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You can do 0-32 just using 5 fingers as a binary register, though

No indeed; but the US government were the only owners, and the operators were all US as well.

It's been done: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Sava... However, the real problem is that shipping owners are a penny-pinching bunch that don't like the idea of the extremely strenuous safety checks required for a nuclear reactor.

It's fine for cargo applications; we run freight trans on Nuclear power all the time. What we don't do is *put the reactor on the train*, because that would be stupid. An Electric Locomotive with OHLE pickup is effectively a Nuclear-powered train, though.

That's the Summoning Dark :) There's an often-used version for the Guarding Dark that is a circle with 5 bars through it. From Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/discworld/...

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

Oh, sweet Jebus.

I knew there was going to be a twist, but I did not foresee this twist coming

It's in Kilburn, Chris. W10 4DU.

Also one of the most popular Discworld tattoo choices; lots of people appreciate the concept

Ocean Colour Scene

"I need ammunition, not a ride" will stand as one of the great defiant lines of history, I think.

Wow, it really is true that Britain and America are two countries divided by a common language. I would never have believed anyone would make canned bread.

Do you mean Rye Bread?

They're doing it as part of a whole thing on the Romans, too:

Just seen that I, Claudius is getting repeated on BBC4 from tonight. If you've not already watched it, you really need to.

"Why do kids need to write essays now that LLMs can write essays?" Because if the LLM writes the essay, NO FUCKER HAS LEARNED A FUCKING THING FROM THE PROCESS.

Projection so powerful, you could screen the Odyssey in 70MM IMAX from it.

This notion that the purpose of writing essays is to have an essay-shaped object to hold at the end of it is just... wild, and incredibly widely held apparently? Have these people never... written an essay?

“Has the Me Too movement gone too far?”