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I am none of these. I'm in my late 50's and have been paying income tax since I was 16. Sure, rescind my voting rights ... I'd like all my 40+ years taxes back please then.

The latest results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration, which involves UCL researchers, combined four methods for measuring the expansion of the universe for the first …

It's from the Disney classic 'Dumbo'. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Pink_Elephants

It's a nice bit of prose but I am struggling to see what this has to do with boredom. Staring out of window looking at scenery is for all intents and purposes doing something. This…

Hikaru Nakamura commented on Chess960 (or 'Freestyle' chess as chess.com is desperately trying to re-brand it) and said that as a 'spectator' sport he felt that only the high-elo c…

They are both equivalent. Scratch-built is perfectly cromulant. My father used to talk about 'Scratch-building' his WWII dioramas and model vehicles/tanks. While you could use a ph…

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I like to leave my platonic solids in the toilet bowl.

Hmm I wonder if an Ox would be exempt from the new congestion cameras they've just set up. I can see some exemptions for commercial HGVs so maybe they might come under that.

A web app that uses Python to create Celtic knots and it's really fun!

The expression is "work in-progress"

As non-MLB watcher, I have only a passing knowledge of the game why does it matter if the strike-out is swinging or not? To use a Cricket analogy you don't differentiate if or what…

> If a ninth planet exists in our solar system, scientists say this telescope would find it in its first year. Why? I read the article and it wasn't clear to me what makes this tel…

You should post this on twistypuzzle.com this is right up their street.

That was a great read. Thanks

I assume you're referring to this article https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/11/20/the-last-ridge-racer/ contact Tony (the arcade blogger) he's a nice guy to deal with - his book is al…

Not so much Check-cashing (although they do exist in some parts of larger cities) and I haven't seen a pawn-shop outside of London in ... forever. We do have Vapeshops (before that…

Yes that is correct > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-54121151 The museum is still pretty much curated as it was, I have been going on and off for the last 40 yea…

By former academic and current author Mark Scarbrough. 'Walking with Dante' is a passion project, taking on Dante's masterwork 'The Divine Comedy' passage-by-passage. "I've taught …

Also (from 7 months ago) see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39834020 The same questions about 'how does this work' were never answered there either (shrug)

> Well-meaning people who remain idle end up sick in the heart and the head, and they often develop exquisite ideologies to excuse their inaction or they get so used to being time …

A Russian national allegedly involved in administering the Phobos ransomware appeared in court in the US after being extradited from South Korea. The man, Evgenii Ptitsyn, 42, was …