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Essentially that is part the 'male sedation hypothesis'. Due to the amount of incels or men who aren't really in relationships or even work these days, they should be causing signi…

I agree this is an excellent book on the subject of nuclear weapons, also very well written and researched.

The Shinkansen runs the fastest Nozomi service about every ten minutes throughout the day at around 5 trains per hour on the most popular routes like Tokyo to Osaka, then during pe…

I would say dating apps make it much easier for queer people to find others to date as that was always a relatively limited pool to begin with so location based dating apps would r…

There's different types of work, the on duty time you describe is what I would call being paid to be available to work during certain hours. My work is like this, I do 9-5 or simil…

Actually it turns out the scammers just use targeted marketing data like any other business to find out who to target with their scams. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/scamm…

Just waiting for the world police to go in an arrest them and hold them accountable for their crimes, I'm sure they'll get around to it after they have finished arresting all those…

In Britain at least, a lot of the young men who fought didn't actually have a vote at that time, "Only 58% of the adult male population was eligible to vote before 1918. An influen…

I think many police departments already use business intelligence systems to determine where units will be deployed based on various inputs such as intelligence reports, previous p…

Same in Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crow... Banks are down so petrol stations and supermarkets are basically closed. People can't check in to …

I've seen a lot of conspiracy types speculate that Just Stop Oil is actually a creation of the Oil companies as a controlled opposition group to basically make the climate proteste…

that's the great male sedation hypothesis

It's worth pointing out that this is authored by Stephen Chen who is a bit of a joke in defence news circles with a never ending supply of articles about how China has all these am…

It's also good for getting heavy metals out of the blood too.

Do they not have the hand held baskets there? In most other countries I have been too in Europe, Asia, Australia the supermarkets have both wheeled trolley and hand held baskets or…

I have seen a bit more criticism of electric cars of late in the press and on social media, particularly in the UK, but I think that's just because of more widespread use amongst t…

Pilots chasing down V-1s who shot at them from directly behind would risk immediately flying at high speed into the wall of shrapnel created by blowing up essentially a large power…

They are already doing this in the EU now ( https://www.drive.com.au/news/new-cars-will-stop-drivers-fro... ), albeit not with actual speed restriction as far as I know, but just b…

There's a growing cottage industry of companies that will take older classic cars and convert them into electric cars. Obviously they don't have the range or safety of a modern ele…

I also just got back from Bangkok and frankly crossing busy streets is one of the worst aspects of the place, it really makes it very difficult to easily get around on foot and you…

They were definitely flying drones over Iran in the recent past and probably still do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid... Also there is the 'RQ180' that…

Interestingly in Japan their manufacturers all voluntarily agreed to limit their domestically produced cars to 180km/h (112mph), which has been in place for decades now.

As an Australian who did vote in this referendum, this is more or less my take as well. To me personally this one felt like it came out of nowhere, had very poor communication abou…

> Although no state is openly attempting to automate its nuclear weapons systems What about the Perimeter/Dead Hand system from the Soviet Union/Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Apparently it was beef wellington pie https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/10/victo...