https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/survey-results/daily/2019/07/12/ce84b/1

Other fun stuff from the same poll:

• Scots are the least likely to think they could do it, and also the least likely to say “don’t know”. We know where we stand apparently
• 2% of 65+ year old people think they could do it, although 2% is getting well into the territory where it could just be insincere answers

Moby > Morby

With all due respect mate, I am British, I do understand the toll of the Blitz. I’m just conscious of the fact that Ukraine has basically been suffering the same conditions for far longer, as pointed out by the other reply. That isn’t an attempt to downplay what Britain suffered, but rather to properly recognise the severity of what Ukraine is suffering. I’m sure I don’t need to send photos of the damage done by Russia.

Damn, nice work on that. Flyout takes a bit of figuring out, but it’s really cool once do. How did you go about making the texture for it? I assume it’s a bunch of decals. They look great.

I haven’t played all that much and definitely haven’t made anything that looks as polished as this, but I was quite happy with the hypothetical successor to the De Havilland Sea Vixen that I made

For what it’s worth, Britain probably didn’t suffer as much as Ukraine has. The actual island of Great Britain was more or less secured after the aerial battle of Britain was won, and that took less than a year. Military casualties would go on to be comparable to the war in Ukraine, of course, and there was the ongoing difficulty of feeding everyone, but Britain at least had the sea and a massive navy standing between it and the enemy and civilian casualties were “only” about 70,000

To satisfy my own curiosity:

Non-state territories like Puerto Rico and Guam are not included in either country’s numbers due to not being depicted in the image, save for Washington DC because that one is in the image

You could honestly just ask the ghost via the oiuja board and it would be roughly as meaningful as a polygraph

Less than 4,000. The 15% includes a 9% bloc of undecideds. The remaining 6% is getting preeeeetty damn close to Lizardman’s Constant territory

To be honest I don’t think our automotive industry ever really psychologically recovered from British Leyland

Here’s French wikipedia calling the mythological figure “Ariane” with no D https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(mythologie)

“Aryan” in French is “aryenne”, it has a different vowel

France had plenty of pre-WWII rocket scientists, like:

• Yves Le Prieur, who developed anti-balloon rockets in WWI
• Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who pioneered the use of joystick controls and founded an award for advances in space travel
• Louis Damblanc, who built the first ever multi-stage rocket

What France did not have was a counterpart to Operation Paperclip like Britain and the Soviet Union did

And lastly, the guy that picked the name was a devoted supporter of Charles de Gaulle

This criticism does not hold up any scrutiny whatsoever

Largest army in Europe that’s not already fighting in Ukraine. This would be a lot of weight behind a peacekeeping force

If you accept a lack of gears, a belt drive instead of a chain probably simplifies the most difficult part of actually making it. Best pick somewhere with good roads though, since you’re definitely not making pneumatic tyres or a pump to fill them with

I haven’t checked all of them, but I looked up the first three receivers listed by Eutelsat Oneweb for “land mobility” usage. One was made in the US and UK, one was South Korean, and the one intended for military usage is Spanish. I guess South Korea is not NATO, but that’s about the NATO-est non-NATO country there is

Hell yeah, it looks like a right laugh

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

If it’s any reassurance, leader of the UK Trump fan club Nigel Farage is getting shit from even the Conservatives for defending Trump’s tantrum during Zelenskyy’s visit

It’s also Pale Blue Dot day! For those that haven’t seen it before, it’s a photo of Earth taken on the 14th of February 1990 from well beyond the orbit of Neptune. Earth is that single blue pixel.

I had a Shadow of the Colossus t shirt that I really liked. It was just a black shirt with the silhouette of the first colossus, the landscape, and Wander made by bleaching against a stencil. It didn’t sau the name of the game or anything, but if you have played it you’d immediately recognise the scene, and if you haven’t it just looked like a fairly ordinary shirt with a big monkey-like silhouette on it