@_baldtires Rover, in the 60s had aluminium panels, all the 70s Range Rovers were similar.
The UK was short on steel, and had an abundance of aircraft engineers after the war.
I had a late 70's caddy that had a aluminium bonnet (hood).
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James Leighton
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the early history of aluminum cars is so fucking fascinating but there are like ZERO books about it or anything. not even magazine articles.
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@SamaHoole Well this is gold.
Earned a follow in case you do it again. 🧀
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The carnivore shepherd's pie goes in the oven without a potato anywhere near it.
The mash was never the dish. It turned up around 1791, when the potato became the food of the labouring poor, and its job was to make a little meat look like a proper dinner. Two hundred years later we are still eating the cheap bit and calling it tradition.
Every low carb replacement fails the same way:
- Cauliflower: water, doing an impression.
- Celeriac: potato with a posher accent.
- Swede: orange, and it knows what it did.
- Turnip: grey by minute ten.
- Pork rinds: crunchy, soggy, gone.
All of them auditioning for a part nobody needs cast. Replace the job instead: brown, hold a spoon, soak up gravy.
- 800g lamb mince, 20% fat.
- 250ml bone broth, the gelatinous kind.
- 100g chicken livers, optional.
- 6 eggs, 100ml cream, 75g melted butter.
- 150g mature cheddar.
Brown the mince in two batches until it has real colour, because grey mince tastes exactly as sad as it looks. Broth in, simmer to a thick gravy. Whisk the eggs with cream and butter, pour it over, 180C for thirty minutes. It puffs into a golden crust and slices cold the next day.
Someone will tell you it is not a shepherd's pie without the mash.
Ask them which part the shepherd was eating.
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@MichaelAArouet @Maverick_Equity Some might argue collecting taxes is immoral.
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@Maverick_Equity Isn’t not paying taxes simply immoral and criminal?
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Each time I go to Germany, I wonder why this country is so stuck in the last century: painfully slow internet and mobile, embarrassing railways, fax machines still in use, and no card payments in some restaurants.
I never use cash in other countries. What’s wrong with Germany?
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@willibossman @elonmusk Now filter for the real economy not government and state funded jobs.
The exact reason we are anti state is because the pay is disproportionate to benefit provided
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@elonmusk Nonsense. I know you guys don't believe in education which shows a clear preference for blue with higher education, so lets just use income level, as a measurement for 'exceptional'.
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This is essentially true.
However, it is possible to filter for exceptional people from any country. The problem for the left is that exceptional people mostly won’t vote for them.
Alice Smith@TheAliceSmith
If you’re wondering whether mass immigration a good or bad thing, then look at the countries they’re coming from and ask if you want your country to become like that. It really is that simple.
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The problem is that the not all people technically smart enough actually do see through it.
My personal experience is the midwits are the most dangerous.
They think they are smart, because they have acquired skills, arrogantly think they are correct and are in positions of influence and power.
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@elonmusk Because anyone with an IQ over 130 can see their game for what it is. It is just logic. Simply to ask logical/ethical questions to all their actions… “What if everyone did this? Would this action improve society or destroy it?” It isn’t complicated. It is simple, but not easy.
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Filtering for exceptional people may actually be immoral, if you take the best the donor countries are doomed to underperform.
There is an argument for allowing this where the donor states are so corrupt individual exceptionalism makes no difference.
But this goes massively off topic.
Every state should be maximising the potential of its own people first.
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@StephanEwald @geertwilderspvv @Israel Fringe?
Interesting who is aligned with the far left also, don't you think?
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@geertwilderspvv Quite interesting how @Israel aligns itself with the most fringe right-wing politicians in Europe.
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Jerusalem today!
I am proud to be a friend of #Israel. Always have been and always will be. So I come here not only in peacetime but also in times of terror and war.
Full (political) program the next few days, after Shabbat.
#AmYisraelChai
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@bayraktar_1love This is not abnormal, happens in the UK, well not the drone bit as far as I know.
jsofiresafetyconsultants.co.uk/2024/10/21/oca…
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What stands out about the strikes on the Wildberries warehouses is how fast the fire spread after impact.
Judging by the timeline of published footage from Shushary, less than an hour after the hit, the flames had already spread across most of the hub.
Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦@bayraktar_1love
Moment of the drone strike on the Wildberries warehouse in Shushary, St. Petersburg.
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@totemancer @IvoTONIUT Why are they in this situation?
You should be banned from any activity requiring actual reasoning skills.
Like voting or participating in society.
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Yet another "success" for the most incompetent ruling class in European history:
German company Varta—one of Germany’s oldest and most renowned firms specializing in the development and manufacture of batteries—is going bankrupt, 139 years after its founding.
🇪🇺#EUstupidity
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The very worst Prime Minister of the very worst Government.
Good riddance.
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@wylfcen I get this in real life too!
I think a substantial percent of the population have comprehension issues.
Further I think many people hallucinate interpretations, and I think this is more prevalent with education level!
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If you’re an Amiga legend… you instantly remember this screen.
Who else got the Guru at the worst possible moment?
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@Itsfoss When you come for the freedom then get hit with authoritarianism.
People rightly feel bait and switched.
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@cremieuxrecueil Thes stats are amazing, and after visiting last year I feel don't even tell the whole story.
I travelled the country extensively, not just the tourist areas. The place feels not just safe, but kind and civilised in a way much of the UK does not anymore.
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Stop right there! You've reached the El Salvador homicide rate check-up post.
