Tricone RC
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Not a first world problem at all, god speed patt
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Excuse me it's starperson
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Groote from nether fecker
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I'd be an unapologetic socialist if I thought it could ever be established without massacring all the Reactionaries. I'm in no place to have a decent discussion on the nitty gritty details of Marx but IMO that's pointless anyway, since you basically can't ever set it up. So in the absence of that option I'm a card-carrying Centrist Dad, with a heavy dose of
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There seems to be a very sharp age cutoff in watch ownership, at least in people around me. I am 29 and have always worn a watch. About two thirds of people I know the same age or older also have watches. But I don't know a single person more than a year below me in age with a watch. They all use their phones like some kind of Victorian timepiece.
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For a while I thought shit like cryptocurrency could be an example of "eco-economic decoupling" i.e. the detachment of the economy from physical resource use and, consequently, its environmental footprint. Our economy needs to do this eventually, so it'd be fantastic if we could all pay our bills by sitting at home in our undies doing bullshit with bitcoin. Turns out when you look at the electricity use it's basically more of the same -
Or just floating in space, since the Earth, Sun and indeed galaxy will have moved in the intervening time What spatial frame of reference does time travel abide by? Answer that one ATHEISTS
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This stuff (specifically the Blanche) Can't be arsed writing a poncey review (partly cos I'm drunk off it) but it's quite nice innit
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Nah its North America centric, you normally find euro folk (incl british isles) in the World Music section, at least in the shitty HMV I still occasionally wander into while my wif's getting her hair cut
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is it always the current year?
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Two books: And the Birds Rained Down - Jocelyne Saucier On the Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin Both related somewhat since they both involve two elderly fellas living secluded lives in remote spots. Both are set in places that are rarely covered in fiction but also just happen to be areas I know very well, so I enjoy that aspect. Plots are almost inverse of eachother, one only starting in melancholy while the other descends into crushing bleakness. Not telling you which tho innit
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my two fav UKL's, altho I'll never forgive her for the mother of all Deus ex Machinas at the end of Dispossessed
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I thought you fellas were all ironic genre snobs?
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House is ok
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Yep the shit an impactor actually hits will have a huge impact (lol) on the environmental effects. Compare Chixulub with Manicouagan in Quebec, both craters with roughly the same size. The Manicouagan impactor hit a bit pile of bullshit granites, so it didn't pump much into the atmosphere save for silicate dust, which would have been crap for a couple of years but caused nary a ripple in the wider sedimentary record. Whereas the Chixulub impactor hit limestones and evaporites, essentially vapourising the lot into CO2 and SO2 which caused all sorts of long-term knock-on bollox in the atmosphere and oceans.
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Article 50
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potential extra-solar asteroid coming our way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtCkvEHTzEE
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nay that'll be Montagne d'Or
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knobbly kneez
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stupid first world achievements and successes
Tricone RC replied to eugene's topic in General Banter
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sweet I love that Herring podcast but not listened lately on the music note didn't limmy write his own theme?
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I get the impression their hands are tied. They can't realistically do anything that would threaten the stability of the regime since this would lead to the biggest refugee crisis since, I dunno, ages ago, all within spitting distance of Communist Party HQ. So they can try to nudge NK with sanctions but can't do anything that would run the risk of bringing the regime down. So I doubt, for example, they would pull the plug on NK's oil supply For the very same reason China has a huge amount to lose in the event of an actual war on the peninsula
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