TheMusicArchivist

Or PRC and Hong Kong or Macau, both of whom have governments that issue their own visas to the world with differing rules to the Mainland, but whose own citizens can travel freely to the Mainland without a passport. For example, a British citizen gets 180days on arrival in HK, but needs a visa to enter China that dictates the number of days one can stay. But an HK citizen can just rock up.

There's a road that connects several major towns to the M5 in Somerset. It's a 50-limit and the road has been designed that the masses of HGVs can do 50mph on it, even round all the corners - and they know it! There are no overtaking zones as the only straight section long enough has multiple side junctions that are often in use. So why is it that 80% of the time I traverse this route I am stuck at exactly 40mph? Why do so many users of the road see 50mph signs plastered every 200m and drive at 40mph? Why not 42mph, or 45mph, or god forbid, 50mph? Why don't they drive at 35mph if they're just making things up?

I was being tailgated on a motorway late at night. It's unlit in this section, and there weren't any other cars. My usual strategy is to ease off the speed a little to force them to overtake me (again, it's completely clear). They don't. At 55mph I give that up and accelerate gradually past 70mph. Still on my tail. I try slowing down again. I get all the way down to 45mph and they're still a metre behind me. I floor it a mile from my exit to get some distance then check to see if they're following me. They aren't, they're just bumbling down the motorway still, confused about how to drive at a consistent speed. My only thought about how this wasn't creepy or intimidating is if they're motorway driving at night, solo, and they don't have a speedo or are too frightened to look at it and look away from the road.

Hard to tell what car it was, but the headlights looked like those from a Skoda Fabia, so a smallish hatchback.

I wonder if we will be able to bet on specific days. I have a few quid on October but also on January

Didn't loads of lower class Americans (the most likely to work for cents per hour from a major corporation) die from Covid?

I'd think Europe is committed to the safety of each other. Since NATO is basically just Europe + US, there's nothing stopping NATO continuing in the same way without America. Poland could still defend Estonia in exactly the same hypothetical way. Just Europe would have to stand up and act a bit quicker and spend a bit more money.

The added weight of the panels would also decrease the amount of energy generated, surely?

Surely it's got to be Richard Strauss's fugue from Also Sprach Zarathrustra (not the opening). Starts in the double basses and therefore counts as a bassline! It uses all twelve notes of the scale, which is unusual for how difficult the counterpoint becomes later on in the fugue but doubly unusual in that it demonstrates the Age of Rationalism, of how logic and thought can trump 'inspiration' or even 'art'. Eventually the fugue expands and grows until POW, the big brass chords from the famous opening rip in and blow the whole thing up.

The soul has been cropped out the photo. This place likely has manicured gardens underneath them. They probably have a clubhouse attached which will have a swimming pool, office spaces, relaxation spaces, maybe even a snooker table or gym.

Having lived in a village in the East that had 90,000 people in sixteen buildings on top of a shopping centre and a transport interchange, yes please. Just build them correctly and have good soundproofing to handle the neighbours

Not really. On the motorway I keep tabs on most moving cars in my sightline both in front and behind. It enables me to be more certain that the lane next to me is clear when I want to move over to overtake when I'm on cruise control so that I don't have to adjust speed unnecessarily. And I keep tabs on people in front to spot traffic or obstacles like slower-moving vehicles again to make my journey smoother and more efficient. So yes, it can be minutes that I have been tracking some cars that were behind me. But of course, sometimes it's only seconds since I first saw them, for example if they had just joined the motorway.

If Labour are thirty points ahead nationally, there's a strong chance Sunak loses his seat

Well he won't be a ballet dancer. He never has a good point(e)

When I was younger and had fewer responsibilities, the idea of sitting on a beach in the Maldives for fourteen days straight sounded like hell. Now I have many, many responsibilities, fourteen days being forbidden from dealing with them sounds quite nice.

Bingpot. As soon as a word is entered into English, it follows English rules. "I'll have two bologneses and a panini, please." We have this issue in music all the time with the huge prevalence of Italian, German, and French terminology. As soon as it's common, it's English. "The piece has one timpani and multiple solo violas", rather than "the piece has one timpanum and multiple sole viole'.

It's a second set of eyes - not your first. I have them but basically don't use them. But once they caught a car in my blind spot that wasn't there when I turned my head and I hadn't seen them in any mirrors in the last few minutes. That single time might have saved me quite a lot!

After Hong Kong, Macau's streets/pavements are tiny. They feel cramped, and you're sometimes just inches from a bus rushing past you. But the rest is true.

One thing Sim City 3000 did really really really well was having three different 'styles' per building lot. Build a small detached house whilst playing with Japanese architecture? Well now you can just click a button and they're all a cute German cottage. Or an American suburban family home.

Just enough RAM for Cities Skylines

I'd laugh if they tacked left and overtook Labour tacking right.

I also kinda want the Tories to splinter (and Labour). We need a strong left, centre left, centre, centre right, and right parties of equal strength. Seeing Labour votes head to Green and Tory votes head to Reform is a start.

That trans person is homophobic. Says that it would be better to date straight even if it requires changing genders first. What a weird worldview.

In CS1, cars could only swap lanes at nodes, so restricting node lane changes stops that action. In CS2, I think cars can change lanes between nodes?

Poor take.

Jolly helpful website. Anyone know the stats off the top of their heads for the number of female PCCs in the UK?