I'm British, and AC/DC are Australian so... I guess you're right?
Edit (although I do kind of like AC/DC, so IDK)
Apepollo11
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This.
Alternatively, it might be that it's just an additional identical role, but company policy means they need to go through a new round of interviews.
NHS = National Health Service
It's what we have in the UK, and essentially means that all your health care is free.
Vasectomy = free. Having a baby in hospital = free. CAT scan = free. Insulin = free.
Admittedly, it's paid for in taxes, but at a small fraction of the cost of the American way of doing things.
If you're interested in smaller scale sculpting, it'd be remiss of me not to direct you to The Crafsman Steady Craftin'
Had mine done through the NHS. Basically two questions, "do you have children already" and "how long since your last child was born?".
If you haven't had kids yet, you just need to explain why you want a vasectomy, usually with a specialist. If your last child was born less than two months ago, they want you to wait (apparently a lot of men's first reaction to the realities of having a baby is to try to ensure it won't happen again).
a fun treat like being financially solvent is to generations after Boomers.
FTFY
Lemmy was released as an open-source fediverse alternative to Reddit.
Just over a year after launch, r/ChapoTrapHouse, moved across after being banned from Reddit. This is likely what you're referring to. It had well over 100,000 active users on Reddit, so represented a sudden sizable influx of users.
I'd wager the biggest influx of people by far, though, occurred when Spez upset a majority of mods and many users by banning third party apps.
People looked for an alternative, and Lemmy was it.
But why are so many people who lean left politically? Because the Venn Diagram for "people who like the idea of a decentralised platform that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires", and "people who would like society that supports everybody and is free from the machinations of millionaires" is nearly a circle.
You might be underestimating the timescales involved.
For example, grass - super simple organism, right? Should have appeared early on? No, dinosaurs appeared before grass did. But when the first grasses did evolve, wow, they were successful on a scale that is hard to overstate.
The beauty of sexual reproduction, from an evolutionary point of view, is that by its very nature, it allows many experiments to take place at once. The success criteria of each experiment is how many babies can the subject make.
Little wings evolve on seed pods for the same reason they evolved on anything else. For whatever reason, each step along the way made them a tiny bit more successful at having babies than those without.
Maybe a little spike makes them slightly less likely to be eaten, a bigger spike less likely still. A flatter spike helped them catch the wind and scatter further afield, and broader ones further still.
There's no feedback needed for individuals in this system - it's literally a numbers game based on who/what can make the most babies. They're the ones who, millions of years down the line, end up winning.
It's not the boiling that's the important factor - it's the temperature.
You could make a cup of tea with it, but it wouldn't be much different than just plopping a teabag in room-temperature water for the same amount of time.
I think you might have misread my comment. I don't think George Lucas was trying to make a comment on any of the above.
I'm not sure - just think...
Within less than thirty years there has been:
A sudden massive increase in the number of people who believe the MMR vaccine causes autism.
A global pandemic that large numbers of people: Swear didn't happen, or Was artificially created, or Was a hoax to encourage people to have vaccines that contain something sinister.
Widespread demonisation of an entire religion.
A sharp increase in people who don't believe the holocaust happened.
A baffling increase in people who believe the Earth is flat.
In short, people are stupid and surprisingly willing to believe nonsense, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Were the Jedi actually magical? Nah it was just propaganda by a corrupt council. It was all special effects - seriously, a sword against blasters? Wake up, sheeple.
Kinda.
The Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam are a thing. Admittedly, they probably lived about 100,000 years apart, but all mankind is descended from these two people.