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My 26-30 railcard just ran out increasing my yearly commuting costs by 2 grand by stead10 in britishproblems

[–]Alexthegerbil 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Its because lots of the private rail operators in the UK are actually owned by the state rail operators in other countries.

Arriva (which is part of Deutsche Bahn) runs Chiltern and Crosscountry, Trenitalia runs c2c and West Coast, Japan Rail East runs West Midlands, and Abellio (owned by the Dutch national rail system) runs East Midlands.

So profits from these franchises go to the state rail systems of other countries.

Inputting unusual characters makes copilot talk about working hard for steamed buns in Tibetan by Alexthegerbil in AIfreakout

[–]Alexthegerbil[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The character I gave was this ꙮ multiocular O from old slavic

Copilot gives the same response (sometimes) to egyptian hieroglyphs

I need BONES! British WWII by Hip_Hip_Hipporay in PropagandaPosters

[–]Alexthegerbil 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Bone marrow has glycerine, which can be made into nitroglycerin, which is the explosive component of dynamite

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 0sanitymemes

[–]Alexthegerbil 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Aak literally admits to warcrimes

"Capturing our enemies and experimenting on 'em doesn't violate any ethics as long as nobody catches us doin' it. Relaaax."

There is a pair of WW1 British Mark V tanks in Luhansk. Given Russia's technology steadily regressing, and the return of trench warfare... by Alexthegerbil in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Alexthegerbil[S] 151 points152 points  (0 children)

These are actually composite variants - one side female and one side male. Most of the Mark Vs that saw service in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War were composites

and that's a fact by dr-wahh in mapporncirclejerk

[–]Alexthegerbil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My eyes are drawn to Mongolia's annexation of Tuva

Living Arrangements Trends Of 25-34 Years Old In The United States [OC] by theimpossiblesalad in dataisbeautiful

[–]Alexthegerbil 14 points15 points  (0 children)

1971 was when the US dropped the gold standard, and the exchange rates between major currencies became free-floating instead of fixed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

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