The Off Topic Topic

[derspiess]

Unless they plan on moving the coal around on trucks...which would be ridiculously inefficient.

Also annoying when you're stuck behind the coal truck and it's going 10 mph up an incline #wvproblems

[Josquius]

Well all coal mines need railway lines. Unless they plan on moving the coal around on trucks...which would be ridiculously inefficient.

The plan specifically called for trucks rumbling along 30mph roads, past a school.

Thatcher ripped up our railway line 😔

[Savonarola]

Well all coal mines need railway lines. Unless they plan on moving the coal around on trucks...which would be ridiculously inefficient.

I've seen them do that in Colombia; though only over a fairly short distance from rail head to port (and, of course, Colombia: where environmental, health and safety laws are just suggestions).  In Australia I saw companies haul iron by truck from mine to port; well over 100 Km.  That's in the desert, where they have long straight highways and can fit trucks with three trailers.

Coal isn't worth very much right now; I'd be surprised if anyone was planning on opening a new mine using underground mining.

[The Brain]

It's not just ugly. It also lacks the same positive jobs impact and is considerably worse for the environment.
They actually wanted to do it in a field near my place and have trucks going past at all hours of the day. That one was stopped.
Big difference between being opposed to closing mines on which dozens of communities depend in the 1980s and not liking the idea of a bunch of outsiders coming in, and stripping the land bare to no positive gain for the people nearby. And in 2018 at that.
Just look at how succesful wealthy areas are at stopping railway lines that will benefit the whole country vs out of sight out of mind villages like these being completely scarred.

You have a problem with outsiders?

[The Brain]

It does make sense for the UK to revert to coal since they're leaving nuclear agreements without any credible replacement agreements on the horizon. Of course medical isotopes may be harder to replace with coal (maybe the plan is leeches?), but I'm sure the UK thought this through before they did anything rash.

[Eddie Teach]

Err, they can buy the same things and pay a tariff?

[The Brain]

Err, they can buy the same things and pay a tariff?

Joke?

[dps]

Thatcher ripped up our railway line 😔

Wouldn't have guessed that she was up for that much manual labor.

[The Brain]

Oh apparently the IAEA accepted the UK's draft safeguards. Yay! Now they just have to be implemented I guess, something's that a wee bit behind schedule I think.

[Josquius]

I thought I'd discovered an awesome recipe with mirin, soy sauce, tandori masala, lentils and noodles.

It turns out it gives me the shits

[Savonarola]

I was listening to a podcast where the speakers were discussing Cato the Elder's phrase "Carthago delenda est."  (Yes, I know, it's really Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.)  The delenda (or delendam) in that phrase is a gerundive; a verbal form which we don't have in English, but roughly translated as something to be verb.  In Cato's case Carthage is something to be destroyed.  The speakers went on to explain that two names we use in English; Amanda and Miranda are gerundive forms of the Latin verbs Amare (to love) and Mirare (to gaze).  Amanda is someone to be loved and Miranda is someone to be gazed upon.

[Malthus]

I was listening to a podcast where the speakers were discussing Cato the Elder's phrase "Carthago delenda est."  (Yes, I know, it's really Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.)  The delenda (or delendam) in that phrase is a gerundive; a verbal form which we don't have in English, but roughly translated as something to be verb.  In Cato's case Carthage is something to be destroyed.  The speakers went on to explain that two names we use in English; Amanda and Miranda are gerundive forms of the Latin verbs Amare (to love) and Mirare (to gaze).  Amanda is someone to be loved and Miranda is someone to be gazed upon.

Heh in architecture a mirador is a turret used to get a nice view ...

[The Brain]

I was listening to a podcast where the speakers were discussing Cato the Elder's phrase "Carthago delenda est."  (Yes, I know, it's really Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.)  The delenda (or delendam) in that phrase is a gerundive; a verbal form which we don't have in English, but roughly translated as something to be verb.  In Cato's case Carthage is something to be destroyed.  The speakers went on to explain that two names we use in English; Amanda and Miranda are gerundive forms of the Latin verbs Amare (to love) and Mirare (to gaze).  Amanda is someone to be loved and Miranda is someone to be gazed upon.

Heh in architecture a mirador is a turret used to get a nice view ...

[celedhring]

I was listening to a podcast where the speakers were discussing Cato the Elder's phrase "Carthago delenda est."  (Yes, I know, it's really Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.)  The delenda (or delendam) in that phrase is a gerundive; a verbal form which we don't have in English, but roughly translated as something to be verb.  In Cato's case Carthage is something to be destroyed.  The speakers went on to explain that two names we use in English; Amanda and Miranda are gerundive forms of the Latin verbs Amare (to love) and Mirare (to gaze).  Amanda is someone to be loved and Miranda is someone to be gazed upon.

Heh in architecture a mirador is a turret used to get a nice view ...

Well no need to go all the way back to Latin, in Spanish it literally means "place to look from".

[Malthus]

I was listening to a podcast where the speakers were discussing Cato the Elder's phrase "Carthago delenda est."  (Yes, I know, it's really Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.)  The delenda (or delendam) in that phrase is a gerundive; a verbal form which we don't have in English, but roughly translated as something to be verb.  In Cato's case Carthage is something to be destroyed.  The speakers went on to explain that two names we use in English; Amanda and Miranda are gerundive forms of the Latin verbs Amare (to love) and Mirare (to gaze).  Amanda is someone to be loved and Miranda is someone to be gazed upon.

Heh in architecture a mirador is a turret used to get a nice view ...

Well no need to go all the way back to Latin, in Spanish it literally means "place to look from".

True. I just thought it was neat, a connection I'd never made before.