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The difference in dash length really doesn't matter and your example is not the same at all, but it probably made you feel really smart.
Yeah exactly, used to. It's niche now, and has been for decades.
Dunno which country they are in but this has happened in a lot of places. This is a an infamous example in the UK:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts

Which this politician who owned a major road engineering company was quite involved in

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples

Re:The shrouded sinister history of the bulldozer on Monday March 10, 2025 @08:29PM (#43327857)
The P-80 might not have seen any action but the Gloster Meteor was introduced into service in July 1944 and saw a fair bit of combat through to the end of the war in Europe. Not a massive impact and wasn't really that important in the grand scheme of things, but it's still an allied jet powered plane that made some contribution to the war effort.
Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:12AM (#43318371)
After the original Rolls-Royce Ltd. went bust the British government bought up all it's assets and set up a new company in 1971. The automobile division was spun off as a separate company and sold off a few years later.

The engine company is Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc and ain't a subsidiary of anyone. It's the second largest manufacturer of aircraft engines after CFM.

BMW owns the modern car company and licenses the name and logo from the engine company.

Re:Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature on Thursday December 19, 2024 @05:44AM (#42460247)
There's plenty of evidence that it was built for the Pharoah Khufu about 4,500 years ago.

To suggest otherwise is just insane aliens conspiracy theory nonsense. Is this post a satire of that BS? I really find it hard to tell.