Always glad to see a fellow beef head out in the wild. Beef out!

History podcasts I like:

Revolutions. Well known; Mike Duncan goes through various revolutions through history in an excellent, detailed narrative.

American History Too!: two academics from the university of Glasgow have various guests on to discuss different topics from American history. They know their stuff and are really charismatic.

In Our Time: BBC podcast that’s been going since the early 2000s. A panel of academics are interviewed and discuss a topic on which they are all experts. Incredibly well researched and interesting, though not especially humorous.

Lichess :P

FUCKING DOING OUR JOB AS TRANSPORT MODELLERS AND DOING A FUCKING COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS THAT SHOWS YOU’RE NEVER GOING TO GET FUCKING MODE SHIFT FROM RURAL USERS UNLESS YOU RUN A FUCKING METRO STYLE 10 MINUTELY SERVICE WHICH IS FUCKING UNFEASIBLE WITH THE FUCKING RESOURCES WE HAVE AVAILABLE.

IN THE FUCKING UK WE HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF FUCKING ABANDONED RAILWAYS FROM THE PERIOD OF FUCKING COAL MINING THAT WOULDN’T HAVE ANYWHERE NEAR THE FUCKING DEMAND NECESSARY TO JUSTIFY SETTING UP AN EXPENSIVE AS FUCK SIGNALLING SYSTEM TO BRING THEM UP TO MODERN FUCKING SAFETY STANDARDS, ALONGSIDE REPLACING THE FUCKING RAILS, SLEEPERS AND BEDS.

IF INSTEAD YOU CAN HAVE A FUCKING PUBLICALLY OWNED FLEET OF FUCKING ELECTRIC ‘MINI TRAINS’ THAT PEOPLE COULD USE FOR INFREQUENT BUT NECESSARY TRIPS, THAT COULD REMOVE A FUCKING SIGNIFICANT BARRIER TO MODE SHIFT, WHICH WOULD BE PRETTY FUCKING RAD

I was waiting ages for someone to post this!

Still, better now than not at all, I suppose.

Holy shit. That seems so helpful

I use it to scrape up all the stuff once I’ve chopped it. Chop onion, use spine of blade to scrape onto this, dump in pot. Saves lifting heavy chopping board, or scraping onto thin knife.

Six in the morning don’t want to wake

Sun laying low and the world sleeping late

Hate like the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Five days from seven the week’s hardly mine

The alarm clock’s gone over to enemy lines

Waste my time working for cowards and creeps

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Birds at my window sing in the dawn

By the time that I’m home all this day will be gone

Spend my life sowing what others will reap

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Rain strikes the window heralds the day

Rain won’t you wash these eight hours away?

Rain feeds the river runs heavy and deep

Oh I wish that they’d sack me and leave me to sleep

Chumbawamba – I wish they’d sack me

Just move to the UK. This is the norm.

Inability to take a compliment is tied to the general cultural dislike of ‘people who get above themselves’. Arrogance is the cardinal sin, and so in receiving a compliment you either a) accept it (meaning you agree with them that you’re great, which is a sign of arrogance!) or b) deny it (false modesty! A sign of even greater arrogance!). The only acceptable response is to sputter and turn red with embarrassment.

Belated happy international women’s day! Here’s to more open and equitable internet forums :)

Ulcerative colitis

Honestly; didn’t you read the definition? It says it’s too strong to be penetrated smh

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Probably not:

"impregnable

adjective

1. Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.

2. Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable. “an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue.” Similar: unconquerable

3. Too strong to be penetrated. "

Dan Olsen, my beloved.

Absolutely a good point, answering the question ‘why is it a problem?’, to go alongside ‘how can it be fixed?’. Thanks for the thought provocation

There are plenty of reasons a disabled person could exist in a fantasy setting. A transaction, giving something up for power (e.g. Odin). A curse from an enchanter, that they do not have the power to remove. A religious superstition around those that have had accidents befall them (that it is the will of their god). Or even simply the fact that a number of common people may not be able to afford the services of a cleric (for a villager in the mountains, a journey to the city to have their paralysis cured may be beyond what they can manage).

For sure. Systems engineering is a way of trying to apply more rigid thinking to what are known as ‘wicked’ problems. There’s a whole bunch of tools that come under the discipline, but to pick one specific example, causal loop diagrams are often used to help understand why complex phenomena happen. An example:

This shows a causal loop diagram for an energy network. The pluses indicate positive causation in the direction of the arrows, the minuses negative causation. If you were tasked with coming up with all the causes and impacts of fluctuations in energy demand, you might find it difficult to show (e.g.) positive and negative feedback loops

You might find the discipline of systems engineering of interest.

When will chess add jiggle physics for the kings smh

Glad it’s not just me that becomes mega camp. For some reason I go full Joe Lycett in voice and mannerisms.

Laxatives?

Edit: for the latter

Or possibly footsteps