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This seems fairly straightforward?

White button mushrooms = soft, white, round. Bloody = generic swear word, emphasis. Feed me = shove my face in.

And there we have the difference between advocating and enforcing. Plenty of people now have the time to focus on safety issues; doesn't mean they get any more effect than the people advocating for veganism or environmentalism.

In a functioning system (and bear in mind that sometimes the US doesn't have that, and I'm certainly not taking the US situation as a goal), a regulator is often going to step in and make you stop.

People only caring once it affects them personally means that the people who haven't been affected yet are going to keep vibe-coding dams and drag-racing on public roads.

Coercion can be a relative thing - anything from slavery to a gentleman's agreement that if you help me build a house, I'll help you build a house, because neither of us wants to lift rafters on our own.

The work required to e.g. build a (reasonably large) bridge is substantial; the work required to maintain that bridge in a safe condition is also substantial and it's quite well known in free software circles that maintenance is a lot less sexy than building another shiny new bridge - government can struggle with this too, but that's where rigid safety and oversight systems come into it. Start looking at dams and it gets way more scary.

Many many safety failures affect far more than the person who made the decision. That said, you often find the opposite - many people value others' safety more than their own.

This can be a critical mass thing, though. Some projects are pointless unless you get enough people involved, but then have worthwhile results.

I would also put 'safety' in the "valuable, but no one wants to use it" category (note - not create safety systems, but convincing the truck driver or forge worker or backyard chemist to implement and use them).

Some idle comments:

• In hot climates, an indoors HWHP is preferred, as it offsets AC loads. In cold climates, put it outdoors.

• Avoid putting AC units directly in the kitchen due to fouling the filters.

• Multiple single splits can be cheaper than a multi split, and are generally slightly more efficient.

• Shade can help reduce AC loads significantly.

Same thing with the cluster that is VoLTE support between carriers.

Isn't "I can move my phone between countries and carriers without worrying" something that was mostly sorted out in the 3G days?

I am slightly confused by the graph, which does not appear to list English or any of the Chinese languages?

It's reasonable to argue that 'lingua franca' means the language used for trade, travel, diplomacy etc. - and that does not necessarily have to mean the language spoken by the plurality of the world's population.

Surprised the sheep aren't mentioned more; presumably someone (different landowner?) owns them and is upset at losing 59.

Doesn't sound like they own it. Sounds like the river burst/overtopped its banks somewhere and they complained that it was flowing out of the river/wetlands onto their land.

Not clear the farmer expected this rather than either fixing the breach and/or reduced but not zero flow.

Sorry, you got a Pacer instead.

Looking closer and getting better at Aus geography, it's part of the Kimberley in the north-east of WA, so still a few hundred km west of Darwin.

Size 163000 square miles, about 3.5x what this guy was asking for and about 20x modern day Israel.

Population (now) 32,000.

The one between Western Australia and the Northern Territory is pretty empty.

I would hazard a guess at some of the Russia/China areas.

Bear in mind that we're talking empty during the 1940s, not today.