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Wonder how they will classify 'cousins' given its unfortunate prevalence in the UK

Fun idea for a book.

Excellent, thank you. This had be causing me headaches!

Passport equivalents go back to 1350BC

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Just what i needed to read today, thanks.

MS?

Definitely. I mean check out some of the recent winners of the US National Debate Championships. https://youtu.be/fmO-ziHU_D8?t=34

I do not think successive UK governments have had enough of a long term strategy to do this consciously (though I would love to find out it was a deliberate), but I think the Batte…

I used to work in a small hotel as a student. Most of my job was taking guests' luggage up 4 flights of extremely narrow stairs of the historic building. The only guest who ever ti…

> Buying bananas has no relevance to climate Can you explain why? All the bananas in my UK supermarket are flown from Africa. > minimise use of cars and planes

X = 1 is not exponential growth

> wearing masks not true at least in Stockholm

Maybe it is not particularly high crime because police get 28% of the budget.

> Is it fish caught in that same day like you can get in any Greek taverna in the Cyclades? Yes >Or frozen fish brought in from half a continent away? You can get that too. The neg…

> There's net migration into Poland Wrong. Poland -0.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... > That image of Polan…

> Good luck with that. Since the Brexit vote net-migration for the UK is over half a million people, your native Poland is still suffering huge negative net-migration. "Despite Bre…

Can't help but look at the density of regions like India and think it will brew trouble. I wonder what the correlation is between population density and violence, I imagine quite s…