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This must never be changed

I am quite fascinated by the TTRPG Eclipse Phase's depiction of humans in an extremely high-tech future. Why physically travel between planets when you could just email over a copy of your mind, have it stuck in a rented body, and then download the copy's memories once it has done whatever you needed done? There's absolutely no requirement for your new body to be a human-shaped one either, provided you can maintain your composure while being in such a different physical form. Some people get really weird with it, others think that it's abominable. There's a mobster who puts her enemies' minds into fish and keeps them in a tank.

I'm not so keen on everything about the setting, and I've never gotten a chance to play a game of it so I have no idea how the mechanics are, but there are cool ideas in there

That's kind of them! But you will probably need to replace that car in the future

I'm not trying to tell you that you absolutely must learn manual. Whether or not it makes sense to do so basically just depends on your personal circumstances. I learned manual, but I live in a country in which automatic gearboxes were pretty rare until quite recently and I enjoy driving (much as I support replacing most driving with public transport). I just wanted to bring up the second hand market as something to consider

One other thing to add that I don't see mentioned yet: if you can drive a manual, you have more options when buying second-hand cars. How many more options will vary depending on where you are, but if cost is a significant concern then it might let you get a much better deal

Apparently our national men's team is ranked 48th, in between fellow basketball titans Senegal and Sweden

I guess we don't really have a British equivalent that is a household name recognisable to non-fans in the way the Williams sisters are. We've got a few men who fit the bill, but that obviously doesn't work for the question. If you need to name a woman that everyone immediately knows is really god damn good at tennis, one of the Williamses is probably gonna be the go-to regardless of where you ask

That's probably the best bet for us regular folk, but the problem is that she probably knows that she really doesn't need to go anywhere near as hard as she could to get every serve past us

The nature of being a bunch of smaller countries is that you have to actually take the time to make sure you're working together on something. There's not a single government to direct it. There will be negotiations.

However in the meantime, support continues. France is supplying intel, and Mirage 2000 jets that France gave to Ukraine deployed in the last couple of days. The UK sent £750,000,000 on Friday. The EU approved about €200,000,000 in contracts for Czech companies to help rebuild damaged things in Ukraine.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/survey-results/daily/2019/07/12/ce84b/1

Other fun stuff from the same poll:

• Scots are the least likely to think they could do it, and also the least likely to say "don't know". We know where we stand apparently
• 2% of 65+ year old people think they could do it, although 2% is getting well into the territory where it could just be insincere answers

Probably not a tonne of people responding to a British polling agency's survey play basketball, but otherwise yeah. If we go by viewrship figures for the men's final at Wimbledon, a little over an eighth of the country watches a game of tennis once a year

Moby > Morby

To satisfy my own curiosity:

Non-state territories like Puerto Rico and Guam are not included in either country's numbers due to not being depicted in the image, save for Washington DC because that one is in the image

You could honestly just ask the ghost via the oiuja board and it would be roughly as meaningful as a polygraph

If you accept a lack of gears, a belt drive instead of a chain probably simplifies the most difficult part of actually making it. Best pick somewhere with good roads though, since you're definitely not making pneumatic tyres or a pump to fill them with

Did these Ukrainians vote for him?

I haven't checked all of them, but I looked up the first three receivers listed by Eutelsat Oneweb for "land mobility" usage. One was made in the US and UK, one was South Korean, and the one intended for military usage is Spanish. I guess South Korea is not NATO, but that's about the NATO-est non-NATO country there is

Categories of traditional Scottish dances (and maybe other traditions, but I only know the Scottish ones)

If it's any reassurance, leader of the UK Trump fan club Nigel Farage is getting shit from even the Conservatives for defending Trump's tantrum during Zelenskyy's visit

The Austrian Typhoons are all the earliest model and Austria chose not to upgrade any of them, so they're approaching 25 years old and a less mature design than everyone else's Typhoons

Gripen is specifically built to be cheap and easy to maintain (for a fighter jet, of course). It seems like it'd be a great choice for Ukraine

I honestly don't think Putin needs to have anything on Trump to explain this behaviour. The man just likes strongman rulers, pure and simple