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@KemiBadenoch Trans people trying to quietly live their lives is not activism. Discrimination against those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment is unlawful.
The trib judgement didn't rewrite the SC judgemt, because the SC weren't asked to decide who uses which facilities.

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@tomhfh There is a cross-over just north of the station here which allows trains heading north only to cross from the southbound to the northbound tunnels.

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@tomhfh The journey time from here to Brixton is 8 mins so this sets the frequency of the trains. Given that the busiest part of the line is between here and Kings Cross, I suspect this train had just arrived from N London and it was being prepared to go north again.

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@lehtinenmarkkua @RAF_Luton Finnish or finished? Because it looks as though it's being taken away.

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Deep in ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonian scholars were doing geometry with a level of precision that still feels startling today. Around 1770 BCE, they inscribed a tablet known as IM 67118 with a geometric challenge: find the side lengths of a rectangle when you already know its area and its diagonal. Their method directly uses the relationship we write as a² + b² = c², solved with confidence and clarity using their powerful base‑60 (sexagesimal) number system.

That number system is not some forgotten curiosity, either. It is still embedded in modern life every time you read a clock or measure an angle. Our 60‑minute hours, 60‑second minutes, and 360‑degree circles echo the Babylonian way of thinking, showing how ancient calculation quietly shaped the daily architecture of time and space.

Even older is the famous Plimpton 322 tablet (around 1800 BCE), which lists multiple Pythagorean triples like 3‑4‑5. What makes it extraordinary is that these triples do not seem random. They appear systematically generated, suggesting the Babylonians weren’t just stumbling onto special cases, they were building a repeatable framework for producing them, possibly for training scribes or supporting practical work.

And that practicality mattered. This wasn’t abstract philosophy scribbled for fun. These techniques could be used for surveying land, constructing buildings, and tracking the sky with reliable geometry. The tablets reveal a tradition where mathematics was a working tool, essential for administration, engineering, and astronomy in the earliest urban civilizations.

The deeper message is humbling: the story of math doesn’t begin with a single Greek genius. It stretches back through civilizations that measured, solved, and systematized long before later scholars inherited the spotlight. If Babylonians were already using these relationships with such sophistication, what other “modern” ideas might still be waiting in the clay archives, buried under the dust of time?

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@RaytopianPickle The car:

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@Acyn Cringe

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@TrumpsHurricane They're all winding you up.

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@kencen What leadership? He does what Putin and Netanyahu tell him.

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@PicturesUssr None of them - all represent evil.

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@AVGirl4Life For all those answering with 'none' or 'zero', any admission or suspicion of being trans would be a one-way ticket to immediate bullying, assault and ostracisation. Why would they crack open the door to this dark world?

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@maxjthinks @EverestToday Search results indicate a cost of $45,000 min, and you can pay over $100,000.

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@maxjthinks @EverestToday It's already only accessible to rich people, who can afford the travel expenses, the equipment, taking time off work for training and the climb, insurance, hostels, fees for Gurkhas' assistance, medical expenses, etc. None of this is cheap.

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@walking_fetus @EverestToday If they need to gain weight, then they pick up some of the rubbish coming down. At some point there will be very little left and the deposit can be reduced.

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@AOC Fat chance

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@MForstater Nothing. I have better uses of my time.

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@EverestToday ... refundable only if ...

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@EverestToday Charge climbers a not insignificant sum to cover cleanup, refundable only of you can show your weight coming down is the same as going up. $10,000 each might be a good starting point.

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@volcaholic1 @poornimashresth They ought to be ashamed.

https://t.co/9glEhgmG25

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@EverestToday Charge climbers a not insignificant sum to cover cleanup, refundable only of you can show your weight coming down is the same as going up. $10,000 each might be a good starting point.