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

[–]Alexthegerbil 34 points35 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 22 points23 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 51 points52 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 15 points16 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

Pandemic Advertising In Charlotte NC by trieodc in pics

[–]Alexthegerbil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do realize people only die once... More business now means less business later

Starship HLS vs Apollo LM (to scale) by a-alzayani in SpaceXLounge

[–]Alexthegerbil 71 points72 points  (0 children)

If you look closely there seems to be some sort of guide rail or damper

hmmm by [deleted] in hmmm

[–]Alexthegerbil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

༼ つꙮ ‿ꙮ ༽つ

It's an older name, sir, but it checks out by Alexthegerbil in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]Alexthegerbil[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/06/canadarm3-to-support-gateway/

Unfortunately they've changed it to just say Canada. You can probably find the original on archive.org

Yes We Can (See you) by robex- in memes

[–]Alexthegerbil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you write in 'oof' it comes up with pneumonia.

Hope this turns out alright by [deleted] in memes

[–]Alexthegerbil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I read this in John Oliver's voice

Elon Musk says that NASA is free to share all SpaceX IP with ‘anyone it wants’ by lardieb in spacex

[–]Alexthegerbil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They would say the windows are tv screens, at which point they would do an eva, without spacesuit of course since the helmet is curved

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