That's about the same distance as Beijing to Chengdu which is a seven and a half hour train ride.
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That's about the same distance as Beijing to Chengdu which is a seven and a half hour train ride.
It can't be There's no way the European Union would have the UK back as it is. You'd have to accept no derogations. We would let you into the customs union. But then you'd have to accept EU law as superior to domestic, which is problematic for you
Mercedes EQ series Will certainly get you most of that range. Presumably you would be charging up in Chicago, not just whirling around and coming back?
it was once possible to go from New York to Chicago using just Urban mass transport Daisy chaining one on the other. Not particularly fast, not particularly easy but certainly possible.
It's not so much condescension as incomprehension I suggest. If you haven't been to the USA much you simply don't understand the fact that it's in a large parts a public transport desert.
Kudos to Lisa and her people here for pushing forward a really exciting new area in economics
Oh well I guess that's going to set up some sort of confrontational element
You have to ask what kind of mentality arrests firefighters in the middle of fighting fire. I mean, anybody with half a brain cell would at least wait until they had finished fighting the fire. Why are these people not being doxed and shamed?
How do you know they are ICE? Why have Americans not cosplayed ICE and lurked outside their offices?
Laughs in Waymo
Not scholarship but.... a take. archive.transformativeworks.org/works/382925...
Sell one tictac get a free
Scarlet for ye
Lol Land of the free me hoop
I do love how America is speed running into the Middle ages. When are we going to get the cool funky costumes? Because you're already heading for the religious mania, anti-science xenophobia bit. There has to be something good yeah?
This is heartbreaking. Day after day, russia kills and destroys with no other reason but to reign terror. #RussiaIsATerroristState is not just a label or temporary policy — this is what russia is at it’s core.
Yes but the Norwegians looked at Finland as a land of bountiful opportunity.
These people are the quintessential, reified, nimby
Remember 1/3 American voters voted for this 1/3 couldn't be bothered to turn you out to vote against it The problem isn't just them The problem is the voting base
Can somebody translate this from americanese to human language? I have no idea what they are saying here
Crucial to know that this is mainly an USA thing
For me it was the Infinite and the Divine, the Eisenhorn and Ravenor books, Night Lords. #W40k
Over the last year I've got heavily into reading the books around Warhammer 40k. Not remotely interested in the tabletop game, or in painting the figurines. Although some of the painting is absolutely class. I wonder what people's favorite book or series in W40k might be? #W40K #Warhammer
Turloch Hill. I remember in the 1970s they used to have inspirational short movies about these before the main feature in the cinema. To the fair the motorway system is on a par. But we should be much more ambitious and much less tolerant of nimbyism
Can you imagine trying to build this in Ireland? The nimbies would be queued up for miles "Ballybackward says no to sand"
lfe.hse.ru/conference_14 How come an American professor at The University of South Carolina is keynoting a conference in Moscow at a school heavily heavily linked to the regime?
BYD is not Chinese state-owned. It's founder has about 18%, the rest is diversified across the usual suspects such as Fidelity, Black Rock, various other fund management companies globally.
What did the international baccalaureates do to them?
It was less Dublin as the Irish government not trusting the British government, more Dublin acting as And on behalf of the general nationalist and Republican population of Northern Ireland
Ulster , at least 45%, says no You can't do this and keep the Good Friday agreement. Break that and you break the brexit arrangements. You can't expect nationalists in Northern Ireland to trust the good faith and intentions of the British government. That isn't how it goes
This coming just after Blunkett is incredibly concerning. The British government is obviously putting out some of its old guns to float balloons. So far they're not being shut down in the ridicule that they should be. Every time body suggests this they should be asked which right they will give up.
So National Front policies have been mainstreamed by a party with four MPs, thanks to a media that's more interested in sensationslism than actual news. Shame on all of them.
I mean honestly, at this stage that entire cabinet needs to be taken away for psychological assistance.
Abject shameless pandering that wouldn't have been out of place in the court of Caligula
Right, so are these people in Uganda simply then taking money from gullible Americans? Was it Uganda with the Tories? I can't recall but I remember something like that.
Oh no. He was elected, by tens of millions. The problem is not trump it's the US political culture.
Question Wtaf is UGANDA doing enabling the USA in its madness?
It's well worth visiting the ancient acropolis. A city with a fascinating history
Can anyone translate to human 😬
Weird ass prudery
I don't pretend that anybody understands the mentality, but is there a *reason* given why this lady Florida is banning the Diary of Anne Frank in schools? Like is there a particular passage, particular phrasing, what's the ostensibility reason
You'll have to explain.
Guarantee they'll shoot first and then ask. Guarantee They can presumably, make a reason NOT to go there and occupy. Go sick. Resign. Desert, I dunno. They CHOOSE, actively, to do this. They get no pass. None of them
Yeah I'd say the IDF is terrified of this
Better question. Why is Uganda a willing partner here.
Does it play this? youtu.be/SDuHXTG3uyY?...
Where is the swastika? Is it subtly blended into the fabric or proudly displayed front and center? I think the people who purchase this car in 2025 need to know exactly what they're getting
And hot in practical terms will this questioning do? Is this the equivalent of thoughts and prayers? Is there anything practical that they can do or are they just going to continue to ring their hands
Have you tried deploying your strongest thoughts and prayers? Democrats keep fighting as though they are fighting in normal circumstances. You're nice. And that's what's going to be your downfall
Do you really think the people who voted for Trump give a goddamn? When do you accept that you have lost tens of millions of your friends and neighbors to fascism and they are irredeemable?
