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I feel like a bit of a simpleton but I had pictured the tunnel between France and the UK to have a more even profile. Yes, the vertical and horizontal scales are different but I actually pictured a perfectly straight tunnel. Source: buff.ly/3xhEBYj
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Oh no, I just encountered a German chronicle which describes Ireland as 'one of the English islands' 😬
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Home prices in the UK exceed the cost of building them by more than they ever have, because we have not built enough of them for many decades. A stunning new graph from Prof. John Muellbauer
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I hate to say it, but metric units are french high modernist nonsense favoured by dweeby intellectuals because the neatness of uniform base 10 gives it the aesthetic of rationality. Imperial units are lindy, developed by people for measuring the things that are useful to them.
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