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@RelaxoEl @ChrisPacia @Steinernomics Why, in 1997, did a plastic tub for a new born baby cost USD$300 on the medical bill for a birth?

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@AFellowThefo6p @mndemsoc They didn’t. It was supposed to be full head to waist. Not just their heads. Then they ran out of money, and abandoned it. That’s why Washington has part of his coat sculpted.

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@AdrianAdriasola Those are all part of IP laws. Which are cited in the original meme (as being part of “capitalism”) as things stifling innovation.

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@EvanCull @iain_monty @mattfle02898557 @aswren Not gonna lie—the GBR livery isn’t great (although probably trivial to apply being a vinyl). Should have gone for something along the lines of the EMR maroon livery. Classy and understated.

No doubt we’ll get regional variation again in a decade or so.

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@PLH49342920 @JimmyThomist So in your view, it would have been better not to tell everyone that anyone else’s ships in the combat zone (and later the TEZ) might get targeted, so stay out? You think that would have ended up with *better* PR?

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@PLH49342920 @JimmyThomist The whole point of the exclusion zone was to tell *civilians* (and third parties) to stay out of the way so they didn’t get mistaken for Argentinians. Not publishing it would have rather defeated the purpose.

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@Al_Perring @BFNoles @DonovanTim I think American football would be better if the teams didn’t swap out every time possession changes. But I don’t ask them to change the rules. I don’t watch it and watch Rugby instead.

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@whisperity @ThePositiveCrit @BalzsTimr5 @nazzobetweeting Can’t be—otherwise France would be red. The Fifth Republic only started in 1958.

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@burna1505 @Geiger_Capital Either way, still not an American.

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@Geiger_Capital *Davies, not Davis.

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@Geiger_Capital Swann was English, AGB was Scottish, and Davis and Berners-Lee were English. I’ll give you the transistor and the aeroplane though—Americans got those figured out how to build those first.

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@timecode1260 @Hector_McNeil @KathAntonio7 @Geiger_Capital Which was turned on *after* Donald Davies had already connected up the NPL network in Britain. And they did it using the very outline of how to do it Davies had figured out and published.

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@Kordell43106375 @sunlit_upland @AliMeast @AnnieEaves @JohnRentoul No, it’s not. But HS2 being a gigantic money pit is entirely due to the regulatory and planning environment in this country. It didn’t need to be, but instead it spent years going through legal challenges to everything from the route to whether it might kill a bat.

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@Kordell43106375 @sunlit_upland @AliMeast @AnnieEaves @JohnRentoul The reason to build it for high speed is it doesn’t actually cost a whole lot more in terms of actual construction. It’s only a “failure” because of the planning rules in the UK, and fucking NIMBYs who think trains aren’t part of our countryside.

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@IsidoreCarrault The literally made Alfred the Great arch villain and founder of the Templars (as a ground up rebuild of the OoA). Also, they ended the story 3-4 months early so they didn’t have to include Alfred’s decisive defeat of the Danes at Edington.

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@BFNoles The primary complaint about the officiating of offside rule has nothing to do with where the offside line is, and everything to do with how little of a player is offside. This proposal will not remove the complaints of “He’s only fraction of a mm over! Where’s the leeway!?”

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@Kordell43106375 @sunlit_upland @AliMeast @AnnieEaves @JohnRentoul And if you think 2 more tracks for the WCML wouldn’t have had most of the same problems, I have a bat bridge to sell you. Imagine getting told houses in every town on the ML is being compulsory acquired? And where are you running the line into Euston (still no space)

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@Kordell43106375 @sunlit_upland @AliMeast @AnnieEaves @JohnRentoul HS2 is supposed to be the “more of it”. Just not constrained to a route built for Victorian trains (because why do the express trains need to go through all those towns at all?).

Yes, it was sold on speed to London, but what it gets you is a lot more space for slow trains.

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@Kordell43106375 @sunlit_upland @AliMeast @AnnieEaves @JohnRentoul How does that relieve capacity on the WCML? Capacity that can be used to increase the number of stopping services and increase freight transport?