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First time I've encountered a site blocked by the work firewall, funnily enough.

The author of the post is wrong to say there's no famous cows, see the Craven Heifer [0] for example. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_Heifer

Without convection or conduction?

Coronation Street - a popular TV soap in the UK had a storyline about this last year [0]. As the storyline played out, the character chose alternative therapies before finally tryi…

Also would make cancelling your cards harder if they were lost along with your phone?

Some of these are beautiful. Spent a lot of time looking at them & the trees while riding up the south side of Coll de Sóller.

The electoral register is relatively open. You can view it in most public libraries, town hall etc. [0]. You can even buy it in some cases [1]. [0] https://www.gov.uk/electoral-reg…

Ha, not too dissimilar to a floppy disc really.

> over 100 people die every day in traditional vehicle accidents. Which isn't acceptable either. To some degree, people look towards autonomous vehicles as a way of reducing the nu…

I'm reminded of Dougal Adam's fictional band, Disaster Area [0]. >Disaster Area was a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones and was generally regarded as not only the …

Yeah, it's probably a function of it being a larger laptop. & it's, of course, subjective. I saw this typing on my 2016 MacBook Pro, & I personally love the giant trackpad.

Looking at the Macbook in front of me & back to this laptop on my screen & the trackpad looks absolutely tiny. Large trackpads are good! Seems odd that it's so small.

I agree, two completely different types of suppression, each quite scary.

Your experience does not necessarily reflect the reality of it [0]. [0] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cyclists-dont-b...

A good local bike shop is invaluable, especially if they have a good workshop.

This is a good analysis of the situation. >(no idea who the other bloke is) Jonathan Bartley [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Bartley

Reminds me of this blog post [0] about a guy who lost his Twitter @N. [0] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...

Also, surely that needs to be more accurately described as 'safest car ever tested /for its occupants/'.

I've found that with blocking every account I see a promoted tweet from, I barely see any any more.

We have ANPR[0] in the UK. Makes it very easy to follow vehicles around the country on main roads. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...

Were that the case, there's unlikely to be the resources to act on every crime. However, having some 'dirt' on everyone means that it'd be easy to take action on any particular 'pr…

There's no such thing as road tax, roads are paid for out of general taxation [0]. What they're thinking is vehicle excise duty, which doesn't apply to all vehicles, so that point …

That's the difference between an acronym & an initialism. An acronym is pronounced as a word, but an initialism is just the letters (usually because it cannot be pronounced).

Usually it's pressing the down-volume & the power button at the same time.