remotely interested in money but agreed to accept damages because “people don’t take you seriously unless there is some sort of settlement”.
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“Supposing somebody was called racist instead of homophobic, do you think that person would stand back and say that is fair comment? That’s the analogy. I don’t accept that I’m homophobic,” she said.
If you'd said that black people shouldn't be allowed raise children, then yes, yes I would call you racist.
If she doesn't care about the money, she'll be donating any hypothetical winnings to charity then?
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
I just went and looked up this RTE thing.
A bunch of homophobes said homophobic things, and RTE called them out on it.
They were then able to sue, and RTE had to pay out settlements for calling these silly geese what they are.
It is sometimes easy to forget the US protection of free speech is not common even in Western society.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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‘We only sought damages from RTE after they refused to apologise over claim of homophobia’
Irish Times columnist Breda O’Brien has stated that she and other members of the Iona Institute sought libel damages after RTE refused to apologise.
In an article in today’s Irish Times newspaper, Ms O’Brien said she was not remotely interested in money but agreed to accept damages because “people don’t take you seriously unless there is some sort of settlement”.
[...]
“Supposing somebody was called racist instead of homophobic, do you think that person would stand back and say that is fair comment? That’s the analogy. I don’t accept that I’m homophobic,” she said.
If you'd said that black people shouldn't be allowed raise children, then yes, yes I would call you racist.
If she doesn't care about the money, she'll be donating any hypothetical winnings to charity then?
they're a pro life organisation, so chances are they'd only donate it to like minded charities
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
But still. If I went on the local news and called a homophobe a homophobe, the station wouldn't have to pay the homophobe.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
holy fuck, I just read Panti's wiki
On 11 January 2014, O'Neill appeared on RTÉ's The Saturday Night Show with Brendan O'Connor. Comments made by O'Neill on the topic of homophobia, during the interview, mentioned individuals involved in Irish journalism, and a conservative lobby group. O'Neill's view was that those mentioned displayed homophobic behaviour due to their opposition to same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption. Those mentioned, in-turn, threatened RTÉ and O'Neill with legal action.[4] RTÉ subsequently removed that section of the interview from their online archive.[11]
On 25 January episode of the RTÉ Saturday Night Show O'Connor issued a controversial public apology on behalf of RTÉ to those mentioned by O'Neill in the interview held two weeks previously.[12] The fact that the Irish State broadcaster (RTÉ) censored a citizens opinions, and then paid compensation to those named by Panti, became a controversial issue, discussed by members of government.[13][14][15][16]
RTÉ paid monies to those named by Panti.[17]
Fucking disgraceful. The organisation mentioned was The Iona Institute, a bunch of pro-lifers with a disgusting attitude towards marriage equality and women's rights.
two people died because of neck nominations this weekend
people are saying they should be banned by the government
personally i think it's fair to assume that people should know that downing a pint of whiskey isn't good for them
what are people proposing they ban exactly?
drunken bets?
good luck with that, how would that law even be worded anyway? how would it be enforced?
a kid got drunk, did something stupid and got himself killed, it's a tragic accident where personal responcibility has to get its credit rather than casting around for something to blame or ban
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I'll be in Aberdeen on Thursday, but I'm not staying over and I'll be out at some conference centre - beer prospects are poor. I'll let you know next time I'm coming up if I'll be staying over / in the city.
Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
two people died because of neck nominations this weekend
people are saying they should be banned by the government
personally i think it's fair to assume that people should know that downing a pint of whiskey isn't good for them
what are people proposing they ban exactly?
drunken bets?
good luck with that, how would that law even be worded anyway? how would it be enforced?
a kid got drunk, did something stupid and got himself killed, it's a tragic accident where personal responcibility has to get its credit rather than casting around for something to blame or ban
Let me put it this way. This was done with no intermediary system at all:
I'll be in Aberdeen on Thursday, but I'm not staying over and I'll be out at some conference centre - beer prospects are poor. I'll let you know next time I'm coming up if I'll be staying over / in the city.
