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Not even that's the case. Wikipedia blocks shared IPs. They even blocked the National Library of Scotland which has an official Wikipedian.

It is probably a reference to upland areas of Southland. Some of those do qualify as tundra although most of it is forested.

I think the Southland reference is to upland areas. Invercargill itself is temperate (but often cold) and has a lot of trees, as does Stewart Island to the south. I've camped in both places.

How do they ensure there are no parasites in there? Sun alone won't kill them.

Wikipedia has been the default result on Google for most things for years now.

Hence the "ironically". Japan probably could make nukes if it had access to materials. Its science and engineering, and economy, are all good enough.

I have been aware of this character for some years. However, it is oral tradition so hard to substantiate.

Also icebergs do come into New Zealand waters, and even get grounded on the continental shelf especially the larger ones which break off in slabs the size of small countries. We know that Polynesians got as far south as the Auckland Islands from archaeological remains.

Just a reminder that Marxists have been saying we are in supposed late-stage capitalism for 150 years now.

The current set up isn't really that "capitalist", since in this case the state and the taxpayer is going to pay for a rockshelter going to a national park, again owned by the state. That said this is a lot better than what happened to the Aral Sea under Marxist government.

London is quite different. It has no significant hills and is built on clay.

Scotland, on the other hand, could do with a lot more tunnels (especially on the Rest and Be Thankful route) but it never seems to be considered. The Faroe Islands have so many tunnels that one island is nicknamed the piccolo.

The USSR used to claim that Russia had invented everything (India often does the same). In some cases they did have a genuine claim. There were certainly pioneers of rocketry and aviation in the Russian Empire who were overlooked in the west.

The joke in the films about Shakespeare sounding better in the original Klingon came from people who claimed Shakespeare was a German. (Colonel Gaddafi claimed Shakespeare was an Arabic called Sheikh Zubair.)

There has been serious talk of Australia having nuclear submarine (with missiles).

There are quite a few countries capable of developing nukes, with many of them being in NATO already. Outside of NATO and Iran, there are countries in South America that probably could. Maybe somewhere like Indonesia, or ironically Japan. There was talk of Taiwan having some at one point.

The article points towards Indira Gandhi's government.

She gets pushed hard on YouTube. Her videos are continually being suggested to me, along with Hannah Fry, Jimmy Carr, Jimmy Kimmell and various others.

A lot of European towns and cities are far older than their official incorporation date or founding. I can think of ones that are built on obvious defensive and trading sites that appear to date back thousands of years

I still don't believe Europe ever got over WW1. So many of its issues result from it.

There was a prophecy in the Koran that Islam would conquer the Romans and Muslims see the capture of Byzantium/Constantinople as its fulfilment.

Byzantium was certainly a continuation of Rome and its subjects called themselves Romans. It all depends on whether you consider the Ottoman Empire to be a continuation of Byzantium or not (there are arguments both ways).

The European colonies in eastern North America were started by the successor states of the Roman provinces of Gaul, Hispania, Batavia and Britannia. Two of these spoke Latin derived languages, and the other two spoke languages heavily indebted to Romance languages. (Much of English core vocabulary is either French or Latin in origin — 60% according to one estimate.)

Other Roman influences on the USA include Christianity and to a lesser extent Judaism (since the major US versions come out of post-Roman Judaism.)

The USA is the product of the British empire which consciously modelled itself on Rome. It was influenced by various European countries, including England and France, which mostly developed in the Roman Empire's former territories.

The European Renaissance and the Enlightenment both used Roman and Greek ideas as inspiration. You can see this in early US architecture, and the models for some institutions such as the Senate. Some of this was ironically as a revolt against English institutions (even though England and Wales were successors of a Roman province).

The early USA's language(s) and Judaeo-Christian heritage are partly products of the Roman Empire. (Spanish most definitely is, and French is. English is heavily influenced by French and Latin.)

Many of our current crises are consciously created. I was about to say artificially created, but that would include mistakes. We have people who pay large amounts of money to cause disruption and instability, not just Putin supporters but billionaires. And they design some of these crises with a prepared solution that hands them more influence.

One of the ultimate examples of false economy!

