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That kind of car is amongst the fastest road cars it is possible to buy. There are a few rare things that go even faster, but they costs millions of euros and are often only barely road-legal

Technically legal on the Isle of Man too, but see the TT and how several people die on it every year for how bad an idea that is

Monaco has had an open border with France since 1865, so I don’t think that specific thing is a concern

“Each state is lined with an impenetrable wall of swine. We are trapped.”

The first two principles for virtual currencies that they have listed are “Price indication should be clear and transparent” and “Practices obscuring the cost of in-game digital content and services should be avoided”, so if EVE is honest and up front about it then it should be fine

Trick question, Sonic is Barry Allen’s fursona. They run at the same speed because they’re the same person

I will absolutely not share specifics of this since it would be doxxing him, but I found one of his other social media accounts and it had a post from a week ago that seemed ordinary enough. Whatever got him to stop posting here, it wasn’t something so drastic as to prevent him from engaging with his interests

(Also Squid, if you see this, I am happy to explain how I found you over DMs if it concerns you)

I love it. It’s right next door to a museum aboard an actual ship from 1901, the Discovery. Old and new contrasted against each other

While they probably shouldn’t actually put it on the article themselves, they can submit it to Wikimedia Commons or even just post it somewhere public under a creative commons licence

This must never be changed

Categories of traditional Scottish dances (and maybe other traditions, but I only know the Scottish ones)

Ooh, that’s interesting. I’m not really sure what to look for here, could you give me an example of a language/script that has that?

It’s pretty normal for language to vary between generations, it’s just that we all communicate via text a lot more now, so differences in punctuation usage have become noticeable parts within those language variations

it’s not a grammar competition.

While I agree that there’s less of an expectation of grammar, informal text communication has definitely developed grammar of its own. OP mentioned full stops, for example — ending a message with one is a tone marker now

No, not right now. There was a comment from the German foreign minister saying that Europe should apply the same amount of funding as it did against covid, and that was about €670 billion ($700 billion). However the discussion is ongoing and Britain and France have both just said they’re willing to put troops on the ground to protect a ceasefire, so hope is not lost

which is barely a drip feed compared to Bidens firehouse

Europe has given Ukraine more than America. Source

Biden’s last package closed the gap a fair bit, but Europe is still the bigger source of support and definitely the more consistent one

Ahh, I see what you mean now. Thank you for explaining!

This is a paradoxical sentence in this context. Raw material was used because it was practical and functional, but at the same time it was fashionable too.

Perhaps I phrased it badly. All I meant to say is that “not using concrete” does not equal “not brutalist”. I agree with the rest of what.you said, I think that I’ve just failed to communicate what I intended to beforehand

It’s think that Corbusier would take offense with his name associated with this.

I don’t know enough about Le Corbusier to agree or disagree with you - I did study some of his design, but it was a long time ago - but he would hardly be alone as an artist that wasn’t so keen on what his work influenced. I don’t think that would make it any less true

It actually has protected status in part because it is an example of brutalism. To quote its listing:

“Architectural innovation: the building displays an unusual blend of New Brutalist architecture (influenced by late Le Corbusier) that is mellowed by an inspired application of upturned curves to the main elevations, sweeping car park ramps and the curved ends of the former taxi rank.”

Concrete wasn’t necessarily a defining feature of brutalist architecture, it was just the thing that was really cheap and available in abundance when Europe was attempting to rebuild itself in the wake of WWII. Since brutalism does avoid the decoration or adornment of materials, in practice this resulted in a lot of visible concrete, but it’s not like designers were going “let’s use concrete only because it’s the fashion”

I’m fairly sure you’re just making a joke about the name here, but brutalist architecture was actually a pretty genuine attempt to improve the circumstances of the public. The thinking was basically to put function over form and then embrace the raw appearance of materials and make it a feature. It didn’t always succeed at this, but th ethinking was pretty good