For too long have the bigots been ignored. Now, their time has come and their illogical, uninformed prejudices shall be heard and treated as though they are sensible opinions and not just the witterings of thickos and knuckle dragging halfwits.
two people died because of neck nominations this weekend
people are saying they should be banned by the government
personally i think it's fair to assume that people should know that downing a pint of whiskey isn't good for them
what are people proposing they ban exactly?
drunken bets?
good luck with that, how would that law even be worded anyway? how would it be enforced?
a kid got drunk, did something stupid and got himself killed, it's a tragic accident where personal responcibility has to get its credit rather than casting around for something to blame or ban
Let me put it this way. This was done with no intermediary system at all:
two people died because of neck nominations this weekend
people are saying they should be banned by the government
personally i think it's fair to assume that people should know that downing a pint of whiskey isn't good for them
what are people proposing they ban exactly?
drunken bets?
good luck with that, how would that law even be worded anyway? how would it be enforced?
a kid got drunk, did something stupid and got himself killed, it's a tragic accident where personal responcibility has to get its credit rather than casting around for something to blame or ban
If some of the more insufferable occupiers of doldrums of premature middle age I have the misfortune to be related to are anything to go by, neck nominations not only invented the very concept of young people doing stupid things, but made it even worse because it's on the youtubes.
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two people died because of neck nominations this weekend
people are saying they should be banned by the government
personally i think it's fair to assume that people should know that downing a pint of whiskey isn't good for them
what are people proposing they ban exactly?
drunken bets?
good luck with that, how would that law even be worded anyway? how would it be enforced?
a kid got drunk, did something stupid and got himself killed, it's a tragic accident where personal responcibility has to get its credit rather than casting around for something to blame or ban
Let me put it this way. This was done with no intermediary system at all:
i can't watch the vid but im guessing the guy drinks all of that
again what are you suggesting here?
i'm honestly curious what legislative solution people are proposing to curb binge drinking or drunken stupidity
Alcohol taxes and minimum pricing schemes are, if I recall correctly, effective at curbing binge drinking and they tend to be effective at mitigating both problem drinkers and the externalities of problem drinkers.
I'll be in Aberdeen on Thursday, but I'm not staying over and I'll be out at some conference centre - beer prospects are poor. I'll let you know next time I'm coming up if I'll be staying over / in the city.
Also boo!
also also the @ system makes me regret my dangling apostrophe and wonder how many other notices I missed.
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two people died because of neck nominations this weekend
people are saying they should be banned by the government
personally i think it's fair to assume that people should know that downing a pint of whiskey isn't good for them
what are people proposing they ban exactly?
drunken bets?
good luck with that, how would that law even be worded anyway? how would it be enforced?
a kid got drunk, did something stupid and got himself killed, it's a tragic accident where personal responcibility has to get its credit rather than casting around for something to blame or ban
Let me put it this way. This was done with no intermediary system at all:
i can't watch the vid but im guessing the guy drinks all of that
again what are you suggesting here?
i'm honestly curious what legislative solution people are proposing to curb binge drinking or drunken stupidity
Alcohol taxes and minimum pricing schemes are, if I recall correctly, effective at curbing binge drinking and they tend to be effective at mitigating both problem drinkers and the externalities of problem drinkers.
well great, but those things already exist and have apparently failed to tackle the issue of drunk people doing stupid things
i'd love for binge drinking to vanish overnight, but realistically to get rid of it you're looking at re-introducing prohibition
and we know how well that works
this is just another case of "someone died oh god we have to be seen to be doing something lets find something to ban that'll make everything better"
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There's a town in Australia called Aberdeen as well.
A woman killed and ate her husband there once.
It was the second most exciting thing to ever happen there.
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I don't know what either of those is!
It's basically a browser mode/extension (Safari supports it out of the box, Chrome has addons) that's designed for readability of longer articles by cleaning out all the cruft and leaving you with just the text.
edit: god, IE sucks. Here's a randomly googled Chrome extension.- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-mode/nagcaahojecfeopbghgihcabgiepploa
damnit work.
