@japan_nobunaga The British were coming to Lexington and Concord to take american weaponry. In those days, due to the volatility of gunpowder, people kept most of what they owned in a fortified bunker in town. Look also at the McMinn County war.
@Aris_Utensil This might be relevant if there weren't multiple locales in Britain and western Europe that make it illegal to use a external heat pump to cool a home.
@CyMorgComics The purpose of public schools is ostensibly to educate the populace. I say ostensibly since this hasnt been true since disparate impact and the idea everyone should graduate their grade regardless of performance was folded into the public school system.
@SJW_22@anonymasslawyer@Goatboy991994 F=MA. There was not enough FORCE at 24mph to shatter the cover, two diffusers, and the interior housing. Period. Dents in thin metal/plastic are minor damage. Broken glass is minor damage. Normal car glass is meant to be breakable before it causes major injury to humans.
@SJW_22@anonymasslawyer@Goatboy991994 Fuck you're stupid. Even ignoring that the demonstration didnt even manage to shatter both diffusers at 24mph, let alone the interior housing, your conflating two unrelated events shows your imbecility. No incident with serious damage to the car results in no crush injuries.
@anonymasslawyer@Goatboy991994 Anyone with a modicum of understanding of real world physics understands that you cannot shatter a taillight cover, two internal diffusers, and the housing facing the frame with a sub 24mph impact w/a human arm that results in zero crush injuries or broken bones.
@muslimlebron This depends entirely on local speed limits and the speed limit at which cops pull a person over. For instance, a 100mi drive down a highway with a 60mph speed limit in which the staties dont bother to pull you over unless you hit 80 means you can go 75 mph and save 20 minutes.
@AwkwardScoob@neontaster Which has jack fucking all to do with how the NYC publishing houses responded to his and Rothfuss' fat lazy asses not finishing the books. Those publishers outright stopped buying singletons of a series from new authors unless you already had a large fanbase, let alone advances.
@ApexSeeker_ Rare earth minerals are only rare in their percentage by volume. There are vast tracts of them everywhere, including the US. The reason China has the market is because they subsidize the sales and crash the market every time someone else starts to mine them.
@RobProvince Instead of boiling in 60-90 seconds, it takes american electric kettles 3-4 minutes to boil water. This is close enough to the 5-6 minutes that boiling water on the stove takes that most American tea drinkers dont bother springing for an electric kettle.
@holdenwolden000@MayorMikeRIP@grok@nevrnewd@JamesSurowiecki@wirbel_flak If gay men commit offenses at rates 10-20 times greater than hetero men, not even getting into the difference in rates of biological father vs stepdad/moms new live in boyfriend, then that means James is incapable of understanding per capita, or refuses to do so.
@roflm0nster Power grid failure caused by wind and solar shitting the bed combined with T Boone Pickens' greed with the speed in which he rolled out the Natural Gas turbines to backstop them meant design of supply pipes was poor, leading to freezing when pressure suddenly dropped in pipes.