Around 1880 a company in Paris installed a large pneumatic clock system. Anyone could subscribe to the service for a small fee. Schools, railroad stat...
I have an "air clock" It was a leftover in my brother's estate. It doesn't actually "run on air". It runs on changes in temperature in the room which ...
How readily a farmer will embrace new technology (or just a new pitch fork) depends on outstanding debt, size of the farm, value of suitable crops, co...
Since I have the brains that God gave pigs, I asked ChatGPT. Chatty said "Hawthorne Abendsen". I read the book but I don't remember much of it. Unlike...
I put your question into Chatgpt and got an extended answer which sounded sensible. Then I asked it what was the meaning of life. Again, a sensible (n...
I'm in favor of fanning the flames of discontent at oppressive workplaces, but IF rebels are going to do battle with the boss, they should be prepared...
I wasn't working when the woke shit hit the fan. It is certainly the case that there are 'party lines' which employees are expect to follow. Or else. ...
That is a good question, why Alaska is more conservative than average. There are only about 740,000 people there, spread out over an area 3 times the ...
Your experience in the UK is, of course, going to be different than someone living in the US. Below are two maps (neither of them up to the minute cur...
As a general rule, birth rates fall as income rises. This is true in countries that are in 'the heart of the west' and in countries that are periphera...
Novelists have poetic license (issued by a superior court) to add black widow spiders to a novel set in Alaska, if that's what they really want to do....
Don't night hawks also make a brief noise when they dive / 'pounce' on an insect? Kind of a soft whoop sound? Most of the spiders in Spain stay mainly...
Hey, Brendan, all this is overly pessimistic. A whole civilization, like a forest, is both dying and renewing itself, as it must. Because our individu...
I was never much for bat-head biting during concerts. Bats are endangered and we need every one we can get. Besides that, we now know that bat's immun...
@"unimportant" Why are 90% of farmers very right wing? First off, age is a factor. The percentage of Brits engaged in farming is 1.4% of the total wor...
In Flannery O'Connor's novel, Wise Blood, Hazel Motes proclaims his Church Without Christ where "the dead stay dead, the lame don't walk, and the blin...
A painting captures a moment in a narrative. A painted wall is not a narrative moment. Even if there is evidence of a significant event on the surface...
I'm trying to forward the idea that there is a difference between walking around in fear most of the time, on the one hand, and on the other hand havi...
Oh yes, bad things happen to the innocent and the good. And good things happen to the guilty and the bad. "The rain falls on the just and the unjust a...
People who are law abiding and do not perform criminal acts need not have a fear of being punished. In some countries, saying the wrong thing about th...
Just so we are on the same page, I know I am not in the horror movie but I still find horror movies frightening. People who have not put themselves at...
Isn't that what they always were? Anyway, something like trust fund anarchists and sugar plum socialists. By the way, how nice IS $350 Japanese selved...
There are people who continue to commit crimes after they are caught and punished. most people don't commit crimes, so do not experience punishment. I...
See, this is why Don Quixote made no sense to me. American windmills were very hard to attack with a spear, unless you were on a REALLY REALLY tall ho...
Yes, you do know how to have a personal style regarding clothes: you wear basic t-shirts, basic trousers, and basic shoes. Just because your t-shirts ...
Here's some information on the cost of virgin vs recycled cardboard. Virgin raw material is cheaper because the through-put is simpler: cut, mill, and...
Is @"Hanover" a hipster? How about @"Noble Dust?" @"T Clark", @"Unenlightened" and Bitter Crank aka @"BC" (because of hipster dust) are not -- can not...
One may indeed ask, "what's the point?" But to use a religious phrase, a particular religious activity, organization, experience or belief must be "ju...
You seem to have conflated verse 3--"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" and verse 5--"Blessed are the meek: for they...
True. "Inflexibility" in belief is a problem. It hobbles one's capacity to deal with a world which is always more complex and contradictory than ideol...
Hey, I'm just describing what changed in the conduct of war in the 20th Century. Coupled with mechanization, more powerful explosives, and new machine...
You might ask what rationale can be presented to justify the deaths of civilians during any war. The fact is that war changed in the 20th Century, fir...
The US didn't land troops in China before or during WWII, but China and the European allies were both aided by the US before and during WWII. The Comm...
Oppenheimer didn't discover fission or invent the Atomic bomb. As I understand it, he was responsible for organizing the laboratory at Los Alamos, and...
The membership by invitation is fairly recent, and I think Jamal (the owner) instituted it to maintain quality. There are fewer trolls, ranters, extre...
I find the book of Ecclesiastes helpful. Good things and bad things will happen in life. As the gospel puts it (taking it out of context), "The rain f...
One approach is to consider the language used to identify and describe unhappiness. At one time or another, many people experience fairly long periods...
Maybe, but I don't think the subform location is all that significant. You could ask a moderator to move the thread to the Politics and Current Affair...
I used to have a fair amount of confidence in the efficacy of good advice, therapeutic routines, positive thinking, and all sorts of other nostrums (m...
I have heard of Nigel Farage and it was much like hearing of Donald Trump -- bad news. I never understood the enthusiasm for Brexit. Who did it actual...
That's what I was thinking. There is time because stuff happens, things change. In the unimaginably extremely distant future, there will come a final ...
According to Google's AI, the UK does not use the caucus system, whereby voters in precincts (small sub-units of congressional districts) nominate can...
The US Congress passed the "Big Beautiful Bill" yesterday. The public didn't want this bill which extends previous tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts M...
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