Hamartia @ Hamartia @lemmy.world

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That's a design feature.

Ding-a-ling a-ling-a-ling

I also did a handful of longer tours about europe back then too. Much of the tips I picked up related to travelling about in a world without mobile phones.

These days I can't cycle for long periods since I damaged my shoulder. The discomfort just takes all the pleasure out of it.

I'm sure you'll make many fond memories on your own journeys.

I used to tour Ireland in the 90's and I found that it's best to wear whatever dries the fastest and covers your body.

To that end I found trekking sandles the best footwear for preventing trench foot. And covering up for the sun (Long sleeves, fingerless gloves, shorts that go below the knee) as the rain and sweating will reduce the effectiveness of your sunblock.

I got the worst sunburn of my life cycling from Belfast to Rosslaire over three days yet it was raining most of the time.

I was brought up wearing shorts all year round so you may feel the cold more than I did. I can only remember one autumnal evening where I especially felt bitterly cold cycling into a chilling northerly wind coming off the Atlantic.

That's a perspective issue though.

If you're not a white middle-class American and have had a much tougher experience over this time period and say that was largely down to the parasitic hubris of many white middle-class Americans. Then you might be entitled to a much dimmer view at an attempt at brevity that ignores your viscerally darker cultural history.

The way that most propaganda works is by repeating it's message whenever/whereever it can and silencing alternative messages. At a certain stage the message is self sustaining (becomes cultural) and the duped populace will police it themselves.

Yes the meme is a wry look at a truism that will resonate with plenty of us on here, and that is fine. But it is also OK for other people to stand up and give their cultural perspective. Otherwise it just comes off as you're just replicating that toxic behaviour of policing your cultural propaganda.

All of that is true, especially for white middle-class Americans. But, and I think this is what the previous poster is getting at, he further you get from the imperial core the greater the chance of an alternate experience.

It's Tuesday, not Friday.

Not to discount the high chance that they're just imbeciles, but the stated reason maybe bullshit to cover for some other clandestine fuckery.

For example, they wanted to extrajudicially assassinate someone of interest but couldn't do so without a huge collateral death toll.

Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

This one by the BBC is good. It's basically a visual audio book but the quality of the delivery brings it to Dickensian life.

I particularly like it because it reminds me of a couple of similar plays that I went to about ten years ago.

Isn't he just saying that god isn't an anthropomorphic being described and narrated by organized religions but is instead embodied by the observable nature of matter and time as described by science?

One of the things that helped with the relative prosperity of Belfast is that George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall, had amassed huge gambling debts so the family had to sell off their extensive property holdings. This was about the mid nineteenth century. There was something of an industrial boom up until the partition of Ireland.

At least

The economist has ever been part of the machinery of the ratchet effect.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is most instructional in this regard.

At what cost!!?

Ours aren't so noisy as there's a family of five carrion crows and and a family of four magpies that control our garden. So the Jays have to swoop in quietly if they want a nut.

About eight years ago a Jay would come in that could mimic a cats meow. He's sadly long gone now. He lost all of his head feathers, looked a bit like a vulture, then we soon never saw him again.

I've been subscribed to Private Eye for about 22 years now. I don't think it has changed all that much in that time. It's not as apolitical as it would claim I think because it suffers from a little bit of Capitalist Realism. It doesn't pull its punches regardless of who it sets its sights on however I feel it fails to tie together overarching themes.

Dear readers that antisemitism was describing the actions of the genocidal state of Israel.