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Wheel barrows were known to the Han Chinese 2000 years ago. It's not bicycle science!

The Montgolfier brothers preceded the Wright brothers in human flight by 100 years. Cayley had essentially already invented the modern aeroplane by 1799, and was flying gliders by …

Grok 4.5 made Cartman a frog.

Where I grew up farmers "muckspreading" would occasionally foul the locality. It was gross but after a day or two it would be back to normal. I've been to Phu Quoc. One or two of t…

He feels vindicated. What a sociopath.

That's just the usual US marketing bollocks. Whether it is cured with nitrates or with celery extract, bacon is definitely cured. If it is not cured, it is not bacon. I am more sym…

Free for who

We should have been bringing home the bacon. Instead we brought home thebacon.

The USA prefers soft annexation. Annexation lite. A kinder gentler annexation. Preferably somewhere with a suitably powerless population like Greenland or Gaza. Randomly shooting u…

Yes, lime kilns use the reverse process -- heating chalk to drive off the CO2.

Who can decide the precedence of a louse and a flea?

Carbon capture is already done at scale because CO2 is commercially valuable. The proposed carbon storage is permanent in the form of carbonates. This is a variant of the Solvay pr…

You don't necessarily have to bury the plants to sequester the carbon. A lot of oceanic carbon just sinks to the bottom and is eventually covered over, especially near estuaries th…

The vast interior of the world's oceans are a nutrient desert. It has been proposed to grow algae by spreading silt, the same way that Saharan winds do.

It's almost like you cut the head off a snake, and it grows back a slimier and more poisonous head.

And attempted to hive off the best teams into a super league, even though this would have destroyed national leagues across the continent.

Then you would have two corrupt organizing bodies. Something similar happened with FIDE (chess) in the Kasparov years. I believe FIDE is still headquartered in a dodgy dictatorship…

Yes, it's a stretch to believe that UEFA is objecting strictly on a point of principle. UEFA seems to think people have forgotten that they tried to buy off top teams from the nati…

Right, IIRC they basically banned everybody in Trinidad from FIFA and relocated the HQ. It didn't help that Chuck Blazer just looked like a pedophile. Not sure if it's a coincidenc…

Even in the festering pit of slime that is FIFA, Infantino stands out for his festeringdom and slimitude.

Yes, and when Blatter was investigated for corruption both he and Platini, president of UEFA, were banned. This was barely 10 years ago, it's not ancient history. Platini is still …

This is UEFA we are talking about. Remember that when (FIFA president) Blatter was investigated for corruption, (UEFA president) Platini was also banned.

FIFA has been spectacularly corrupt since at least thd 1970s, and UEFA is not far behind. When Blatter was kicked out of FIFA for corruption, the USA provided a legal venue for the…

To be fair, China and Russia participate in the fantasy.