He should have been a billionaire. They can rape, torture and murder humans without consequences, so an animal shouldn’t also be a problem.
What he did was wrong but this man is heading to prison for that, while billionaires meet on private islands to abuse humans without any consequence.
AFAIK the former prince Andrew was arrested in relation to national secrets he was giving to Epstein, not because of the pedo stuff.
Yes but I’m not living near an expressway (anymore). Most people also don’t. AFAIK most people living in an urban environment will be near a low speed street. So as mentioned, I’m in my apartment with the windows open and can now hear the the noises of electric cars’ pedestrian warning systems when they pass in front. Or I’m walking along a slow street to go to the grocery and of all the cars on that street, only the electric one can be heard. Even when I have my headphones on.
Sure, electric cars are as noisy as cars with internal combustion engines at high speed. But what I’m specifically concerned about is how much more noisy those things make in an urban environment when at low speed.
Electric car advocates are often saying those are much quieter than cars with internal combustion engines, and that it’s a positive. That electric cars will make our urban environments much more relaxed and quiet. However, because of all those pedestrian warning systems making different types of noises at different volumes and frequencies, they often end up noisier than cars burning gas.
I never had the displeasure to hear one yet. But as my country just opened up to Chinese electric cars, I guess it won’t be long before there’s one more annoying sound in our urban environment.
Lithium will counteract the ADHD caused by the vaccines. It’s part of Elon’s genius plan. /s
So we’re just spreading trash in the environment and feeling good about it because it can be reused by other animals?
This just made me look up and learn about the environmental impact of tennis balls.
I’m convinced the casino bankruptcies were just a way to launder money and abuse the system. There’s probably a few hundred contractors that never got paid while he benefited from their work long enough to make profit out of it.
I dug a bit more to find the origin of the photo and found that it’s from a collection taken by Harry Burton. The series about Tutankhamun’s Tomb can be seen here. Some of them have been colourized.
The description says
3 January 1924 | Harry Burton’s photograph records the intact necropolis seal and cord fastening (Carter no. 238a) on the third (of four) great gilded shrines surrounding Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus in the Burial chamber.
Two photos seem to show doors like this.
I’m going to add Sony to this list.
I can’t tell you about the US but I’m from a “young” country too. Younger than the US. The westward expansion of Canada passed the Great Lakes was entirely dependent on railways. It was a national project to make sure the country could actually exist in the first place. It’s what built most of the prairies. Having a railroad that traversed the country was seen as a primordial enterprise that had to be realized at any cost. It was a way to bring European colonizers and troops in the west. Here’s another ad in French.
French colonizers arrived in Québec in 1608. Sure, there were no trains and they relied on the St-Lawrence for more than a century. By the end of the 1700s colonization was expanding westward using canals and locks. First small ones like at Coteau-du-Lac, then bigger ones like the Lachine canal that was built in the 1820s.
But just like in a lot of other parts of the world, our young country also saw the industrial revolution and the invention of trains. The first rail line in Canada was between La Prairie and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, to help people traveling between New-York and Montreal. Passengers were taking boats between New-York and St-Jean using the Champlain and Chambly, then would have to take a coach between St-Jean and La Prairie, before getting on another boat to finally get to Montréal. So a rail line was constructed. It eventually linked Montréal and New-York directly. Most of it still exists.
And just like in Europe, eventually railways replaced canals and we had them every where. Every fucking where. I come from the south of Québec and there’s easily half a dozen abandoned railways from the 1800s in my region alone. It was possible to go to the smallest villages by train. But then highways, cars, abandoned lines. VIA Rail’s network keep shrinking. All of North America’s rail network is shrinking.
No, it’s not because we’re “young” countries that we didn’t have the chance to develop a robust rail network.
And IRC now has web clients that can display inline images, upload them on a channel, preview URLs, push notifications, keep history, and more.
I use The Lounge but there is also Convos and a few others.
You are clearly stating that you are not an historian and this is just your intuition. People give you information and facts contrary to your intuition, and you accuse them of being mean and agressive.
No. It’s not a reason. It could, but it’s not. They are telling you. Sorry.
To me this is defending motonormativity.
I also walk and bike at night, sometimes on multiuse paths with pedestrians, dog walkers and cyclists. Dogs don’t have lights and are sometimes unpredictable. You know what I do when I’m cycling on a shared path, instead of expecting everyone to flash like a christmas tree? I slow down! This way I can react before hitting a pedestrian or a dog. I’m the one going much faster than them. I’m the one that has to be careful.
Once I nearly got hit by a truck passing me on a countryside road. It was day time but it was also raining. I was wearing a bright orange t-shirt. But apparently I wasn’t visible enough?! In all the cases. I’m sure it was my fault for existing and not taking all the necessary precautions to make sure I can be seen from space and avoid getting hit.
I don’t carry reflective hardware and flashing lights with me just in case I have to walk somewhere in the dark. Sometimes I’m walking a few km in my sister’s town in the dark or in the rain. Sometimes I’m walking in another city, or country. I’m not carrying “safety equipment” with me everywhere I go just because some idiot motorists wants to go the speed limit in the dark without regard to other road users, or animals. Whatever happens, it will always be my fault for being there outside of a car anyway. Did I have headphones on? Maybe I was wearing dark makeup? I came out of nowhere! Or maybe I was not walking or cycling at the right place or at the right time.
Motorists are the one that drive a multi ton lethal vehicle, sometimes in the dark, and everyone not in one is expected to take precautions against them.
Motonormativity.
EDIT: Wear reflective gear if you want to. It’s not a bad idea. But it SHOULD NOT be expected.
Deer, raccoons, and the billion animals killed every year should also do more to be visible.
Indeed. There’s a lot of unintentional sanewashing being done by translators on international news. I’m the only one of my family that can speak English and it’s astonishing to see/hear how the news make him sound less stupid in French than in English. My brother-in-law doesn’t speak a lick of English and is a Trump supporter. All his information comes from translations, and yet, he insists on saying that Trump was misunderstood and that the news are deliberately making him look bad.
Vere. Ĝi devu esti Esperanton, sed Anglo parolantoj povus ne lerni. Kiel Eddie Izzard diris: Pli ol unu lingvoj in unu kapo?! Malpossibla!
Lots of people with English as their second language have a better vocabulary than Trump. As someone that had to learn English, I always thought his was at the level of a child and I can’t understand how so many native speakers don’t seem to realize that.
So far it’s still working for me with Firefox and the “Video Background Play Fix” extension.
Cars make people miserable.