PhobosAnomaly

"plus gimme pointy ends" sounds like the Simple Wikipedia article for "Requesting A Stabbing"

Fucking hell, I thought us Brits had a reputation for being tone deaf inward-looking shitheads... I mean we can be yeah, but this lass takes the biscuit.

It's insane how blinkered she is.

That's dead interesting. I can't profess to understand the hows and whys, but it's amazing that these sorts of technologies were adopted so early.

Great stuff. I'd positively melt in 34degrees mind!

Disclaimer: I can write my entire knowledge of DIY and building on an ant's dong in black marker

A pal of mine started a business building ecologically-sustainable holiday lodges. They were built out of timber and hay, with a limestone render.

They were beautiful and warm, but that was the result of years of battles with the planning dept who pushed back at almost every turn (despite absolute carbuncles going ahead no bother), and the architect who was more concerned with dropping prefabricated lodges in - defeating the selling point of being as green as possible.

I appreciate your input though, if there was ever such a thing as an across-the-water fist bump, this would be it!

Stone houses are awesome.

Not nearly the same historical context as the Dammuso are in, but stone buildings generally mirror that property before you factor in central heating and the like.

I live near a Scottish city which prides itself on the building of grand houses using a particular type of quarried stone, and it's nice being eight degrees below the summer weather...

...but it isn't much fun being eight degrees below the winter outdoor temperature either!!

Fucking hell, thank you. I thought I was going quite mad - I'd just taken a detour in solving it instead.

Cheers friend!

Alright, education time needed!

I'm a fair few years out from my entry level uni maths module, so:

In between the second and third step of the solution, why is 1a / 2√a = 6

not evaluating as

a/√a = 12 ?

Charizard origin story.

Yeah it's a valid point. The closest train service is about 35 miles away... and it's 30 miles to the city by road so it's a bit of a pain in the backside. I'd love to use public transport more but the infrastructure isn't really here north of Scotland's central belt.

When I lived in the south of England, one of the best things about it was not having to plan journeys. I could blindly walk into the local town's train station and there'd be a London-bound train every twelve or fifteen minutes. It wasn't really cheap, but I:d much rather pay the premium to travel without thinking; and with fewer emissions.

Here though, we're a bit fucked. It's not a rare story either - anything outside of Scotland's city limits, public transport is a bit spotty and rather expensive, but it is what it is.

Firstly: fuck the paywall.

Secondly: I can't tell if the data includes buses being stopped at... well, stops - or if it's only measured over the time the bus is in motion. With the increase of stops in developing suburban areas, the average speed would naturally come down.

I'm not saying that bus speeds aren't coming down, but it's hard to read into the data - especially when the speeds are only a few tenths of a mile per hour slower than pre-pandemic levels.

Similarly, the 48 and 94 routes had seen gaps between buses increase from five to 15 minutes.

Off topic; but as a rural dweller, that made me giggle. An hourly bus is a luxury round here, and that's on an A-road on a rural-to-city route.

Not necessarily a shooter, but Out of Sight was a cool take on the Second Person genre, and unusually eerie because of that very mechanic.

The issue is that it needs to be informed consent, rather than just "they said yes"... or even worse, "they didn't say no". I feel like I need a shower just typing that.

In this instance, the girl may have seemed like a willing participant - but anyone "consenting" when they're below 16 (or whatever your local jurisdiction's legal age is) needs to be taken with a truckful of salt, and in most cases is entirely inadmissable as a legal defence. I'm all for granting young adults the opportunity to make most decisions for themselves - but there are certain grey areas that their age renders them vulnerable to coercion or exploitation, sexual interactions being one of them.

There are of course very narrow exceptions - most notably the Romeo and Juliet laws, but it's generally accepted that if one party is below the age of consent while the other isn't, then the consent is not informed and therefore not valid.

It doesn't have to be age-based either. It can be in environments where there is a sufficient difference in power dynamic (big difference in levels of seniority in the workplace; persons with learning disabilities or additional needs; or those with dependency issues) where consent is not informed and is the subject of coercion rather than genuine consent.