i'm happy to say that I never noticed :)

The Ghosts of Christmas came to visit ?!

He doesn't need to win. Just settle for a bargain of 50M and have King Charles work as his butler.

You'll have to upgrade the mic if you go podcasting 😛

Let me guess, these rebates need to be declared as income and taxed back again?

I suppose this qualifies as 'philanthropy' nowadays :/

"to direct sunlight down onto targets on Earth"

I agree. The DVDs often had at least 30 minutes of really good extra material: (interviews, the-making-of documentary, out takes etc). I miss those.

Groundhog day.

@cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social a slight aside on your visit to Ireland: I've been searching night time ISS astronaut photography on NASA's database (light pollution research). I see there was a bunch of photos of Galway on 2013-04-12. The metadata does not include photographer. Curious, was that you?

Thankfully most people and our political representatives disagree with that very pro Russian pov.

"Hysterical and dramatic" is what many naive people said about warnings of a impending Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Yet here we are.

At least it's a metric / SI unit! How very woke.

any time i leave a safe gap, someone from behind feels the need to overtake and fill the gap :/

So he wants *more* exports to the US now?

Don't be too sure. They do have a navy!

Age would have a large influence on that perception. Also it depends heavily on what kind of shade: shade in leafy woodland vs concrete urban environment would have different characteristics.