"We are gentlemen at the World Conker Championships and we don't cheat. I've been playing and practising for decades. That's how I won.

Mr Jakins won the men's competition but lost in the overall final to women's champion Kelci Banschbach, originally from the United States, who only took up the game last year when she moved to Suffolk.

Hmm.

Agreed, but "I wouldn't let him past" sounds a lot like deliberate blocking.

Taking the lane shouldn't be necessary if there are actual bike lanes and you don't need to turn. This sounds like deliberately blocking traffic.

Most turbocharged engines need at least mid-grade due to the higher overall compression. Plenty of Toyotas with a turbo.

Requirements often depend on the type of building occupancy and the chance of fire spread to neighboring buildings.

I do feel that eating a Capri Sun with a fork seems like a better idea than installing a bulging battery in a phone.

It's also torches and everything after the regulator, which run at much lower pressure. At least in NZ

I think it might be because they're connected and disconnected regularly so misconnection is a common problem, even with colour coding. Gas work on houses involves actually putting the fittings on pipe and is done by people who should be concentrating more on that rather than on what they're about to weld/cut.

"Lossless" isn't the term you want; that refers to not lossily compressing the main data. Lossless compression or storage of media is very rare outside of text and sometimes audio, because it ends up so large.

You want to preserve metadata. That applies regardless of how lossy the data compression is.

I've heard flammable gas uses reverse (left hand) thread to prevent cross connection. At least for welding gases in NZ; not sure about natural gas.

A missile is a way to get explosives from point A to point B. We might as well just put explosives on the ISS in the most effective places, removing the need to aim or get a ship/aircraft in the right place at the right time, plus you probably need far less explosive.

Maser said that ocean dumping has historically been a short-sighted solution that’s comparable, he explained, to 80 years ago when it was considered a good idea to dump unused ammunition from World War II in the oceans. “Today, it turns out that the ammunition is corroding and spreads its explosives into the marine environment,” he told SpaceNews.

Munitions dumping was on a much larger scale and much more hazardous compounds. Tens of thousands of tons in close proximity against coastlines.

I imagine reentry is going to effectively incinerate everything except very large chunks of metal, and we regularly deliberately sink steel ships to produce artificial reefs. There's unlikely to be any quantities of plastics or fuel oils left unlike what you get in even minor marine incidents.

Any more advanced disposal plan is going to involve putting a lot more mass into orbit, which means burning a lot more propellant.

The 737 factory is unionized, and it's not having any fewer issues.

They've just acquired a terrible management culture. Even the military and space contracts have gone down the drain.

Internally consistent MAGAs. Good lord, now I've seen everything.

Not to scale. Left triangle shows that the centre tee is actually 80/100⁰, not two right angles. So right triangle is 100+35+45, angle x is 135⁰.

135°.

The non-right-angle is downright cheeky.

If we knew what city/route/service and day, we might be able to get a better idea.

• Sometimes operators declare a 'fare holiday' when everyone rides free, usually as compensation for some major fuckup previously, or for some other PR stunt. Metlink in Wellington doesn't charge on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or New Year's Eve.

• Operators sometimes half-strike and refuse to collect fares.

• The specific route, service, or time of day might be free.

• It's an express service that you can't pay cash on (only fare cards) and it's easier/nicer to tell you to ride for free than to tell you to get the next bus because they don't take cash.

• You might be part of some group (youth, students, elderly) that doesn't have to pay.

• Something is broken and they can't collect fares.

• They don't want to deal with the big banknote you had.

Even disregarding the orientation, people hate auto-next on YouTube, but will tolerate/accept endless scroll for shorts, especially because they're short.

While a problem, this seems out of the community's scope.

Isn't that fundamentally the idea behind 'separate but equal', which has been pretty thoroughly smacked down in the US? It very quickly turned into (always was) separate and not equal.

Doing it in an ironic, performative way for art is one thing, but I'm not sure it's a great blueprint generally.

From article:

He said the term “coconut” was a “well-known racial slur which has a very clear meaning” to the effect that “you may be brown on the outside, but you’re white on the inside. In other words, you’re a race traitor – you’re less brown or black than you should be.”

That's a different definition of 'coconut' than I hear here in NZ. Here it's usually just a (derogatory) term for any Pacific Islander, because they come from where coconuts come from.

Gotta love slang/slurs.