Markqz
Markqz t1_j9as8do wrote
Reply to Gritting routes are ‘sexist’ says Cambridgeshire highways chief and ‘must change’ by Bald__egg
Is "gritting" the same as "salting", or are they actually putting down dirt? Or something else entirely?
Markqz t1_ix054mz wrote
Reply to There was a dead bird inside our AirBnB by fanseman
Bird and Bath?
Markqz t1_it8447c wrote
Reply to [OC] US counties required to provide non-English ballots under the Voting Rights Act, by number of languages by USAFacts_Official
I see a lot of negativity, and I think people aren't understanding. The counties that are not offering ballots in other languages are the same ones where it has been determined that less than 5% of the voters speak some particular language. It is not that some counties arbitrarily choose not to create material in some language.
In the U.S., voting is usually administered by the county government. Ballots include federal, state, county, and city choices -- not just Federal choices. The counties have to foot the bill. Asking that every single county, no matter their population, print ballots in, say, the top 30 languages of the world would be unnecessarily expensive and not accomplish anything.
This is a map of Democracy in action -- not a map of oppression, as some redditors seem to believe.
Markqz t1_it81pdt wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Is building dams a learned behaviour for beavers? by Snoo-82132
You could put little earmuffs on them. It would drive the tourists wild, too.
Markqz t1_it81fhr wrote
Reply to comment by BloodshotPizzaBox in Is building dams a learned behaviour for beavers? by Snoo-82132
That is, they go through the motions of dam-building, even without materials available. Sort of like beaver mimes.
Markqz t1_iryrpn0 wrote
Maybe instead of investing in fusion, which we don't know if it will ever be feasible, we should invest in deep drilling technologies. There's a reliable energy source just 6 to 12 miles below wherever you're sitting now. Yes, I know where you're sitting.
Markqz t1_ir7mqkt wrote
Reply to Russian Scientists Propose Plan to Launch Huge Advertisements Into Orbit Over Cities by kelev11en
I'm thinking that even a cluster of 50 350 square foot satellites at low-earth distance would form just a tiny little smidgen of an image -- not the humongous image used in the article. A low earth orbit satellite circles the planet every 90 minutes, I'd guess the image would only be available for about a quarter of that time, so about 22 minutes, and only at dawn or dusk.
So, overall, it seems more of a prank than a practical advertising scheme.
Markqz t1_ja0rfcn wrote
Reply to Asimov's Foundation Is Bad Literature by Kryptin
You forgot to mention the one-dimensional characters that seem to get re-incarnated over and over. The fact that it promises to tell you something, but then ends abruptly. That the author imagines a galaxy-wide empire but can't imagine women being anything but extras.