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robk commented on Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]   exhibitdb.cmog.org/opacim... · Posted by u/speckx
robk · 2 months ago
After college I got a Pyrex 5L erlenmeyer flask as a wine decanter and it's served me well two and a half decades later. Always a fun topic when people see it for the first time.

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robk commented on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/alecmuffett
jjangkke · 2 months ago
Jokes aside, what on earth is going on with the UK?

It seems to have serious demographic issues and actual ethnic English are understandably angry at having been largely vilified as Nazis and far-right for wanting to protect their heritage and identity.

To reach into draconian surveillance and censorship to quell its own natives of the land who has lived there for thousands of years at the behest of those that have arrived from far away lands with a drastically incompatible culture with the British is a recipe for civil war.

robk · 2 months ago
Yep that sums it up. Scary.

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robk commented on Antibiotic resistance could cause more deaths than cancer in 25 years   nltimes.nl/2025/09/22/ant... · Posted by u/belter
robk · 3 months ago
Bacteriophages are the answer.
robk commented on Jaguar Land Rover extends shutdown after cyber attack   bbc.com/news/articles/c15... · Posted by u/andsoitis
OhMeadhbh · 3 months ago
Yup. You never think it's going to happen to you... until it does. Wish them all the best. Maybe they should hire a CISO.
robk · 3 months ago
Just rent one from the master services agreement with Accenture or Tata haha
robk commented on How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads   ourworldindata.org/britai... · Posted by u/sien
piker · 3 months ago
As an American who drove for 20 years before obtaining a license in the UK, I can offer some observations.

First, driving in the UK is much more a privilege than a right as in the US. You can live a complete life in the UK without a license because of the wide availability of public transit. In the US however, if you want to maintain a steady job outside of NYC, Chicago, DC, Boston or perhaps a few others, you'll have to drive. Revoking a driver's license in the US can be life-altering in a way that it just won't in the UK. Fewer people bother getting the license and fewer still drive.

Second, driving is much more physically and mentally demanding in the UK. Perhaps that serves to reduce traffic deaths by forcing focus, but it also imposes a limit on the types of people who can drive here. This selects against too young, too old, too small, disabled, etc. in a way that would not be tolerated in the US for the above reasons.

Third, annual vehicle inspections are much more stringent in the UK which takes a lot of older vehicles off the road and again selects against those of lower socio-economic status in a way that would be unconscionable in the US.

robk · 3 months ago
I don't know I'm the same and find being in the valley more stressful than the drive to wembley from central London. More taxing mentally to have insane people passing you at 100mph. The licensing is harder but still was a one shot 5 hour prep thing for me.
robk commented on Tesla owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills [video]   cnn.com/2025/08/01/politi... · Posted by u/MBCook
deim3n8ight · 5 months ago
It’s like the Gastronomie Branche in Vienna
robk · 5 months ago
Can you share what that means? To a non German speaker this is of no significance

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