Wow, nice catch on the hex codes!

Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

When he sings, “Cos mine is”, it gets me right there. See also “How can you mend… this broken man…” 😭

In a nuclear war loads of people wouldn’t die but would love unhappily ever after.

I think it’d be hard to get into the mood at all tbh.

Ah ok - I didn’t know that and that makes sense. So the “mountain” isn’t really as big as it might seem?

Every time I see this photo, I feel like the person on the mountain must have been shopped in later, because they look the wrong scale to me. But apparently it’s completely genuine. Amazing shot if so.

Is your friend related to the person in this song?

Purple and red and yellow and on fire…

If they made history, then they are historic, not historical. Well, they’re historical too, to be fair.

If that was genuinely a typo, it’s brilliant!

Chicago is in Illinois, whose 2 letter code is IL 😁

Cool - hope you enjoy it 😁

This doesn’t answer your question at all, but if you’re interested in undersea cables, you may enjoy Jon Bois’ brilliant and bizarre history of the telegraph, and especially the 3rd and 4th parts (although it’s all very worth watching).

A degree of familiarity with 90s sitcom Home Improvement would also be helpful, though not essential.

Listen… Do you smell something?

Yeah, that was definitely a smart move.

Wow, turns out Einstein was pretty smart! 😁

One of them calls me Betty.

I don’t use Instagram, but I found this with some pics of some 3120s

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6KuR3tL4C/

And here’s another thing about them: https://www.aliexpress.com/p/wiki/article.html?keywords=3120-skate-shoes

And someone in 2005 who was looking for them but thinks the company disappeared

https://ben.blog/2005/02/07/3120-shoes/

Not sure about the magazine though, sorry.

I saw Stephen Fry suggest once that it be pronounced “Wuh Wuh Wuh” which I kind of like :-)

I think OP was saying the opposite. They use(d) the N to avoid Netflix originals. Which may also be an answer as to why they have (apparently) removed it.

Seems better to me though, the N was annoying, and there have been some very good Netflix originals, so it’d be a shame if people refused to even consider them on that basis alone.

Last week, same OP was absolutely peppering a few communities I’m subbed to. Definitely time to block.

As long as you are not in major target city … you will be fine.

That seems pretty complacent tbh.

First of all even just the top 30 cities in the US are home to about 41 million people. Which seems a lot of folk to simply write off.

Also, the destruction of the major cities would cause huge/complete economic, social, infrastructural and legal collapse for the rest of the country.

Plus, even for those outside the immediate blast radius, there’d be the massive environmental impact of pollution to land and water, not least the potential for a nuclear winter killing off crops, and then animals.

Turns out my house was outside the blast radius if the base was nuked.

Without knowing the size of the bomb, how could you know you would be outside it? Not that blast radius is all that matters anyway.

Come, friendly nukes…