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We know that Plato and co did a lot of chatting about the shape at least. Since the period of Egypt that these old dice come from is the Greek-influenced Ptolemaic, and Rome was pretty big on its Greek culture anyway, I wonder if it started use there?

The UK, as is often the case with these things, uses a horrible cursed halfway house system. I have every digital clock I own set to 24h time but know that I would get weird looks if I made plans with someone to meet at 18

I think his interest is just in seeing what he can make by himself with what he can gather from nature, rather than specifically in replicating neolithic technology. In that framing it makes sense to push at the limits of what he can do even if it's not the most practical way to solve that problem. He knows he can run a furnace and make neolithic-level things with it, so why not see if he can go for something a bit harder? Historically it was solved with a bunch of teamwork, sure, but he's not trying to re-enact history.

The entire West Country is fuming at both the notion of cider being merely an autumn drink and also it being compared to pumpkin spice

The numbers for Germany do often look weird after reuinification. In 2011 Germany realised it actually had 1.5 million fewer people than it thought it did. It hadn't actually done a full census since reunification, and over 24 years in the west and 30 years in the east plus the difficulty of combining the two sets of records, errors built up

Germany's population has actually increased by almost four million in the past ten years, so that number of new apartments seems pretty reasonable at the moment. There will always be some homes that need replaced each year too, if they become unsuitable for living or are converted to non-residential purposes

I suppose 30 years of mostly declining population has probably significantly reduced the pressure on the housing supply

Need to get this through the Turkish parliament and also get Hungary to stop fucking about first. Hopefully the Polish elections will result in the EU being able to put more pressure on Hungary

Fuck Thatcher, but I'm not sure that one really belongs on that list. Defending territory against a foreign invasion is not generally considered an unreasonable thing to do

Yes, I know. I have read the thread. I'm talking about your comment in which you said that you don't count Netanyahu's government.

So then why not say that in the prior comment? You just said "I don't count Netanyahu's government" in response to an article about Netanyahu's government

Could be shoes that only get worn on special occasions. I have a pair of ghillie brogues that I only wear a few times a year

Edit: wait, never mind, I see now that OP meant shoes in general, not a specific pair

Mate it's pretty fucking wild to ask when Israel funded Hamas and only then say you don't count the actual Israeli government of most of the last 30 years

The article doesn't say it's bad that China has invested in it, just that the near-monopoly is risky for the rest of the world. The obvious conclusion is that we need more investment elsewhere, not less in China

If it's getting all of the carbon for that methane from atmospheric carbon dioxide then it should at least be neutral. The production should, if that is how it's working, remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as burning the product would release. This would make it a hell of a lot better than fossil extraction since that's taking carbon not currently in the atmosphere and then releasing it in to the atmosphere

China's state grid corporation said investment in power may reach 13.7 trillion dollars (100 trillion yuan) by 2060. This number is not a real thing currently happening, and even if it was it'd be spread out over almost four entire decades. It's also just investment in power generally, not in reaching net zero.

Why Aunt May ever looked like an octogenarian is beyond me.

The protagonist was a 27 year old actor playing a schoolkid so I have to assume that everyone in the Raimi universe ages about 75% faster than we do

"We're rich!"

A good example of this is that the Crimean war happened right in the middle of what is generally considered the Pax Britannica

Only Gaza. About half of the population of Palestine is the in the West Bank, and Hamas doesn't run that