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• Commented on Shrinking the world
  The trend in cost reduction continued to the present day: shipping containerization and outsourcing to sweatshops in the developing world kicked the floorboards out from under the cost of manufacturing, which in turn made the present century's "fast fashion" possible....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  The British State tried to stop people nominally their subjects from dispossessing others once and, seeing the outcome, resolved never to do that again? :-)...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Imagine asking Charlie why he wrote Empire Games instead of Stand On Zanzibar; part of the response might be "someone already wrote Stand On Zanzibar nearly 50 years ago." You're probably right that Blazing Saddles wouldn't get made today, and...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Aaargh. It was supposed to be a link to your comment at #901....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  And your allotments are in...? (a refresher of paws' point, for those who'd like one)...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  If an Irish man finds it funny, then your, um, "regional stricture" does not apply, does it? Where was the Irish man, again? (I am beginning to suspect that EC's request for you to stop determinedly ignoring context should apply...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  So if a third person tells you to knock off telling that one, will you stop until another Irish person tells it to you? Do you feel free to tell every every joke you hear, or does it have to...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  Ireland in turn ... there was a lot of invading back and forth between Scotland and Ireland after the picts: the most recent wave in Ireland were the Scottish settlers in the 17th century who the Ulster protestants are descended...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Like the current Germans, it should be taught about, so that it doesn't happen again, & we learn about denigrating attitudes to "others". .... Very old joke: .. "What do you call a dish of Mashed Spuds, Boiled spuds, Roasted...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  @ 330 ... Who then backed democracy against a fascist coup, yes? Which says something about how that particular monarch felt about fascism and nothing about how fascists feel about monarchy, which was the actual point....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  HINT: It's much easier to remember the Dublin original names { Amiens St / Kingsbridge / Westland Row ... & Harcourt St } Is it? For who? They were renamed the year after your trip; I suspect those who've spent...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Or Franco, who passed a law that his chosen successor would be king - and who picked the heir to the throne as that successor....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  amckinstry; sorry, I know of him from elsewhere and had a brain-fart that not everyone would know who I meant....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  O you don’t remember correctly. I was unsure whether I correctly remembered from the several previous times Greg told that story whether he was arriving from Belfast*; I am extremely sure about the existence of historic housing discrimination in Northern...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Re. "Dev" - correct, but, just the same, I will never, ever forget the challenge I was met with on arriving at Amiens St station for the first time: "Do you have any contraceptives on your person?" { 1965 }...
• Commented on Minor updates
  Back in the early days of the Web the question of copyright got hashed around quite a lot. The general conclusion was that if you make it available via the Web then you've created an implied license for anyone to...
• Commented on Minor updates
  Even the ones where the story continues "and then they declared war on us" (as this one does)?...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Once again I urge people to read at least Altemeyer's The Authoritarians, or pay a fraction of attention to the real-world-right-in-front-of-you existence proofs this doesn't work. It's a dominance hierarchy! Not being consistent is part of the point! We know...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Also: am I the only one who finds it strange that "red" now means right-wing, as opposed to communist? And the explanation why is the stupidest thing: it's a consequence of the ubiquity of the Bush-Gore electoral map running up...
• Commented on Place your bets
  And on re-read: you don't have 2.4x2m of blank wall? I'm suggesting storing it standing on end....
• Commented on Place your bets
  a trailer of that weight needs more than an ordinary car licence (and more than an ordinary car!) They absolutely do not. To both assertions. 1400kg is the maximum weight; a Fiat 500 isn't going to be able to manage...
• Commented on Place your bets
  1: who said anything about hiring? If you've three grand and 2.4x2m of clear wall to store it against, owning an Ifor Williams trailer (a UK company, even!) should be pretty straightforward. 2: https://trailermedic.co.uk/trailer-hire/, see the 'GD84' column on the...
• Commented on Place your bets
  2: It carries vast amounts, which about twice a year, I REALLY NEED There is technology to help solve that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_(vehicle)...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  I think we're one of the few that escape, actually: Detective Malone in the Horror at Red Hook is the only reference to Irishness I can think of and he's a standard issue protagonist with some WB Yeats-y nonsense stirred...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Exactly. Of the two teachers who taught maths to my graduating year, the one who deserved the award for best work wasn't the one who shepherded a small group of high achievers to excellent marks (though he was excellent and...
• Commented on Place your bets
  You're asking people to drop a topic you brought up, apparently because you're getting pushback of the mildest possible tone. Perhaps it may be worth reflecting on why you're getting that pushback?...
• Commented on Place your bets
  you can't pay teachers for results The shiver that went up my spine at the suggestion. For a start: define 'results' in the context of educating children, with regard to Goodhart's law....
• Commented on Place your bets
  My point in #1628, where I described it as extreme callousness is that the strategy treated soldiers as expendable resources, like ammunition. There is a lot of other evidence that was the case, too. Doesn't all strategy treat soldiers as...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Quantum of Nightmares
  That's missing an important consideration: does he want to be nice?...
• Commented on Place your bets
  What does a country that tries to only be a slight ass hole do when next to a bigger country that wants to militarily dominate the countries "around it" and has more money to build stuff with. And is enought...