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Brewdog's Business Book has aged like milk [video](youtube.com)
5 points by nephihaha 2d ago|2 comments
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France announces <€1B in emergency farm support after 2026 summer(thescottishfarmer.co.uk)
2 points by nephihaha 3d ago|7 comments
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by nephihaha 3d ago
Money doesn't buy you better friends.
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by nephihaha 3d ago
The equivalent study in Florida would be of native names and old Spanish ones at a stretch.
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by nephihaha 3d ago
I had to look up Ramsey Heights but it looks to be in one of the flattest parts of East England! No one believes me, but there is a respectable example in Norwich called Kett's Hill. It's not huge, but it has enough of a slope on
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by nephihaha 3d ago
If you go to England, you're better off going to the New Forest in Hampshire. Despite the name, it was established during the Norman period and at least feels like a substantial tract of older woodland. (Tiny by North American standard
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by nephihaha 3d ago
View of the footpath?
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by nephihaha 3d ago
Lockdown has had a catastrophic effect on dining out.
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by nephihaha 4d ago
"AI can be very helpful in lots of ways, but I think it's fair to say that it is most powerful as an enabler for bad actors." Yes, the effects can be seen all over the Oscars.
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by nephihaha 4d ago
Sherwood is not forgotten of course. Every fan of Robin Hood knows it. But it had the misfortune to be in an early industrial area. I mentioned Birnam Wood in another post, which features in MacBeth. Shakespeare plays fast and loose with Sc
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by nephihaha 4d ago
In a low lying area, all these names can refer to far more smaller features than they would in hillier places. The "ridge" in question may have been only twenty foot tall for example, and smaller than a railway foundation. Some of
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by nephihaha 4d ago
One of the ongoing debates in Scottish and Irish onomastics is about the Kil- prefix. It is usually connected with Cill meaning a monastic cell, but may be a corruption of Coille (wood) and Gil (a gill or ghyll). Kilduff in Fife may be Coil
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by nephihaha 4d ago
"Gaelic has been spoken at one time or another in the whole of Scotland, barring the north of Caithness..." It was spoken in the north of Caithness into the 20th century in Dounreay parish, and previously some other areas just to
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by nephihaha 4d ago
No, it's not always terrifying. I think the terror is because some people feel they're being pressed down. Once you know what it is, it's a lot less scary. It's to stop you acting out your dreams.
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by nephihaha 4d ago
People kill each other over sports allegiances. Someone had been stabbed to death outside my workplace in Glasgow for wearing the wrong football top.
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by nephihaha 5d ago
The same as Australia, the UK, parts of North America etc. I wonder where this was really first aired?
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by nephihaha 5d ago
"This reads like recycled lamarckism." Recycled Lamarckianism would be Lysenkoism. :)
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by nephihaha 5d ago
I was discussing this the other day. Shame and shaming are alive and well. Especially if you do not agree with whatever paradigm is being pushed, like supporting sports team X or not holding the prevailing opinion.
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I Explored the Internet Nobody Visits Anymore [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nephihaha 5d ago|0 comments
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by nephihaha 6d ago
I was in Birnam wood earlier this year. There is very little of the old forest left.
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by nephihaha 6d ago
Government control, more. Continually restricting things that go against their viewpoint. Pushing digital ID online despite obvious security risks.
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by nephihaha 6d ago
The most obvious thing would be that we and other creatures would have sight as a secondary sense. If light went that slowly we would have to develop other ways of navigating the world, such as echolocation, smell or touch.
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by nephihaha 6d ago
Run of the moors, run of the hills And like that to school at summer's end Us being children of five years of age Without a word of English in our heads That's my literal translation anyway. I was talking to an American yesterday
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by nephihaha 7d ago
Brìde is a funny one. It is just about possible that there was a real Brìde who was an abbess, or several in fact, but she was so heavily blended with the pagan deity that she is virtually indistinguishable in some respects. We have a lot o
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by nephihaha 7d ago
The main issues I have are with the administration. I have noticed: * Admin enshittifying content that they have no knowledge or interest in. For example, I have witnessed admin trying to get articles about certain rugby union teams deleted
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by nephihaha 7d ago
If you look closely they tend not to be "Tom Clancy" but "Tom Clancy's". No Clancy book with the apostrophe is worth reading.
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by nephihaha 8d ago
St. George is likely based on Michael, but I imagine the logic would be that the dragon was some kind of convoluted version of the King of the Nagas.
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by nephihaha 8d ago
St. Jehosophat is one of them. Neither of them are currently recognised.
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by nephihaha 8d ago
Many cities are heat sinks and make the problem worse locally due to lack of tree cover and an overabundance of concreta and tar.
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by nephihaha 8d ago
You criticise the previous poster for seeing Communism everywhere and then recommend them a book by Adorno, a dyed in the wool red. That will confuse 'em. https://iep.utm.edu/adorno/

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