As opposed to the story about the person who leaves their unwanted furniture outside with a sign reading "Free- Please Take". It sits there undisturbed for a week.
Then they replace the sign with one that reads "$10- put cash in letterbox"
Within an hour, the furniture is gone, though of course there's no cash!
AIUI a Catholic monk who is also an ordained priest is addressed as Father not Brother (certainly this is true of the Dominicans I've met).
I think this is also true for Orthodox monks.
I'm not sure if there's a Christian denomination that has pastors who aren't priests, and also has monks. So this sounds to me more like a situation where all fellow members of the church are addressed as Brother/Sister.
Why would a flock of birds large enough to be ingested by both engines of a two-engined plane not also be large enough to be ingested by all four engines of a four-engined plane?
Like the b 52 bomber. I always liked them. We could convert them for passenger flights. Airlines could develop luggage pods that hang from the wings and the planes support mid air refuelling so that could help with turnarounds. They also have tail guns for even more safety. Also huge bay doors which will make getting on and off the plane much faster.
They also do if you go around the car with a knife and you stab them.
But it is somehow implied that the context of the comment is normal driving conditions.
Perhaps that comment could be reworded like:
>When driving on a highway, while not being pursued by the police, on planet Earth, with a road temperature below 200C, and not driving behind a van transporting nails with an open door that's dropping them on the road, why don’t all four tires on a car blow out at the same time?
That way people could get a better sense of what it is about.
Reminds me of the Catholic friend who once told me that he had done IT support for every Catholic religious order with a presence in the city where he lived, except two.
The Carthusians didn't use computers, and the Jesuits didn't need his help.
>Not only does the system know exactly where you are at every moment, it knows who your friends are, what they are interested in, and who you are spending time with
This actually makes sense of an anecdote a colleague uses to say that he thinks his phone is listening to him.
I am a keen skier. He used to ski a lot, but hasn't been for several years. Around the start of ski season this year, we talked about my plans to go skiing that weekend, and later that day he started seeing skiing-related ads.
He thinks it's because his phone listened into the conversation, but it could just as easily have been that it was spending more time near my phone (I had only recently started at that job) on which I regularly search for skiing-related things like conditions reports and directions to ski areas.
> but it could just as easily have been that it was spending more time near my phone (I had only recently started at that job) on which I regularly search for skiing-related things like conditions reports and directions to ski areas
Bingo! This is most certainly what happened.
I’ve spent time trying to convince my friends that their phone’s microphone is not constantly listening and running sounds through voice recognition software to isolate their voice (so the individual who owns the phone can be advertised to), then through sentiment analysis software (to inform advertisement bids), all without meaningfully affecting battery life. That is usually an uphill battle but explaining location services and the fact they don’t know what I’ve searched gets the point across better. (It is actually creepier.)
You were probably in the same place using the same IP address, and both browsed - doesn’t matter which sites you both visited, the trackers have you. You might have shown him where you were going. Ad trackers thought “I’ll serve ski ads to people that were on that IP address because somebody else looked at xyz”.
> London Zoo penguins were fed “slivers of cat meat dipped in cod-liver oil.”
I'm fairly sure this is a mistake and is supposed to be "cat's meat"- in other words, cheap poor-quality meat sold as cat food, rather than the flesh of cats!
AFAIK the only London Zoo animals that were killed at the start of the war were the venomous/dangerous ones, because of the risk that they would escape if their cages were damaged by bombing.
(I thought it was just the venomous ones, so was a bit surprised about the tiger)
The zoo raised rabbits and guinea pigs to feed to the carnivorous animals.
Perhaps the best example of that is that, as one of the linked maps [0] says, both British people who rhyme "scone" with "gone" and those who rhyme it with "alone" think that the other pronunciation is the "posh" one.
Whenever I'm in there, it seems busy. Part of the USP is that it's open 24/7 (something increasingly rare)...