link (story is near the beginning!)

Deviant talked about a movie idea where setting off the sprinklers might actually be a better bet than fire call points when trying to escape a secure hospital in the US.

Assuming 4/10 is 4th October, shouldn’t the day be written like “a.d. IV Non(as)” (4 days until the first kalend)

Was this explanation accurate?

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“Overly verbose text and introductions” - starting to suspect that a lot of these articles weren’t written by a human, which makes you wonder if any of the information is accurate.

see also: NACS (yep that’s a Tesla plug in a standards agreement)

“What are we going to call this railway line? It goes from Hammersmith to the City”

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It’s gotten so good that China might be restricting output to keep the prices high…

(their onshore wind, and pumped hydro storage, are also great success stories, as is the EV industry there)

Had the same email address for 27 years…

His wife took over the channel after Beau was burned-out.

The End of Eternity (Asimov) might be short enough for you, and has some interesting ideas about the implications of time travel.

Make sure to choose lamp fittings that don’t trap the heat.

I typed the URL that was literally printed in the packaging of a [new] Logitech mouse, and the page didn’t exist! Like, how?!‽

Los Caracoles? (west out of Los Andes)

Yeah, not sure the UK Labour party are going to be receptive to a free speech argument, given recent events. If anything, an updated law might make X liable for the real-world problems it causes.

DrinkMate are the main alternative.

• 1st world = US, NATO, and their allies.
• 2nd world = USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact, and their allies.
• 3rd world = everyone else.

e.g. Switzerland would be a 3rd world country by the original definition.

From 2005: “The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said.” - it used to be policy. They wanted to continue.