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Re:Owners report rust forming on Tesla Cybertruck on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:08PM (#39405227)
In the marine industry, 316 is standard.
You mean the reputable journalists at BuzzFeed?
You don't understand!

Austen has zero intention of answering you!

If you could please stop bothering him with your plebeian concerns, that'd be great!

Depends on the place.

I happily biked for years in London (considered a dangerous cycling city).

I gave up in fear of my life in Fiji (tiny and sparsely populated).

I wouldn't even consider it in Dublin (which has a lot of cycle lanes).

Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well on Friday May 31, 2019 @02:19PM (#20063546)
Is anyone else seeing the irony of the poor writing in this article?
At least once a day
Centuries
Re:Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:36PM (#18781647)
Raising Awareness is the contemporary 'last refuge of a scoundrel'. Greenpeace lost any broad credibility as a maverick campaigning organisation a long time ago, it's now just another MOTR 'charitable' org that overspends on admin, salaries and PR.
Re:Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh on Friday December 28, 2018 @10:32PM (#18781632)
Probably both... I've worked with a lot of people from Bangladesh; idealistic stated goals, paired with deeply cynical actions is a good, succinct and fairly generalisable summary in my experience.