IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, June 03, 2022

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I focus on reayl holidays

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not plutophilia

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Understood, but when scanning the news it was hard not to miss the packed

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crowds ignoring all sensible distance

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we got subjected to this when the bus with the plyers came

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and then hoards of people walking alongside the bus washed us over like a massive wave

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which we disliked stronglyt

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there was no crowd control

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yes that is what it looked like in the pictures

Jun 03 07:51

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I think I sent you a link to the video

Jun 03 07:51

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I almost showed up in it, I saw some people who were near to us

Jun 03 07:51

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ack

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Jun 03 08:00

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you realise typescript is how microsoft attacks javascript, right?

Jun 03 08:03

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kind of, it is hard to keep track of all the bullshit. so remove it from the

Jun 03 08:03

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links if necessary please

Jun 03 08:03

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so typescript is EEE against javascript?

Jun 03 08:44

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ack

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Jun 03 09:34

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[09:34] <matey> IBM has followed Microsoft's outline from the Halloween Documents and been able to use systemd to decommodify GNU/Linux in such a way that it becomes so complex that their services must be hired in so decommodification appears to possibly be a recurring theme here.

Jun 03 09:35

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[09:34] <matey> well, it only took a year and three months

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Jun 03 09:42

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ack

Jun 03 10:38

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"year and three months" ?

Jun 03 10:38

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Dear colleagues,

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In 2019, the EPO orchestrated a flawed Financial Study together with Oliver Wyman & Mercer. The President selected a base-2 scenario which foresaw deflation and an overall deficit of €3.8bn by 2038, and added a €2bn arbitrary “buffer” for closing the alleged “gap”.

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In May 2020, SUEPO mandated Ernst & Young to perform an analysis. Comparing the key assumptions of the 2019 study with those of other EPO documents, Ernst & Young found that the 2019 study consistently took an overly conservative approach. It was clear that the EPO had no deficit.

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In spite of this evidence, the President put in place as of July 2020 a new salary adjustment procedure aimed at closing the alleged “gap” and which cuts staff purchasing power. Instead of the alleged deflation, inflation materialized at the historical level of +9,1% in Germany[1] since then. At the same time, EPO salaries were adjusted by only +0,5%.

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Over the same period, the EPO saved on liabilities and increased its assets in the treasury fund and the pension reserve fund. Within only 2 years, the new salary adjustment procedure saved €1,33bn of the €2bn planned to be saved over 20 years. At the end of 2021 the actual budget surplus came to €385.7m, 10.6% better than 2020, and significantly above the budget figure of €214.8m.[2]

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The generated savings are currently not managed by staff. Staff has no say in the supervision of the treasury fund of the EPO and there is currently no mechanism to make cash payouts out of the pension reserve fund.

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In view of the excellent performance of the EPO, staff should be thanked for their effort instead of having a historical loss of purchasing power. This situation is neither justified nor sustainable. For the above reasons:

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SUEPO Munich requests an extraordinary salary adjustment to be applied as of 1 July 2022.

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ota (new epo docs)

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Jun 03 11:41

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such a law would be good, but >50 staff limit should be removed

Jun 03 12:04

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yes and how can anonymity be guaranteed even setting aside the question of

Jun 03 12:04

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authenticity

Jun 03 12:04

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a matter of track record and TRUST

Jun 03 12:05

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ack

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ack

Jun 03 12:05

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draft eta 5 mins

Jun 03 12:17

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draft

Jun 03 12:17

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reading

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"Sounds like a mental issue, God complex of sorts" to diagnostic, arm chair

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psychiatry

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just mental or instability, either way it's not a desirable trait in one

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in his ostensible role

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shall I say ego issue?

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OK I will work on rewording that bit now

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ack

Jun 03 12:27

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remember part of his loss of temper is due to us

Jun 03 12:34

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because he named us before it happened

Jun 03 12:34

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ack

Jun 03 12:34

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yes a good sign but important they are removed from office and not replaced

Jun 03 12:37

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with similar crooks or cronies

Jun 03 12:37

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being passion ately hated by crooks is a badge of honour

Jun 03 12:38

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that's the council's job

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buit it is complicit

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as if the eu/ec

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*as is

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the EC is quite corrupt as well, the corruption may be intertwined

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this interplay motivates me

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euipo, wipo

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exzposing epo corruptionb even showed that ilo/aloat is failing

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and lots of conrete examples of that

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so one cog shows a defunct machine

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excellent

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so we keep on going

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we started getting uspto tips

Jun 03 12:43

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The USPTO has been heading into trouble a lot recently but not trouble free

Jun 03 12:45

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before that either

Jun 03 12:45

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epo competes with npos

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uspto lacks rivals

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uspto never enjoyed good reputation like epo

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uspto is widely regarded as tool of trolls and megacorps

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ack

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which means there isd not much to damage inmage-wise

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, however few outside even think about the USPTO

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s/seserts/deserts/

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I'm still considering how to get *any* regional news services to pick up

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the topic, even superficially

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ack

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another aspecst is

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if you ignore news seserts 2012-2022

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there is a long media and popularr tradition 'bashing' uspto

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epo is closer to home and the media treated it like the eu

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bashing = right wing

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corporsations = left weing???