It probably supports themes to find something that works.
"Innovation at any cost"
"Marginal competence, minimal ethics"
All modern browsers support text scaling. I use it when I am not wearing my glasses and a website decides to be too blurry for me.
Try it.
Hold down Ctrl and press the +/- keys. Press Ctrl+0 to return to 100% zoom from anywhere. Chrome will pop up some indicators to show you are in zoom text mode, dunno about IE.
well, i'd hire you
If you'd said that black people shouldn't be allowed raise children, then yes, yes I would call you racist.
Oh god the slogans on some of AFL teams' membership brochures were amazing last year.
Team who just got caught giving banned performance enhancing drugs to their players: "Whatever it takes."
Team who just got caught breaching the salary cap: "Be the unfair advantage."
people are saying they should be banned by the government
personally i think it's fair to assume that people should know that downing a pint of whiskey isn't good for them
If she doesn't care about the money, she'll be donating any hypothetical winnings to charity then?
A bunch of homophobes said homophobic things, and RTE called them out on it.
They were then able to sue, and RTE had to pay out settlements for calling these silly geese what they are.
It is sometimes easy to forget the US protection of free speech is not common even in Western society.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
they're a pro life organisation, so chances are they'd only donate it to like minded charities
RTE is the broadcaster. It was someone on RTE (Rory O'Neill, aka Panti) who didn't represent them who accused the organisation of being homophobic.
this sounds like a case of lolIreland (sorry Tav)
gotta remember they're still a very religious place
i dont think the case would have gone that way in the UK
we generally strike a nice balance, you're allowed to call out racists and homophobes but we don't have to tolerate west boro baptists either
not to say we're perfect and always come down on the right side
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Fucking disgraceful. The organisation mentioned was The Iona Institute, a bunch of pro-lifers with a disgusting attitude towards marriage equality and women's rights.
what are people proposing they ban exactly?
drunken bets?
good luck with that, how would that law even be worded anyway? how would it be enforced?
a kid got drunk, did something stupid and got himself killed, it's a tragic accident where personal responcibility has to get its credit rather than casting around for something to blame or ban
there was a debate on TV last week where people who oppose gay marriage said they were sick of being talked down to and wanted their opinion heard
if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go scream into a pillow
well provided you have some defencable basis for the claim, you wouldn't here either
I'll be in Aberdeen on Thursday, but I'm not staying over and I'll be out at some conference centre - beer prospects are poor. I'll let you know next time I'm coming up if I'll be staying over / in the city.
Let me put it this way. This was done with no intermediary system at all:
boo
next time hopefully
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This was part of a series of flyers they sent out after Savita Halappanavar died as a result of not being able to receive an abortion.
i can't watch the vid but im guessing the guy drinks all of that
again what are you suggesting here?
i'm honestly curious what legislative solution people are proposing to curb binge drinking or drunken stupidity
If some of the more insufferable occupiers of doldrums of premature middle age I have the misfortune to be related to are anything to go by, neck nominations not only invented the very concept of young people doing stupid things, but made it even worse because it's on the youtubes.
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
Alcohol taxes and minimum pricing schemes are, if I recall correctly, effective at curbing binge drinking and they tend to be effective at mitigating both problem drinkers and the externalities of problem drinkers.
Personally, I just fake it until sometime after midday.
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
My function is sleeping early in the morning. I function very well.
Also boo!
also also the @ system makes me regret my dangling apostrophe and wonder how many other notices I missed.
Best part is Elway is in there.
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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well great, but those things already exist and have apparently failed to tackle the issue of drunk people doing stupid things
i'd love for binge drinking to vanish overnight, but realistically to get rid of it you're looking at re-introducing prohibition
and we know how well that works
this is just another case of "someone died oh god we have to be seen to be doing something lets find something to ban that'll make everything better"
A woman killed and ate her husband there once.
It was the second most exciting thing to ever happen there.