RNLI volunteer charged over death of death of a grandfather who died after a boat capsized in a rescue operation
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One of those situations where a logical classification system based on particular features ends up placing some items into a different category to the lay understanding (tree = big plant, on3 that grow way taller than a human)
See also
Banana “trees” are herbs
Tomatoes are fruit
Birds are dinosaurs
There are 8 planets in the solar system, or thousands, but definitely not 9.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostIs that tree in the front native to Wales?Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
No, not at all, but palms and the like do grow in the UK so you see quite a few of them around.
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Underpants Gnomes meet Generative AI Offshore
I feel older then usual
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostIs that tree in the front native to Wales?
No, not at all, but palms and the like do grow in the UK so you see quite a few of them around.Last edited by Nocturnal Submission; 14-03-2024, 02:41.
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Originally posted by Balderdasha View Post
Never mind the extension. The number of competing and conflicting floral patterns in that house make me want to claw my own eyes out.
And image No. 7 on the particulars suggests that there might, just possibly, be an issue with damp in the property.
I presume that the extension was built without planning permission!
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I saw the graphitti highway about 30 years ago. But it’s all covered up now.
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Now that is AITIDKUT.
"The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire which has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962."
I mean I knew theoretically that there were coal fires in some places just spewing out carbon dioxide. But I hadn't considered that there were fires that had been burning continuously for over 60 years. That's terrifying.
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Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View Posthttps://twitter.com/glenglenglen/status/1767674835339997515?t=JT1S7uF0MpoGL-S5GMmlUw&s=19
The extension. Wtf indeed?
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostJesus said that in Matthew and Luke.
It is interpreted ethically and eschatologically, but like all of those parables, it refers to something that the audience would have understood. So even 2000 years ago, they knew that building a house on sand was stupid.
The foolish man built his house upon the sand indeed. The rain came down and the floods came up and the house came tumbling down. Falalalala-lalala-la.
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If they stop providing sewer, water, power and mail to those houses, they might leave.
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https://twitter.com/glenglenglen/status/1767674835339997515?t=JT1S7uF0MpoGL-S5GMmlUw&s=19
The extension. Wtf indeed?
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True. A one-off "We'll buy your house for something close to market value, but it'll fall into the sea and you have to fuck off somewhere else, and that is that - no more offers after this one, and no more bail outs (or bale outs), anything that goes wrong, any time you flood, you're getting yourselves out of their and dealing with any mess" would be something I'd think was acceptable. I bet none of them would take it, thinking that the government was still going to rescue them next time. And they'd probably be right.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostYou're probably right about Salisbury, although I'd not be 100% sure. Most of the homes on the coast look like they were built in the last 60 years or so. Still, I don't think the state should necessarily bail out people who have waterfront property, even if its owned generationally. Because once you start doing that you end up funding the rescue of all the fools who've been buying coastal property in Florida or South Carolina while ignoring geography and physics, expecting Big Government to save them while at the same time whining about Big Government.
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I think it is “recognized” in a few other states, but maybe not “observed.”
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View Post
Not exactly.
It's on Patriot's Day, which is a rare example of a state holiday, officially observed in Massachusetts and a few other states but not nationally. It honors the first battles of the American Revolution/War of Independence in Massachusetts.
Patriot's Day was established in Massachusetts in 1894. The marathon has been run on that day, as part of the celebration, since 1897.
People in Boston get shitfaced on any day off work.
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You're probably right about Salisbury, although I'd not be 100% sure. Most of the homes on the coast look like they were built in the last 60 years or so. Still, I don't think the state should necessarily bail out people who have waterfront property, even if its owned generationally. Because once you start doing that you end up funding the rescue of all the fools who've been buying coastal property in Florida or South Carolina while ignoring geography and physics, expecting Big Government to save them while at the same time whining about Big Government.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostOr, at the very least, accept that when you buy coastfront property in a warming climate with more extreme weather events that you're playing roulette with the odds that your house will survive until you die.
I think the fact that insurers won't insure and mortage companies won't give mortgages on waterfront properties is a bit of a giveaway that you're just hoping your house outlives you.
Certainly, they were built long before anyone worried about climate change.
It might be cheaper in the long run for the state to just buy them out and let nature take it's course. Sorta like Centralia.Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 13-03-2024, 17:18.
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Or, at the very least, accept that when you buy coastfront property in a warming climate with more extreme weather events that you're playing roulette with the odds that your house will survive until you die.
I think the fact that insurers won't insure and mortage companies won't give mortgages on waterfront properties is a bit of a giveaway that you're just hoping your house outlives you.
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Jesus said that in Matthew and Luke.
It is interpreted ethically and eschatologically, but like all of those parables, it refers to something that the audience would have understood. So even 2000 years ago, they knew that building a house on sand was stupid.
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