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(standing desk= more typos)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-pepper-spraying-cop-got-a-bigger-payout-than-his-victims/280822/

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rumors should not be highlighted. i't not sure the best way to document them

Jun 03 13:00

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without appearing to spread them further

Jun 03 13:00

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many used the moving images from the UC Davis incident as a "meme"

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theatlantic.com | The Pepper-Spraying Cop Got a Bigger Payout Than His Victims - The Atlantic

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world's happiest country frags its heels for 2 years before charging someone who assaulted people

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*drags

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if he fragged them, it might take 2 months to charge

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they might pay a home visit

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and serve papers

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and ask kindly to come to the back od the car

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----

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if you become a thorn on the side of the rich and powerful, be careful and clever about it

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as they will look for way to intimidate, demonise, litigate, and arrest you

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don't make it easier for them and you will last longer as a thorn :)

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ack

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if the thorn can stay there long enough, it will cause an infection

Jun 03 14:01

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but that takes time

Jun 03 14:01

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So you say our work is essential: Essential workers and the potential for transformative learning in the wake of COVID‐19 social and economic disruption - John Wiley https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ace.20455 opposite of "bullshit jobs"

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 503 @ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ace.20455 )

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we got rid of one bullshitter: SarinGas

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only damage was done by that job

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ack

Jun 03 14:07

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lasting damage apparently

Jun 03 14:07

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some jobs are some bullshit that they are not only a net negative for society but for the business that pays the salary

Jun 03 14:07

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yep

Jun 03 14:17

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thew other day you mentionmed that the renumeration level is high for skilled staff to be

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available at rather unsocial hours of the day without habving to wake anyone up to tackle the issues

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or incidents

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there was a seinfeld skit about how doormen don't do much ("sweep sweep sweep!") but I think it is an apt analogy

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here . they do not need to do much, but their presence alone, merely being there, brings some pece of mind and action when

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it is necessary

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if all jobs required non-=stop action, there would be no way tio employ 5 billion people 40 hours a week

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but people who never do any ACTUAL work do not seem to get it

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There are people who expect their guests to pay for these people's own, self-serving parties. Like our queen...

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[14:13] <techrights-news> Countries' royals are rich due to wealth gained by their people, it's not that those people enjoy wealth because of rich (leech) royals

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[14:15] <techrights-news> A royal's definition of hard work is visiting and shaking hands with people who do hard work. And then embarking on a plane with Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates to 'chill' for a while...

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yep

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they are paid so that they /are/ there on site when needed

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again it is the availability which is being paid for

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ack

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in our case, turning day and night upside down

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ack

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Jun 03 15:06

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<techrights-news> Two things wrong with the link. 1) it links to an anti-Linux BS piece that boosters by a 'Linux' site (it's actually Microsoft BS machine). 2) LXer doesn't link to it directly but to a piece that's just a URL http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=316428

Jun 03 15:18

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxsecurity.com | EnemyBot Linux Botnet Now Exploits Web Server, Android and CMS Vuln...

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PjP

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I should be thankful our weather is quite sane

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the rare floods and gales are not plasant

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but the cables are underground and we have no quakes

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sometimes I joke to myself that a lack of serious nartural disatsers

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enables Britain to get ahead

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focusing on epxnsion rather than fixing what's at home

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rianne's family routinely experiences extreme weather

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more so in recent decades

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does my draft makew sense

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ofr is it full of bs (I had one glass of wine)

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given the context?

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I'm likely going to spend more time on the wiki

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checking

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(oops, too slow again)

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Would some kind of UPS make sense at your place? Even maybe a UPS HAT for one

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of the RPis?

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I said to the man on the phone )verry LON chat)

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that if a second outage happens, I'll get a ups for the modem and pi

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we talked aboutprices and such

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there has not been a repeat incident since

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so a ups might turn out to be a total wate of effort an dtime

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ack

Jun 03 18:06

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yes, if the power is that reliable it would be unnecessary

Jun 03 18:06

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first time in 16 years, unless we do something silly that takes down a fuse... to be fiar, for OUR OWN protection

Jun 03 18:06

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draft

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not a ramble

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but tipsy recollsction

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i think it ought to be said

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I think I'll have a LOT more free time next month

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we already lapsed the pension payment this month

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so I assume they reset tge system temproareily.

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ack

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EEE could be expanded (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/html-abbr-tag/)

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the characteristics which make Battistelli seem like a gangster could be

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.geeksforgeeks.org | HTML abbr Tag - GeeksforGeeks

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annotated briefly

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more like bankster

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but there is no proper def for it

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m,aybe mobster

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the family n corsica is notorious

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I shall expand a bit

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I might even make a video about it (not draunk, justa little tipsy)

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ack

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this is so embarassing

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for "europe"

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as in the pertinent democratic institutions

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ack

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I wasn'ty even covering politics

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IO focused on patents

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and here we are writing about ilo and ec and stuff...

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because it is all connecte

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dwhether you like it or not

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ota

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Jun 03 18:25

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ok, donme recording

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and rianne came back home with lots of clow-cost cheese

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like less than quarter price

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cheese stores well for the most part, so usually there is no rush to eat it

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up quickly