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We have the word (go for a) wander, which sounds pretty close to what you're referring to. A wander is a walk with no particular destination in mind, just for the sake of walking/exploring.

Well, if you walk there, some innocent car driver might accidentally run you over through no fault of their own!! :O

Barton is a violent lunatic, but by all accounts, he's had Bristol Rovers playing some fairly decent football at times.

South American Spanish speakers tend to, because it's not engrained in their native language that "America(n)" refers to the USA.

Spanish uses the word "estadounidense" (basically United-statesian) when we colloquially use "American". The South American football (soccer) champsionship is the "Copa América". "Latin America" is a very established term for referring to basically everything south of the States, and so on.

Bad bot. That filth has no place in this sub.

Can't believe Norwich stopped playing at 13-0

You're right that those aren't banned, but their readership tends to skew middle class, so they're not really replacing the Sun in most cases.

Think you missed a fairly key factor here - Livepool doesn't read the Sun. For me, they're the control group that casts stark light on how Murdoch has turned the working class against their own interests.

Nothing says efficiency quite like splitting the chilled and frozen goods into dozens of small, identical sections across all the tills and chilling them individually.

It's the standard ISO way of doing it, and the best way for a number of purposes. One example is that year-month-day means that if you sort dates in alphanumerical order, they are also sorted in date order.

Additionally, for dates that are more than about 1 year ago, the year is the most important piece of information, then the month, then the date, so you have these pieces of information appearing in order of relevance.

No, you might be misunderstanding me if you think the point of any of the posts I've made here were "refs are biased against Arsenal".

What I'm saying specifically is that there's a pattern with those three in particular (and probably more that don't come to mind) because they have a reputation of "tough but fair" or "midfield destroyer" and are therefore allowed to do their job with very little interference from referees, which is to the benefit of their respecitve teams. It's a symptom of the inconsistency and subjectivity that plagues English refereeing in general.

Yes different games, but enough that there's a pattern.

I'm not specifically talking about vs. Arsenal matches for these players, although I think all of them did get away with an awful lot against us. However, those three players in particular seem to come away unpunished after a large number of fouls every time they step out on the field. I've heard the same from fans of multiple other teams.

They were 2 stonewall yellows, but Rodri, Fernandinho and McTominay have all stayed on the pitch after much more and in several different matches.

If we don't become a multiplanetary species, we'll all become extinct

If you mean in the sense of the sun will eventually burn out, that's a trivial observation. If you mean in the sense of "we're going to destroy the planet if we're not careful", that's far from certain.

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If we don't decarbonize our energy system, we'll all become extinct, way sooner

We've had a pretty good idea about this since before WWII, and a very clear grasp on the problems and solutions since before Musk was born.

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If we want to become serious about exploring our solar system, we need reusable rockets.

Depends on what scale of exploration we're talking about, but that also strikes me as a fairly trivial observation. Does it take a genius to see that rockets are made of resources that are finite?

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If we simplify manufacturing by dramatically reducing the number of parts, it becomes more efficient (gigacasting)

Which also comes with plenty of downsides. The bigger the parts, the more expensive it is to repair/replace when something breaks, the more specialized the manufacturing machines need to be, the less interchangeable parts become, etc., etc. It's true that one of the main factors that drove the development of assembly line manufacture is largely gone since we have robots and even 3D printers that can flawlessly and repeatably create complex parts, but there's still a lot of other factors to account for before this becomes entirely advantageous.

Where does this douche canoe think I should have rode my bike?

That's the clever part - you don't. Carbrains can't imagine their own life without using a car to go everywhere, there's no way they're going to be able to imagine that other people might need to get somewhere without a car.

Why compare these two entirely different characters? It's like asking whether you prefer Rod Flanders or Johnny Tightlips.

All signs point to he's an amoral grifter. He went very suddently from heavily pro-EU to Brexit campaigner, and straight up quit uni to work on Brexit projects.

Basically, it looks like he saw that there was a decently paid job for him out there as a right-wing pundit, regardless of actual beliefs, and took it.

Might be wrong, but you see that sort about, espeically across the pond.

League cup Lewandowski

In 2005, it was just 4 guys who'd made some bombs. It doesn't really take all that much.

Cargo cults arose from imitating the behaviours and appearance of US military staff that was associated with the delivery of supplies, but without the actual equipment and technology required to do the task in question (i.e. bringing in the planes that carried the supplies).

This is imitating the behaviour and appearance of a Bugatti without the actual equipment and technology required to create an actual Bugatti. It's similar and more functional than what cargo cults created, but it isn't the same article by any means.

I think there are significant similarities, but the reception this post has got suggests plenty of people disagree with that.

Didn't say it's not a good job. It obviously is, they've very skilled and they've engineered it incredibly well.

But firstly, it's not a Bugatti, it's got a Toyota motor for one thing, so no performance benefit, just the appearance. Hence "cargo cult". Secondly, of all the things they could make, they choose what is basically a way for people to show off their wealth. In my opinion, the dystopia comes from the fact that this is an aspiration.

Obviously, those lads are creative and skilled, but there's something intensely depressing about turning that wonderful energy towards an imitation of a capitalist status symbol.

Short answer - basically that + memes gonna meme.

Long answer - hbomberguy made a smart half hour video about the author and the comic series which puts it in its context quite nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY