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  • Commented on A fistful of tropes
    It's a tough one - Tchaikovsky is knocking off the weird tropes pretty frequently as well. Big Dumb Object is the most obvious, I liked his more recent one that riffed off Beowulf. Was going to say Outside Context Problem,...
  • Commented on Summer webcomics
    Ironically these days I’ve mostly moved to actual comics/graphic novels over webcomics, particularly the independents rather than the Marvel/DC stuff. Greg Rucka and the Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips combo have been a delight. I’m also really liking the ongoing Rivers of...
  • Commented on Pass or Fail
    It’s likely that you just don’t notice the buildup. Cooking bacon is a good example of generating steam + vapourised fats in western society. Most of it goes in the range hood, but some will go in the air, especially...
  • Commented on Pass or Fail
    You’ve never tried cooking Indian food then. You dry fry the spices in a hot skillet then add oil and sauces, which causes a percentage to vapourise with the steam and coats the room over time. Long term the environment...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    The point most of the Americans are missing is you don't have to know "where to go" or "who does the best deli" in the UK. You just rock up to an ordinary motorway services in the middle of nowhere...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    Not quite. The Crown in the person of the Monarch was funded from the Civil List, now the Sovereign Grant Act since 2011, which is set at 15% of the revenue from the Crown Estates - the Treasury keeps the...
  • Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
    Yes. And there's a Royal Air Force, a Royal Navy, a Royal Marines and a Royal Artillery. Plus the Guards and the Household Cavalry, and a bunch of Royal regiments. Yes, it's largely in name only, with all forces under...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    All cars have significantly increased curb weights over time, mostly because they're physically bigger - compare and contrast the original mini with the remake as an obvious example, but a 90s civic and a 20s civic are equally wildly different...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    Speaking of Muslims, I wish I could find one to talk to about Islam - I need primary source research so the Muslims 9000 years from now come across correctly. Reach out to your local mosque, or if there...
  • Commented on Place your bets
    Yeah, the flood of AI generated short story trash is hitting the various magazines hard right now. It's all people trying to make a quick buck with no effort, and the anti-ai detectors are failing hard at identifying it, though...
  • Commented on WTF
    Yes, I realize no river has yet been granted legal or corporate personhood. Yet... No American river perhaps. The Whanganui river in New Zealand was granted legal personhood in 2017, and India did the same for the Ganges a...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Good summary. It is also why it's still near impossible to get a residential fibre connection in central London - none of the players want residential plans interfering with their lucrative commmercial plans, so all the inner city apartment owners...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    Sugar was coming in in 1700, but it was a luxury product, common use in Britain didn’t really take off until the 1770s with widespread production in Cuba and Jamaica, and skyrocketed in the 1800s. In 1780 France’s Saint Domingue...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    The new king is 73, he’s been Charles all his life, he probably wouldn’t register being called by a regal name even if he did want one....
  • Commented on The ends of education
    Actually English isn’t an official language in NZ, only Maori and ESL. It’s obviously the main language but it’s never been put in law. Classic pub quiz question ;)...
  • Commented on The ends of education
    The other thing is that for most of us unless you're mentoring or have a suitably aged young adult around, our views on University Education are woefully out of date. What and how they teach is wildly different compared to...
  • Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
    Train hitting person stats are heavily skewed by suicides, in the UK it’s around 10:1 suicides to genuine accidents. The London underground alone gets 50-100 per year, while Network Rail gets 250 ish. I would expect US stats to be...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Public Transport is yet another of the strange attractors. Nonetheless there is a reasonable justification for high car ownership rates in half the top 10 there - Australia/US/NZ/Iceland/Canada taken as a whole are all reasonably low density populations without particularly...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Also most popular modern SUVs are built monocoque like cars or on car chassis, rather than the traditional 4WD truck style underlying structural chassis and body bolted on top. It means they're much more comfortable rides and handle more like...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Interesting. It looks like the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Belarus Viktor Gulevich might have resigned on Friday, citing an inability to staff a single battalion group to take part in the invasion due to...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    The handheld ones and ones in the mlrs systems are all fairly small. The biggest ones are bomber dropped, Russia very excitedly demoed one in 2007 which is intended to replace the smaller nukes in their arsenal. Apparently it’s also...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Most of the descriptions I've read about the weapons focus on their effects on buildings (things), I'd like to know the effects on people (life). IMO - ignoring effects on people (life) trivializes what's happening. In short, it's not...
  • Commented on Because I am bored ...
    Effectively a small brewery owner decided to go full retard on social media, and then complained about the backlash, then insisted the comment was "misconstrued", and is now arguing that he was really trying to make a statement about domestic...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    It's a long a short o, in our accent it sounds like mouldy, but you wouldn't be particularly wrong pronouncing it like maui...
  • Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
    I'll come back with an idea that should have been possible in Mesopotamia: post offices. As soon as you've got a literate population you've got people wanting to send messages to each other. These definitely existed - Assyria and...
  • Commented on Dead plots
    On the whole no cellphones thing, it's really noticeable when you visit "third world" countries how ubiquitous they are, even in very remote areas. Because those countries either had ravaged infrastructure or no infrastructure at all, they completely skipped all...
  • Commented on Cough Cough
    On the hemisphere question, I can confirm that moving from NZ to the UK, I went from being a very very good innate orienteering navigator to someone who couldn’t find the Thames from Waterloo station. It took about six months...
  • Commented on Cough Cough
    As you say the usual trick is to trade or sell the limited company which is the beneficiary of the trust which is the majority shareholder of the limited company holding the land. Go one of two companies back and...
  • Commented on Cough Cough
    As with all things "what you can get away with". We've had parallel importing for long enough now that a range of things is generally fine, though a suitcase full of ipads probably isn't. NZ is primarily worried about biosecurity....
  • Commented on Cough Cough
    The difference is, rather than being there to enforce the rules of the state, or to protect the property of multi-millionaires, they would be there to protect everyone. No they wouldn't. They would be there to protect their neighbours,...
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