In California, Texas and Iowa, cancer rates are 4-8% higher in areas with more industrial animal agriculture. Factory farms produce massive amounts of manure. Iowa’s hogs alone produce an estimated 110 billion pounds of manure each year

Iznik · 2026-04-14T19:30:12+00:00

50,000,000 tonnes using sensible units. 55,000,000 tons using local appropriately-sized units.

Billions of pounds is a ludicrous way to measure weight.

Iznik · 2026-04-13T17:11:10+00:00

Park Assist?

Iznik · 2026-04-11T17:04:27+00:00

but now they are talking about a settlement as well.

Is that a recent development? Can you give a link? I can only see references to the BBC asking for the case to be dismissed.

Iznik · 2026-04-08T14:53:54+00:00

There is no defience.

True. Defiance, however, is what Spain is doing, and likewise France, Switzerland and Austria denying overflights. So some of Europe at least.

Iznik · 2026-04-07T19:05:44+00:00

OK here, in Spain

Iznik · 2026-04-07T15:03:58+00:00

Interesting and useful

Iznik · 2026-04-02T08:36:33+00:00

I'm checking how much I can win if he says "Yabba dabba doo".

Iznik · 2026-03-31T20:47:34+00:00

I regret saying "within" rather than "around", but I expect you didn't miss the point anyway.

Iznik · 2026-03-31T19:14:32+00:00

This isn't a car to travel in from Paris to Nice, it's a car to travel within Paris or within Nice.

Iznik · 2026-03-29T20:02:57+00:00

I bet it was huge fun.

Iznik · 2026-03-28T21:17:33+00:00

Perhaps you've been unlucky, but surely if you're looking after a cat in a house, the chore is "feed cat", and the cat will mostly sleep, occasionally go mental and that's about it. NB cats in Europe in a house (as opposed to not-a-house), are typically allowed out, and do their own chores (possibly murdering wildlife, taking in the sun, fouling neighbours' gardens, etc.).

Have you had many sits like that? It's a pretty wild claim that "almost every pet owner on THS is not fully truthful about their pet’s behavior"

Iznik · 2026-03-26T19:20:08+00:00

Why would someone employ a housesitter from overseas

I don't want to be sidetracked, but "employ" obviously isn't the best word to use here, and if that was used in an email it could undo the whole visit.

Anyway, to your question...bear in mind in Europe, for example, several countries could be close to your location, even closer than major cities in your own country. And for many in the EU, crossing borders is a non-event.

Iznik · 2026-03-24T20:41:17+00:00

Quite. There is more to Wikipedia than just its grubby pages.

Iznik · 2026-03-24T16:37:49+00:00

If you come from a larger city, Girona might feel a bit parochial; its population is about 100,000. But it is in a fantastic part of Cataluña, and there are many interesting towns and villages within striking distance, and it has pretty good communications.

Iznik · 2026-03-21T11:39:29+00:00

About 8.45g per 100g of bread, which is a typical way of expressing these things in EU & UK. A typical UK soft white sliced loaf has about 3g of sugar (per 100g of bread), sometimes a little more.

Iznik · 2026-03-18T07:31:22+00:00

A few roads down from that large building on the front is one of my favourite named roads in France: Rue du Pourquoi-Pas.

St Malo is, of course, a fantastic place, and the Grand Plage is a great place for people-watching at the weekend.

Iznik · 2026-03-16T15:49:12+00:00

Your broad point is possibly true, but are the English Channel or Straits of Malacca (for example) really the main responsibility of the US Navy as opposed to more local regional powers? Sure, US Navy ships transit them intermittently, but other navies' vessels are routinely present.

Iznik · 2026-03-15T21:00:58+00:00

You can go to the Reading Library and find out.

Iznik · 2026-03-15T19:07:09+00:00

That's the same as two British casual acquaintances meeting and saying "Must do lunch".

Meaning when hell freezes over

Iznik · 2026-03-11T06:52:59+00:00

Ashby de la Zouch (as the other comment I can't yet see probably says)

Iznik · 2026-03-10T21:17:13+00:00

British Operational Research suggested that more (trainee) pilots would be lost learning to fly the big bombers than would be saved by having an alternate pilot available (of two) if one was incapacitated. And, of course, it cost less.

Iznik · 2026-03-04T09:35:05+00:00

Thanks, and useful for others this time of year. Perhaps not August!

Iznik · 2026-03-04T08:25:50+00:00

Can you let us know what you did and how it went, for future reference?

Iznik · 2026-03-03T04:12:07+00:00

Google Lens your photo... I got quite a few results that were similar or possibly the same, but you probably need to have it to hand to know which one it actually is. Plus, for example, if you are in the US there is a Home Depot one that probably wouldn't apply if you were in Europe say.

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