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Why Was the Longbow So Effective?(medievalists.net)
4 points by acdanger 3y ago|0 comments
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by acdanger 3y ago
Saw the Pogues play about 10 years. Shane was offstage most of the time and was brought on to stage in a wheelchair for a couple of songs to just sort of sit there and wave. It was sad and I thought he had days to live at the time.
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Shane MacGowan has died(bbc.com)
252 points by acdanger 3y ago|91 comments
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by acdanger 3y ago
Likely including benefits in this figure.
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by acdanger 3y ago
How can lowering the population == genocide ? Surely, there are many other ways of decreasing the number of the planet other than extermination.
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by acdanger 3y ago
Tom Waits sued Frito Lay for using his voice / musical stylings in ad: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79648/when-tom-waits-sue...
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by acdanger 3y ago
Also made into a 2022 movie starring Nicholas Cage.
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by acdanger 3y ago
Arcane is excellent - animation is stellar. BUT I didn't even realize it was a video game adaptation until two episodes in.
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by acdanger 3y ago
BTC was around $65,000 a couple years back, no? I wonder how much of the current price of $28,000 is propped up by lost thumb drives , or wallets seized by authorities - limited supply rather than continued speculation.
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Pots of gold: the world’s most expensive house plants (2022)(theguardian.com)
71 points by acdanger 3y ago|39 comments
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by acdanger 3y ago
They do mention confederate flags on display, which is hard to imagine not being seen as political if not racial even in the South in 2023.
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Boeing is using Fortnite’s game engine to upgrade B-52s(defenseone.com)
4 points by acdanger 3y ago|3 comments
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Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote(theguardian.com)
2 points by acdanger 3y ago|0 comments
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New Metal Boosts Batteries(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by acdanger 3y ago|0 comments
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The Inside Job: what the thefts mean for the British Museum's future(theartnewspaper.com)
3 points by acdanger 3y ago|1 comments
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When Trucks Fly(newyorker.com)
54 points by acdanger 3y ago|70 comments
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by acdanger 3y ago
Sorry, do you mean the “un-educated” in your first paragraph? I’m having trouble understanding how the educated are the ones who resist education.
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by acdanger 3y ago
Your description immediately brought the satirical town of Scarfolk to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfolk
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Tomato Sauce Is Delicious. It’s Also Worth Billions of Dollars(wsj.com)
2 points by acdanger 3y ago|1 comments
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by acdanger 3y ago
With no other (non-human) life , humans could not exist .
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We tried that 'lab-grown' chicken at one of José Andrés' D.C. restaurants(npr.org)
2 points by acdanger 3y ago|0 comments
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Why the famed Appalachian Trail keeps getting longer – and harder(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by acdanger 3y ago|0 comments
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What Most People Still Get Wrong About Covid Management(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
2 points by acdanger 3y ago|0 comments
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The World’s Oldest Glaciers Are Buried Under South African Gold(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by acdanger 3y ago|0 comments
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See what it’s like to dig a tunnel 100 feet below a city(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by acdanger 3y ago|1 comments
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by acdanger 3y ago
First sentence: “ Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).”
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by acdanger 3y ago
likely referring to Stratospheric aerosol injection: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_inject...
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Biomedical labs are bleeding more horseshoe crabs with little accountability(npr.org)
7 points by acdanger 3y ago|0 comments
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by acdanger 3y ago
Anyone else getting SSL errors visiting archive.is on Firefox?
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by acdanger 3y ago
It’s possible to convert a shapefile to Mapbox Vector Tiles, convert those to PMTiles and host them in a bucket in just a three commands.

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