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  • Woman loses £650,000 injury claim after being seen tossing Christmas tree

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  • I wouldn't be so quick to discount her injuries. Ask anyone with a nagging back injury, some days you feel like an absolute champ and can throw a damn tree, but other days you're bed ridden from pinched up nerves. Thats just the nature of the injury.

    I had a friend who got into a car accident, driver drove off a bridge. She's got a permanently fked up back. But you'd never know it from looking at her. Some days she's out and about playing football and cycling, other days she'll take 2 hours to get out of bed because the slightest movement will leave her in tears from her fked up vertebrae.

  • I only like pointers, not humans

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  • I like Aumsum

  • Taliban execute two men by gunfire in packed Afghanistan stadium

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  • No. What happens is the spectators get severely desensitized to violence. Especially if the spectators are young malleable teenagers. And suddenly sawing someone's head off in front of a live broadcast becomes just another day on the job.

  • coding chess

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  • Chess technically has a finite number of moves. Although its a huge number and some have theorized its larger than the number of atoms in the known universe.

  • Russia's Caesar Kunikov large landing ship sinks in Black Sea - media

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  • The US does not like attack helis or something. The Comanche was a cool looking heli that was cancelled back in the day.

    To this day we're still operating Apaches, a design first built in 1975.

  • Russia's Caesar Kunikov large landing ship sinks in Black Sea - media

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  • Drones are becoming a huge game changer.

    Even simple unarmed $300 drones with an IR camera are proving to be extremely effective. The level of live battlefield information and situational awareness they are bringing to commanders on the ground is at least equivalent to what a platoon of recon troops can offer.

    Next up are the drones capable of carrying light loads like air dropped grenades or explosives than can take our expensive vehicles like aircraft. The return on investment for these systems are insane.

  • Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’

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  • A lifetime ago I used to work in the construction field. I have every respect for the people who planned and built the pyramids. The level of coordination, resource management, engineering expertise would have rivalled the biggest projects of the modern day.

    Sometimes its nice to be reminded we haven't advanced all that far. For all the machinery and gadgetry we have today, some of the works still require the same techniques and methods used by our ancient ancestors. Like shifting heavy equipment onto its final position. Like rolling it on top of steel pipes and then using a bunch of pulleys and levers to just jimmy it to its exact angle required. For all the laser levellers we have, sometimes nothing beats a bit of clear tubing, water, string and a good eye to level a final coat of flooring.

  • Stone age wall found at bottom of Baltic Sea ‘may be Europe’s oldest megastructure’

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  • This is a great find.

    We like to think we are leaps ahead of our ancestors in terms of ingenuity and problem solving but real difference has only been our few millennia of technological advancement. They were every bit as ingenious and as excellent problem solvers as we are today. Their craftsmanship and cunning never ceases to amaze me.

  • Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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  • Revanced

  • Data of half the population of France stolen in its largest ever cyberattack. This is what we know

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  • MICHAEL!

  • Tobacco use declining despite industry interference: WHO

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  • You want to convert something to useful land? Get rid of golf courses.

  • Chinese firm launches world’s most powerful solid-fuel rocket in coup for private aerospace sector

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  • The Aerospace industry is more than just about fuel types or size of rockets.

    Efficiency and cost are the biggest hurdles. Its not clear how these solid propellents improve efficiency or reduce launch costs. Next up are controls and reliability.

    China has a "great" record for controls and reliability. They can't even control where used rocket stages land. They're consistently dropping used parts in populated areas, which also says a lot about their safety protocols.

  • I know what I got

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  • This bad boy does doesn't just drive nails into wood. It drives nails straight through steel plates.

  • China’s Tesla-beating EV maker BYD has carmakers around the world ‘in a state of shock’ over its prices

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  • Sounds like what the Oceangate CEO said about industry safety requirements for submersibles.

  • Starbucks accused of rigging payments in app for nearly $900 million gain over 5 years by consumer watchdog group

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  • You can even get a decent freshly ground and brewed expresso out of a vending machine. Why you would go to Starbucks in Italy.

  • 4202 g

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  • In about 65 million years this guy will be the size of a T-Rex

  • Canada launches warning labels on each cigarette

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  • Education and awareness isn't the only reason we see less smokers.

    Less harmful alternatives with the ability to allow users to taper off have now become common place.

  • You didn't bought it you rented it!

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  • Or get the brother printer while they're still good.