The Off Topic Topic

[Grey Fox]

Excellent opportunity to post this again.
https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program.aspx

Albertans have enjoyed living without the menace of rats since 1950 when the Rat Control Program was established. Alberta's rat-free status means there is no resident population of rats and they are not allowed to establish themselves. It does not mean we never get rats. Small infestations occasionally occur, but when found, the rats are isolated and eradicated through proven control methods.

[viper37]

Excellent opportunity to post this again.
https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program.aspx

Albertans have enjoyed living without the menace of rats since 1950 when the Rat Control Program was established. Alberta's rat-free status means there is no resident population of rats and they are not allowed to establish themselves. It does not mean we never get rats. Small infestations occasionally occur, but when found, the rats are isolated and eradicated through proven control methods.

Basically, they trample the people's basic freedoms to eliminate a nuisance?   How totalitarian of them.

[celedhring]

Watching some Rule the Waves 3 let's plays sent me down the rabbit hole of pre-dreadnought warship history, and I found this amazing tidbit 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863)

The monitor was sold for scrap three years later as part of a scheme where the Navy Department evaded the Congressional refusal to order new ships by claiming that the Civil War-era ship was being repaired while building a new monitor of the same name.

[Barrister]

Stolen from Languish's own Brazen on Twitter:

"How Ukraine's dam collapse could become the country's 'Chernobyl'"

https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1668083952039362561

Err, who wants to tell them...

[Josquius]

Twitter context report on that. First I've seen such a thing.

[crazy canuck]

Err, who wants to tell them...

 

[grumbler]

Watching some Rule the Waves 3 let's plays sent me down the rabbit hole of pre-dreadnought warship history, and I found this amazing tidbit 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Miantonomoh_(1863)

The monitor was sold for scrap three years later as part of a scheme where the Navy Department evaded the Congressional refusal to order new ships by claiming that the Civil War-era ship was being repaired while building a new monitor of the same name.

That happened a lot, and led to some confusion later.  The USS Constellation museum ship in Baltimore was claimed, for decades, to be the original 1797 USS Constellation, because there were documents from the Portsmouth Naval Yard describing how the money was spent on the 1854 "modernization" of the 1797 frigate. 

Added up, these materials for modernization equaled the entire material included in the 1854 sloop.

It got to the point where one of the people working for the Constellation Museum was sent to prison for altering some documents in the National Archives to attempt to prove it was the 1797 frigate, and for stealing other documents showing that this was not true.  Luckily, the stolen documents were not destroyed and were eventually recovered.

[Josquius]

Anyone in the market for a lovely mansion?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136025999#/

Check out photo number 2...

[Sheilbh]

That's the county I lived in as a kid

Although we were on the north side, not near Wick

[crazy canuck]

Anyone in the market for a lovely mansion?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136025999#/

Check out photo number 2...

I have been looking for a place on an island 

[Valmy]

Well I guess everything in the UK is technically on an island.

[crazy canuck]

Well I guess everything in the UK is technically on an island.

Exactly

[Barrister]

Anyone in the market for a lovely mansion?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/136025999#/

Check out photo number 2...

That's the kind of place that if it were in southern England would go for hundreds of millions.

I don't remember that castle specifically but I remember driving up that coastal highway on our way to John o Groats and the ferry to Orkney - absolutely beautiful scenery.

It's just so far away from any large towns.  It's got to be, what, 3 hours from Inverness - and that's not exactly that big a city to begin with.

[Josquius]

My thinking was actually more "might as well just throw the 25 mil straight in the sea"

And is it just me or did they strip the photos

But yeah. Really remote. Inverness is as far as I've got and to get back even from there I had to make a stop halfway down Scotland. Scotland is deceptively big.

[mongers]

My thinking was actually more "might as well just throw the 25 mil straight in the sea"

And is it just me or did they strip the photos

But yeah. Really remote. Inverness is as far as I've got and to get back even from there I had to make a stop halfway down Scotland. Scotland is deceptively big.

It's to the UK as Norway is to Scandinavia.