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The first cell with a surviving lineage to get organised. There could have been countless other 'attempts' that, for one reason or another, failed to get established, or died out b…

About a week after that went viral - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-s3...

And even that Bill was refused assent as Parliament asked Queen Anne to do so as they wanted to make some changes to it.

The enteric nervous system certainly evolved first!

I can't remember a time when I didn't know the word, but then I grew up near London so used the Tube regularly as a child.

I like how the phrase "I didn't say she stole my wallet." changes meaning completely depending on which word(s) you emphasise.

People think of "Tuesday night" as the night that falls at the end of Tuesday, however the majority of it from an astronomy perspective tends to fall after midnight (particularly w…

Beat me to it, I was going to go for "X Is All You Need Papers Considered Harmful"

I know at least one affected engineer there.

You do know Boris hasn't been in charge since last July, right?

Oh, they take full responsibility, it always says so in the mails they send out. It's just that taking responsibility doesn't appear to actually result in anything happening.

It's a common term for a stock market in non-English speaking countries.

The success of the "Cursed Child" stage show seems an appropriate parallel here.

The "elves will take our jobs!" scene in Numenor was pretty overt.

Removal of the 45p tax rate would cost around £2bn, which is peanuts compared to the amount spent on the COVID furlough scheme, for example. Calling it "wild tax cuts for the wealt…

The oral traditions of the Klamath people describe the eruption that turned Mount Mazama into Crater Lake 8000 years ago, too.

During the time that scene was set there _was_ no light in the sky, all light came in sideways from the Two Trees.

Right! When they unironically take the "Dey took 'er jerbs!!" line from South Park with zero awareness of how ridiculous it was in context. Why would the Men of Numenor be worried …

The last Queen of England was Anne, after the Acts of Union in 1707 she became Queen of Great Britain, as the position has remained since. Amusingly, Queen Anne was the last female…

Right, and the fact that that wood is destined to be harvested means it's not really long-term carbon storage, either.

It is my understanding that the question was pre-recorded and submitted in advance, the 'fault' seems to lie with the moderator who selected that one to be answered.

Parts of that section are open to the sky, too, so not really under the ground.

An apology that came twenty years too late!

> Proprietary databases like Oracle and SQL Server find value in developing their own drivers. They don't tend to publish their wire protocol. Just to note, MS have long published …