As I discussed with a Czech builder on the weekend - the shit HMO situation is being discovered, because graduates in white collar jobs are being offered accommodation in worse and worse places. They… (View Post)

Ironically, much of the precedent for anonymous law enforcement by federal agents comes from the Civil Rights era. You've got to hand it to the MAGA crowd. They've finally made the predicti… (View Post)

The Soviet programs were all started from madder doodlings of German scientists. Which is why Scud missiles look very like a V2 Because they were designed by the designers of the V2 and used their pl… (View Post)

And cheapest of all to deal with properly run countries with decent economies etc. See Australia. Tim Worstall tells stories of how dodgy middlemen would try and sell him raw ore for cobalt etc. at p… (View Post)

As an experiment - tell them it’s a titanium alloy framed bike. And that you, as a chemist have set up and amusing function* on the tracking system. *titanium fires are generally regarded as inexting… (View Post)