The facts were that coal was getting more and more expensive to mine in the U.K. it had been doing so for generations. At the same time world coal prices were collapsing (due to vast, open cast pits)… (View Post)

Introduce mandatory frock coats, waistcoats and top hats for railway engineers. Complete with watch chains, for the pocket watches. Otherwise, how will we know that the Oxford to Paddington train is … (View Post)

Winston Churchill thought you could. The phrase was first (IIRC) used about the Congo and the activities of King Leopold, there. (View Post)

The absurdity is already with us - AI written documents are summarised by AI. Then the summaries are fed into other summaries. It's an empire of bullshit and it's expanding rapidly. (View Post)

"Concerning Function: A Treatise on the Natural Order in Society, the Bible of the Functionalist movement, was first published in 1930. It claimed to be a scientifically accurate theory of socia… (View Post)