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From glancing at the numbers it looks pretty similar, but there's been a huge drop in births in California in the last 10-20 years so it's probably the last few years where that wi…

It's an odd thing, brutalism is almost universally hated by the general public but there's a seemingly endless stream of people who are willing to wax lyrical about why stained con…

By the by, one of the people specifically pointed out in this article was apparently paying a total tax bill of 17 million dollars against a net worth of 2 billion, and whatever ti…

It's a very common thing, it's called gubbing in the circles I know it from. There are services called betting exchanges that essentially facilitate peer-to-peer gambling, they mak…

That's not the basis the award is decided on, I presume it may have been in the early years of the award, but generally it's given as a lifetime achievement kind of thing - the rec…

Not who you were replying to, but I think I understand where you're coming from so I just wanted to contribute my point of view. I think it's becoming more and more clear that the …

If it's actually only a 2.7% decline in employment relative to baseline then the increase in total wages paid would have to be very small to make this a bad policy. I agree that a …

Winged and legged are still pronounced like that too, at least by some. Interestingly, as an addition to the parent comment, there's a certain point in time where a lot of -ed word…

The study in Wales and a second study in the US were about herpes zoster (shingles), they both seem to support a link to Alzheimer's and, from what I read, the second study mention…

Do you know if there have been any of these kinds of recreations done on contemporary languages/dialects/accents, or I guess even created ones, to test the accuracy of these method…

Regular rail is ruinously expensive in this country too, East West Rail, which is an unelectrified Even local tram projects with distances in the single digits can cost hundreds of…

Even from that point of view this isn't as simple an equation as you might think, old people dying is probably a positive for the economy (not an economist, don't quote me on that)…

It seems a bit of a weird political move for Ukraine to draw attention to dubious post Second World War territorial annexations, a large amount of the territory of the country was …

This seems to be pseudo-history at best, the saying is centuries old in some form or another - Wiktionary has "it never rains, but it pours" at 1772, and even then it was being giv…

As far as I'm aware Japanese immigration policy for skilled workers is relatively lenient, it's just not generally considered an attractive place to migrate to from places that gen…

The UK and Ireland impose passport controls on the EU (Common Travel Area) which won't change, with regards to customs checks we're engaging in a bit of legal theatre to claim that…

The plan in the UK IIRC is to mix hydrogen (10-20% I think) into the existing mains gas supply to lower the carbon intensity somewhat, in the long term though we're trying to repla…

Something like 60% of the UK rail network is unelectrified and recent electrification projects have been ruinously expensive, we need something to fill in the gaps and hydrogen def…

That's basically the plan for the UK network going forward, electrification has been ludicrously expensive so most of our rail network (in miles) is serviced by diesel trains, even…

Old English had a letter called thorn that would eventually be replaced with the modern th or a y (ye olde is just said the old). The y^e form was apparently used for the King Jame…

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That was in the midst of the Industrial Revolution and during a time when the UK also had direct and indirect control of exploitable colonies, I don't think the debt to GDP figures…

Hardcore History covers some important bits of the Roman Republic, including Caesar's conquest of Gaul, that episode is currently free too - https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-hist…