Alan Grant

63 year-old male thinking of buying a black leather jacket for well over a year now.

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Catching Summer's End https://t.co/RKhqgUPz22 via @YouTube

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@techAU @davemccowen At school David was very good in English but not smart enough for law.

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@Sr_GomasII

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@sierracatalina I see a Learjet. 🙂

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@DeutscheWelle Where is Germany boys and girls?

Non-US reusable rocket companies (medium-lift, low-cost orbit):
• China: LandSpace (Zhuque-3), iSpace (Hyperbola-3), Galactic Energy (Pallas-1), Deep Blue Aerospace.
• Europe: PLD Space (Miura 5, Spain), MaiaSpace (France).
• Japan: Interstellar Technologies.

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@OnDisasters @MCCCANM This is what happens to the aircraft that I fly when ‘the gear’ is absent.

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@MensHumor @grok Using a T9 phone, what does "444 6 0 777 444 222 55 0 5 2 6 33 7777 0 22 444 8 222 44" output?

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@PlanetOfMemes Bigot.

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@BuzzPatterson It’s Aircraft Carrier Island.

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@lippyent It’s cold outside.

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@esherifftv @JoeTegtmeyer Bigot! 🤷‍♂️

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@Hiruzenaio @elonmusk @CommunityNotes I only hope the new Netflix documentary includes interviews with each of Elon’s leather jacket suppliers.

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Yes. The problem is that many people not reading this now think that this is a concrete example of a world built to suit males. I’d like to say ‘men’ but that noun no longer has the meaning that it once had. The idea being proposed by the people who are not reading this is that the way we ‘give access and opportunity’ to people other than males (yes, there it is again) is to reconstruct the world. Sorry, it’s a theme on my mind.

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Flugwerft Schleissheim, which is an annex to the Deutsches Museum in Munich Germany. Ride a bicycle there on a sunny day. Carry you roller blades with you. Check out the aircraft then ride or roll around the old airfield that is still an active glider tow field. Check out a bit of history and marvel at the old radio free Europe building traversed by the old runway. Did I forget to mention the Schloss and the gardens? Oh, then have a great beer in the beer garden. Do I win a prize? 😉

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The motivation for ‘equalities legislation’ is a misplaced desire to lift the less capable. For example, and this is out there but it works as an example, take Land Surveying, a field dominated by males. In Australia it’s 5% female to 95% male. How do we get more female participation? It’s the wrong question. It’s not the weight of the equipment, the outdoor work, the remoteness and independence required of a surveyor. No, not at all. I wish it were that simple. The argument is that the world had been designed by men to suit men to the exclusion of anyone else. The misplaced desire is to rebuild the world, perhaps radically redesign land boundary definition altogether. It helps that the ‘hard work’ has already been done, but don’t get distracted; that work is the problem. They argue for a clean slate. It’s nuts but it their case.

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@kneubuehl The unboxing should have knocked you out for the count (in a nice way).

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@theiaincameron @grok What’s the current ratio of male to female Land Surveyors in Australia?

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@libsoftiktok That's an 'own goal' if ever I've seen one.

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@amazingmap Typical that New Zealand was left off the map. 🦘

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@jwalkermobile Waddya gunna do if ya crashland on warta, mate? 🦘

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@NoContextBrits 1. Go away now!