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481.
by growlist 7y ago
They also have incredible underground aqueducts that have been maintained for thousands of years. Smart people.
482.
by growlist 7y ago
'In one of the most iconic scenes in British television comedy, Trigger, the butt of so many ‘Only Fools and Horses’ jokes, proudly reveals that he has used the same road sweeping brush for his entire career. “This old broom”, he says
483.
by growlist 7y ago
Come on now, that's the exceptional case here.
484.
by growlist 7y ago
Live shipping should be banned.
485.
by growlist 7y ago
I really wish Arianespace were smashing it like SpaceX. No doubt they have great engineers, if they could just be let off the leash a little.
486.
by growlist 7y ago
It was kind of a joke but come on, Arianespace's leaders have been pretty salty about SpaceX in public so clearly there is some jealousy. And as I understand it most of the oldspace launch providers aren't significantly cheaper th
487.
by growlist 7y ago
I've kicked this about in my head also, because what geek wouldn't love to do it? I've come to the conclusion though that unless one is already a business and engineering genius with the luck of the gods, it's a ridiculo
488.
by growlist 7y ago
> (SpaceX will probably end up shutting down due to lack of lift demand, hence their polluting the sky with micro satellites now.) I guess morale is low at Arianespace these days ;)
489.
by growlist 7y ago
Let me guess: the alternative is something to do with high taxes, mass immigration, and diversity, and ignoring that troublesome thing called democracy when the proles dare vote against the unquestionably superior and enlightened perspectiv
490.
by growlist 7y ago
As do plenty of non-elite countries. What's your point? The Aztecs, for example, were practising human sacrifice until the Europeans pitched up. And in Papua New Guinea they were still eating people within living memory. I could also m
491.
by growlist 7y ago
> Requirement meetings, regression test meetings, project status meetings, fill this standard Word document with details, fill that Excel document with metrics etc etc etc ...most of which never gets used for anything that contributes to
492.
by growlist 7y ago
> Neat island, but I can assure you South Americans and Africans would have no issues invading it by boat. > It would be a decent stronghold though for awhile I bet, but in the end desperation would lead to its discovery and pillaging
493.
by growlist 7y ago
You also need to look at the Eastern market - Chinese/Middle East markets are apparently what is driving the outrageous size of BMW's grills, and many other extreme design elements currently en vogue.
494.
by growlist 7y ago
I love it. It's like one of the 'all sharp angles and super futurey and stuff!' cars from an 80s sci-fi film, where they've taken the body off a real car and welded up some ludicrous replacement. I mean why not FFS - hav
495.
by growlist 7y ago
> "alt-right" in vehicular form, it would look something like this Strange, I thought the alt-right meme was that brutalist design was a Marxist demoralisation psy-op; surely an alt-right design would be more akin to the Beetle
496.
by growlist 7y ago
Same here. Weeks' worth of emails imploring me to remove my negative review.
497.
by growlist 7y ago
caveat emptor
498.
by growlist 7y ago
Well then, here's another reason it's false: there is huge variation within the West, with the US for example having more than twice as much co2 emissions per capita as the UK.
499.
by growlist 7y ago
> Western countries This West/rest dichotomy seems a bit outdated. Is China the West? oil-rich Middle East? Both of those have high emissions per capita - in the case of the Middle East, some of the highest in the world.
500.
by growlist 7y ago
Difficult to see many hungry migrants making it to Tristan da Cunha, for example.
501.
by growlist 7y ago
> there is people beheading others with machetes in tribal-like wars I prefer the society that does not end up with machetes, but there are maniacs out there that would argue that even expressing such a preference is 'problematic&#x
502.
by growlist 7y ago
Start lifting :)
503.
by growlist 7y ago
We have a few of these plastic ski slopes in the UK and I have to say on a cold, wet winter evening - which is often when people visit them, getting a bit of practice in for a ski holiday in the Alps - they can be bloody miserable. And from
504.
by growlist 7y ago
I've no problem with women having control over their bodies, and legalised abortion spares us the horror of backstreet alternatives. It needs to be there. But let's also be clear: if there weren't something horrific about abo
505.
by growlist 7y ago
Tinnitus is weird. When I first had it I heard it all the time, it ruined my enjoyment of music, and I felt I was cursed for life. These days I can go for weeks without even realising it's there. I'd literally forgotten about it u
506.
by growlist 7y ago
Alcohol is a big one, at least here in the UK. From my observations many people, including plenty of middle class professionals with families, live their daily lives in a temporary state of non-inebriation between drinking sessions. That th
507.
by growlist 7y ago
So many words, yet so little said.
508.
by growlist 7y ago
one man's terrorist... you know the rest.
509.
by growlist 7y ago
I've never heard a pregnant woman refer to her unborn child as "my foetus".
510.
by growlist 7y ago
My pet hate is technical videos in nasally valley-speak: excessive vocal fry, dramatic pauses, and glottal stops. I literally cannot listen to them and have to go to other sources.

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