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pete1901 t1_j1v2g08 wrote
Reply to comment by skydivingbear in Putin bans Russian oil exports to countries that imposed price cap -decree by PatientBuilder499
On paper they don't but there are a huge number of off shore ship to ship transfers of oil happening these days which allow circumventing of the rules.
pete1901 t1_j1i6p0z wrote
Reply to comment by PoochyJangleSpanx in Today I learned that Druids gathered Mistletoe using Golden Sickles by darth_nadoma
We used cruise missiles mostly. It just sets the festive mood so well.
pete1901 t1_j1dpqx4 wrote
Reply to comment by varnell_hill in TIL that Vidal Sassoon (his real name) started styling women's hair in wartime London as a teenager, but he took a hiatus at age twenty to join the elite Israeli commando force known as the Palmach. by p38-lightning
I don't think their aim was to allow their victims to walk out of their houses...
>Around Jaffa, Palmach units destroyed houses in Yazur and Salama.
An order dated 3 January 1948 said "The aim is ... to attack northern
part of the village of Salama ... to cause deaths, to blow up houses and
to burn everything possible."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmach#Retaliation_raids
pete1901 t1_j1do2qm wrote
Reply to comment by varnell_hill in TIL that Vidal Sassoon (his real name) started styling women's hair in wartime London as a teenager, but he took a hiatus at age twenty to join the elite Israeli commando force known as the Palmach. by p38-lightning
The Palmach was a paramilitary/ terrorist organisation who were more likely to throw a bomb through your window while you sleep than to fight you in a pitched battle.
pete1901 t1_iye9vu4 wrote
This is why I refuse to buy Prime membership.
pete1901 t1_ixqmsau wrote
Reply to comment by ItsaCommonThingNow in TIL the year is 2079, in Nepal by TheHiveminder
Absolutely negligible. We're talking fractions of a nano second per year.
pete1901 t1_ixqmgy8 wrote
Reply to comment by ItsaCommonThingNow in TIL the year is 2079, in Nepal by TheHiveminder
Given how mountainous Nepal is and the effects of gravitational time dilation, time actually passes slightly faster in Nepal than in lower lying countries.
I'll show myself out...
pete1901 t1_ixgriwt wrote
When the game is this heavily rigged I guess some people just decide not to play...
pete1901 t1_ixcltuu wrote
Reply to Is the future of carbon-capture technology electrochemistry? | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder by ProFoxxxx
It really all depends on how much energy the process uses and how that energy is generated. Current CO2 capture technologies produces several times as much CO2 in their energy use than they capture during operation. Obviously you could say "just use renewables" but unless the local grid is 100% renewable then it will still be causing CO2 generation by forcing other users off the limited renewable energy supply and back to fossil fuels.
pete1901 t1_iui6oxh wrote
Reply to comment by bror313 in Left in isolation: how the online revolution failed our elderly people | As day-to-day services increasingly move to the internet, older and vulnerable people are cut off by SetMau92
Having been my elderly parents' free tech support for many years; I do not envy the people who end up doing this job!
pete1901 t1_is9ernb wrote
Reply to comment by Y0ung_Greg in When you next hear cheerful twittering of birds, you should stop and listen: new study suggests that listening to birdsong reduces anxiety and paranoia by non-number-name
They also run trains on time in Japan which is a novel concept we haven't figured out yet in the UK...
pete1901 t1_j9v12i0 wrote
Reply to comment by daisy0723 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973
Due to modern pubic hair trends, pubic lice are becoming far less numerous too.