OscarCunningham

joined 2 years ago
[–] OscarCunningham@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I grew up in Portsmouth, England. Some my friends would come to school from the Isle of Wight on the hovercraft service. We all thought the hovercraft was pretty cool, but I only recently found out that it's the only commercially operated hovercraft in the whole world.

[–] OscarCunningham@lemmy.world 115 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Stable and prosperous? She started with a civil war and ended by being conquered by Rome. The bit in the middle wasn't stable either.

[–] OscarCunningham@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (7 children)

If it were an option, then it might be better to selfishly keep good relations with the US. But Trump will always try to extract as much as possible, regardless of 'good relations'. So the choice is really between helping Ukraine or not, knowing the US will be the same either way.

[–] OscarCunningham@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

There is a four dimensional set of which the Mandelbrot set and Julia sets are both slices.

[–] OscarCunningham@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The UK quite often sees words switch around in how posh they are. This is because most people want to sound posher than they really are, while the actual posh people have nothing to prove and want to seem down-to-earth. See U and non-U English.