Evidence suggests that moa were not quite as depicted, with their necks fully extended all the time, but more lowered. They may have used that to get to higher branches but not when walking. (Much like emu and cassowary rather than an ostrich). That said moa could be huge. I've stood next to skeletons of a few of them and they were bigger than me.

The usual claim is that Haast's Eagle fed mostly on moa. I have wondered whether it fed also on seals and larger sea birds. The other problem is that most of New Zealand was covered with dense bush and forest, and probably moa lived in that, rather than open grasslands in much of their range (like ostriches), coming out into the open on large river beds and lake shorelines to drink. Most of New Zealand's present-day grasslands have been created by humans (especially since the 19th century.)

That said, I do believe the stories of them attacking humans. If they were apex predators and unused to humans, they may have seen them as potential prey.

Depends where you are. Off the top of my head:

* the Balkan Wars (Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo)

* various parts of the former Soviet Union (several in the Caucasus, Ukraine)

* the Troubles in Northern Ireland (which came close to being a civil war)

* the Basque Insurgency

* Cyprus

* Greek troubles

* Mafia wars in southern Italy. Trouble in Sardinia and Corsica next door too.

It is a major problem wherever one finds oneself in it. Billions of angry poor people with little to do are going to be even more of a problem to the elite than they are already. Most of the solutions are going to be extreme, and some are frightening.

UBI sounds great on paper, but you have to be in with whoever or whatever is doling it, and it hands them power over you.

Marx doesn't anticipate cybernetics at all. He has no opinion on transhumanism, genetic modification, and as far as I know, not much on space exploration.

His ideas are built around an industrial working class, which may vanish completely as an economic unit within the next few decades. In previous eras, there was a need for the rulong class to have a market and a human workforce.

Old World: Here is a haunted castle built a thousand years ago.

The USA: Here's a haunted toy shop that opened ten years ago.

"Under capitalism, it doesn't go to the people who did the labour."

Automation is removing the human labour factor rapidly, so that no longer holds true. Karl Marx's writings never anticipated cybernetics, transhumanism and genetic engineering despite his followers believing he was some kind of infallible prophet.

The machines will build themselves, repair themselves and run themselves.

As I say in the other post, it is unevenly populated (much like Honshu). The thing is that parts of Scotland have been deliberately depopulated by the aristocracy (and to a lesser extent government).

I come from northern Scotland. I've never really thought of it as one island. Even England has some notable ones like the Isle of Wight and Lindisfarne. (Wales and Northern Ireland have Anglesey and Rathlin.)

When you get to the Hebrides and Northern Isles, the scales are still pretty big. Most people don't realise that Shetland, for example, is a hundred miles from end to end (including Fair Isle).

It's also the best part of a hundred miles from Inverness to John O' Groats, and the road is bad beyond Easter Ross. Unlike the Faroe Islands, there has been little attempt to create tunnels... Just small bridges and causeways.

The smaller islands can get cut off in storms and power cuts come happen.

Knoydart and Moidart only used to be reachable by boat, despite being on the mainland. (You can walk but it's not easy.) They were so remote that the Protestant Reformation never reached them.

Even in the south west you have to factor in distance. For example, Campbelltown looks close to Glasgow on the map but takes at least three or four hours by bus. Tarbert to Campbelltown is thirty miles. The Isle of Jura to the west takes a long time to get to, unless you have a helicopter. (A shout to Galloway which is as far south as you can get in Scotland, and gets further south than Newcastle upon Tyne, but still has awful roads in many places.)

Places like Moidart, Knoydart, Kintyre, Glenelg, and even Cowal and Caithness function a bit like islands despite being on the mainland. Deliveries and utilities are horrible in these areas and they are being discriminated against by private delivery etc (the Royal Mail when it functioned better was a blessing to them.)

Of course there are parts of major continents which are much more remote, but these are bad enough. I've spent time in Australia where distances are incredible. Even Tasmania which looks small on the map is slightly smaller than Ireland.

The UK is unevenly populated and it certainly isn't the one island. In Scotland alone, for example, we have had dozens of inhabited islands varying from one or two people up to thousands. We also have places with low population density due to the Highland Clearances (historical ethnic cleansing) and terrain.

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