I find it very hard to have any empathy sympathy or anything other than laughing contempt for people who purchased these horrifically ghastly lumps of 5-year-old imagination
Your friends and neighbors
Thoughts and prayers didn't work to stop school shooting. They're not going to work to stop this. Feel free to be as angry as you want to, but direct that anger. Find your nearest Trump voter and shout at them. You won't have to go far
Your anger is an understandable, if in this case misplaced reaction. Your country has sleed into fascism and you don't know what to do. The people who will put you in camps are your neighbors and coworkers. They're not me
Oh yes, that will certainly help you cause. It's not like anybody else in the world has a viewpoint Is it? That American exceptionalism is going to take a long hard beating before you realize you are down a path others have seen
You're so sweet when you imagine things like that happening. Nobody is coming to save you.
Seems like you as a nation have decided not to do that. Seems like as a nation you have decided not to for example doxx these people Seems like as a nation you have decided not to pick random members of this and go and protest outside their houses explaining to their neighbors
No no. Every individual officer has made a decision to do this. They don't get a pass.
None of which makes it part of the British empire as we commonly understand I'm not defending imperialism ...just facts. Syria was part of the Ottoman sphere of influence forever
Can we ask what was the thinking behind it at that stage? I'm old enough to remember that as being quite not that very far away in time .... Presumably you felt or had advice that you had a brand? Forgive me if this is intrusive
Please let Sweden , on its own just deal with Russia.
Like all citizens of repressive governments you need to start to use VPNs. You should start rooting yours through Mexico
There's a reason Afghanistan is called the graveyard of empires. As for Syria, the fact that they were British irregulars floating around doesn't make it part of the empire.
Painting by Mrs Prof "After the hay"
Explain to me how the British empire exploited Syria and Afghanistan?
Does @cstross.bsky.social want to burst this bubble....?
"Dude! Godot will like totally come!"
Is it really fair to add battery storage to that graph? The electricity to go into batteries has to be created from somewhere else
What a complete shock to absolutely nobody. Meanwhile the party of government ignores it, the main opposition in Parliament asks if they should just try a little harder and the likely incoming government suggests setting fire to foreigners to encourage them to buy more British stuff
4* large steak burgers w cheese and onion 4* large chicken kebab in various marinades and glazes 16 meatballs in BBQ sauce 4* chicken garlic en crout €25 Local butcher, locally sourced. What would these cost where you are, bluesky folk?
Until they screw up Federal reserve, and they look like they want to do that, the USA will still export large amounts of pictures of dead presidents that people quite like.
Mississippi, where girls can get married at 15, is trying to protect children by blocking bluesky.
FIFA will shrug, and they forfeit the game
I'm sure the Democrats will break out their finest thoughts and prayers, as well as tactical memos and exceptionally well crafted sound bites.
www.newstalk.com/news/pro-pal... Bet that has the IDF thinking hard. Useless performative nonsense that service only to antagonize a population already overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian
Doesn't that depend on what you think college is about? It's a complex bundle of fact and skill accumulation, social development and networking.
Yep. And, not everything can be accommodated everywhere all the time.
When needed yes.
no Eoin its reality. You will find in life you cant please everyone all the time.
@safety.bsky.app Bluesky wishes me to age verify, stating “the laws in your location require …”. Can you please direct me to the law in Ireland that says that? Either a statute or a ministerial order reference will do.
Sorry if the reality of constrained optimization is painful.
No, My point is that organizers have limited time and other resources to put into organizing. Everything that we do precludes something else at the margin. It would be possible to have the most accessible conference but it's not necessarily then going to be the best for most
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I understand what you're saying. I also suspect you miss the amount of work takes to organize a conference. It's bad enough trying to organize it to get everybody in the same place. When you add in hybrid it adds an extra layer of complexity to an already stressed system
If you think that being part of the social network of your research community is a perk, you're doing it wrong
It depends on what you think conference does. It's much much less about research and much much more about people meeting each other and the socialization and social formation of research.
This is absolutely NOT my experience
Yes this followed by the squeezy lemons are what immediately jumps into mind here on the northwestern European Atlantic isles or whatever we call them
Will I fuck give my biometrics to some company I never heard of @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team
Hey @safety.bsky.app , can you explain in great legal details The precise Irish laws that you were referring to here?
Oh I dunno. Maybe, the parents tell them? And it's eradicated. Plus here again making an assumption, that that's what happens. Maybe that's what happens in Canada but it's not a global issue
Little Now imagine you were born in , say, Mongolia and called say Ganbold. Or Bolormaa. And end up in Nova Scotia.
If an international adoptee has a name that is , in the context of their country, "odd", it's a consideration. And they can know their birth name as well. This isn't b&w
I guess I was a couple of decades too young and in the wrong continent
Given that you knew absolutely nothing about me, my family, my background, or indeed anything... This tells me that you need to be given the big boot of block
That's a tremendously negative and perhaps personally charged perspective
Grand. Why don't you all sit there in your purity and point at those who were less pure but more sensible.
A number of people have mentioned the girl with the silver eyes come out which I have to confess I had never heard of before this discussion
DM me News flash. Adoption is a global phenomena
Counterpoint Part of the job of parents, adoptive or not, is to make sure kids fit into their environment. Sometimes that might mean name changes.