Compared to last year, El Salvador's homicide rate is...
DOWN BY A THIRD! From an already record-low level!
El Salvador is on track for LESS THAN HALF of the Canadian homicide rate!
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@sterespect @cremieuxrecueil I have thought about it, and researched it.
A murderer can kill 10's of people, affecting 100's of friends and families.
Before you come onto the thousands they will steal from, intimidate, injure and maim.
It is not even close.
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@cremieuxrecueil Overall there will be more victims of injustice if you think about it actually
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@Favwontmiss That's why I love my job, never thought about it that way
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@SimonKerwood @RJHCKS @RMistereggen He has reverted to pretending not to undestand the argument.
Or genuinely does not understand.
Either make this pointless, you might as well philosophise with a hungry alligator, move along.
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@RJHCKS @RMistereggen I read it. You are still confusing a factor cited in a parole decision with the crime he was imprisoned for. He was jailed for leading a neo-Nazi criminal organisation, not for posting on X. Condescension cannot repair a false equivalence.
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How many of you have heard of Ilias Kasidiaris?
The former Greek MP and politician remains imprisoned in Greece, due to one of the most controversial cases in the EU.
He’s serving time from the Golden Dawn convictions, but a recent judicial decision has drawn heavy criticism: His June 2025 release request was denied 2-1, against the Prosecutor’s recommendation, partly because he maintains an active X account (@IliasKasidiaris), with help from supporters to comment on politics.
“The applicant… maintains a personal account on… X… expressing his views on current political and social affairs,” the court said.
They will therefore keep him imprisoned despite good conduct and significant time served.
This sets a dangerous precedent for political speech. How does it differ from cases Elon Musk has criticized in the UK?
Ηλίας Κασιδιάρης@IliasKasidiaris
Ο @elonmusk κατήγγειλε τις παράνομες φυλακίσεις πολιτών στην Μεγάλη Βρετανία για δημόσια σχόλια στο X. Στην Ελλάδα η κατάσταση είναι απείρως χειρότερη. Είμαι ο μοναδικός πολίτης της Ε.Ε. που παραμένω στη φυλακή με μοναδική αιτιολογία την έκφραση γνώμης στο X. Το έγγραφο που δημοσιεύω σήμερα είναι πρωτοφανές στα ευρωπαϊκά χρονικά και αποδεικνύει την πιο βάναυση καταπάτηση των αρχών του Δικαίου και της Δημοκρατίας. Σύμφωνα με το υπ’ αρ. 37/2025 βούλευμα του Συμβουλίου Πλημμελειοδικών Λαμίας, πρέπει να παραμείνω φυλακισμένος με την εξής άθλια και παράνομη αιτιολογία: «Ο αιτών κατάδικος, όπως επιβεβαίωσε ο ίδιος κατά την εξ αποστάσεως εμφάνισή του ενώπιον του Συμβουλίου, διατηρεί προσωπικό λογαριασμό στο μέσο κοινωνικής δικτύωσης "Χ" (πρώην "Twitter"), μέσω του οποίου προβαίνει, προφανώς με τη βοήθεια τρίτων προσώπων, σε αναρτήσεις - τοποθετήσεις, με τις οποίες εκφράζει τις απόψεις του για τα ζητήματα της τρέχουσας πολιτικής και κοινωνικής επικαιρότητας» Με αυτό το ανήκουστο σκεπτικό απορρίφθηκε η αίτηση αποφυλάκισης που κατέθεσα τον Ιούνιο του 2025 και έτσι παραμένω στη φυλακή επί έναν και πλέον χρόνο. Η ως άνω κατάπτυστη απόφαση ελήφθη με οριακή πλειοψηφία και παρά την αντίθετη γνώμη της Εισαγγελέως και της Προέδρου του Συμβουλίου, η οποία αμέσως μόλις ψήφισε υπέρ της αποφυλάκισής μου αντικαταστάθηκε από γνωστό συνδικαλιστή δικαστή. Ανάλογη περίπτωση δίωξης της ελεύθερης έκφρασης και γνώμης δεν υπάρχει σε καμία άλλη χώρα του κόσμου. Ούτε στην Τουρκία του Ερντογάν, ούτε στις χώρες της Υποσαχάριας Αφρικής, ούτε στις μπανανίες της Λατινικής Αμερικής. Έχω ήδη αποστείλει τη σχετική καταγγελία, πέρα από τον @elonmusk, και σε όλα τα αρμόδια διεθνή δικαιοδοτικά όργανα που υπερασπίζονται την ανεξαρτησία της δικαιοσύνης και το κράτος δικαίου, που έχει βάναυσα καταπατηθεί από το εγχώριο καθεστώς των σκανδάλων και της διαφθοράς.
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@SimonKerwood @RMistereggen Comprehension issues.
You dont even have to read now, AI will summarise for you, zero excuses
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@RMistereggen Wow. Spectacularly dishonest framing. Kasidiaris was not imprisoned for posting on X; he was convicted for his leadership role in Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi criminal organisation. Political activity being considered during parole is not the same as being jailed for an opinion.
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@IfindRetards This was the play book all along.
“War is Peace” “Freedom is Slavery” “Ignoranceis Strength”
Ministry of Truth creates lies, Ministry of Love administers torture, Ministry of Plenty causes starvation.
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Turns out the so called 'anti-fascists' cheering networks censoring Trump's speech are the real fascists.
I thought they were supposed to oppose this sort of thing.
Retards.
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