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I think it's just an issue with the cars not working on this track. The Monaco Formula E race a few weeks ago looked great

I used to live near an ice cream shop that switched over to doing doughnuts and cookies in the winter

That's fine, that just means the ethical question is now "is accessing it in one of those ways worth the consequences of doing so?" You might well say yes or, as others in these comments have, argue that the consequences are negligible. You might say no. It's still a relevant debate in the topic OP is asking about even if we completely accept your position about which ways of getting access are ethical

I think the question includes a discussion of whether or not that access is worth sending money to the author, right? Like, even if OP completely agrees with your position about the author deserving money for access and also wants access, they may want to both avoid sending money to the author and to avoid stealing it more. Of course you mentioned the possibility of finding it in a library and someone else in the thread suggested finding it second hand, which are probably both preferable solutions here if they are practical

I don't think people expect that you have to agree with everyone you give money to, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to try to avoid sending money to a Holocaust denier specifically for his Holocaust denial

Homebrewing places will sell you hops, that'd probably replicate the flavour without effects

It's actually ingenious, there's no space for the Porsches to spin all the way around like they usually do. It's basically a safety feature!

This is entirely beside the point of the actual article, but I'm kinda fascinated by that choice of photo. At least to me, the negative is barely legible; I can see all the features, but they barely come together as a coherent face in my mind. So I inverted it and suddenly it went from "I understand conceptually that there's a person there" to "hah this guy looks like he'd be either hilarious or completely insufferable"

Specifically not embedding the image so that everyone that wishes to can see the inverted one from the article first https://imgur.com/a/E2Vws3q

It would seem it to me, yeah. Enforcing stringent rules that are, as far as I can tell, completely unwritten is just manufacturing reasons to ban people. Between that, the bizarre Garfield comic edits, the fact that a solid half of the account's entire history is "thank you for creating [descriptor] content!", and the near-total refusal to actually talk to anyone, I have no fucking idea what's going on with that account

This mod does this kind of thing... a lot. Search for "qrstuv" and take a look at other mentions of them in this community

qrstuv does not appear to be a Zionist, though

cos that's a great name, next question

While I was joking, of course, France's economy actually was quite a lot more bigger and more powerful than the UK's up until the industrial revolution and the about a century of everything going very badly for France. France was the most populous country in Europe by a wide margin, and back then that basically was the whole economy. It has quite a lot more land than the UK, and that land is a lot more productive too; the north of Wales and most of Scotland do not make for good farmland. Unlike Germany and Italy it united and centralised quite early, and it just outweighed Spain and the Low Countries the same way it did the UK, so for a long time France had the edge over all of its neighbours.

During the Napoleonic wars, France managed to raise forces that matched the UK, Prussia, Austria, and Spain combined in number. Some of that was due to other factors like how he organised it, but you've still got to have the people available somewhere if you want to match four major powers at once

I mean if you take it seriously we do have plenty of good and interesting food, both in traditional and modern cuisine. Hot spice isn't often a part of it, but there's lots of usage of herbs and milder spices. Laverbread, black pudding, haggis (yes, seriously), Worcestershire sauce, and Cornish herby pasty are all solid examples of very traditional foods that are pretty seasoning-forward without even touching the enormous amount of stuff we picked up from other cultures (like the curries)

That's not to say that we don't frequently earn our terrible culinary reputation. We do. Next to our neighbours like France, Spain, and Italy we just do not have the same level of widespread passion for food, and our habits reflect this. A general lack of adventurousness plagues our palates on a national level

Pfft, you think we invaded everyone for spices to eat them? Absolutely not. We did it so that we could sell them to the French, thereby making the French poorer by exploiting their degenerate addiction to food that tastes nice

Einstein was secretly Scottish the whole time

I didn't actually say what the story was, only the characters you get story from as opposed to getting it from item descriptions. I don't think that "characters reveal plot through dialogue" is really a mark of a poor premise for a film

This is Alaric, in this image firmly telling me that "my" hoodie is in fact his

wars

Yeah, by far. They account for 40+% of the entire world's production, so they're making so much more than anyone else that it's basically a guarantee they're the top per capita too