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A40 t1_isptvh6 wrote
Tell me about it! Every day I have to sweep it away!
A40 t1_isptiii wrote
Reply to NASA outlines case for making sole-source SLS award to Boeing-Northrop joint venture by jeffsmith202
But think of all the starvin' lil' porkbarrels a single contract will exclude!
(Or is Boeing-Northrop going to shop it all around in the exact same, wasteful way NASA did?)
A40 t1_ismh9p4 wrote
Reply to comment by lsanborn in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
Tons of straw, peat and sawdust with every shipload (all going to waste) are kinda a guarantee of pest importation :-)
A40 t1_ism6m49 wrote
Reply to TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm
I wonder how many crop and forest pests hitchhiked along?
A40 t1_isazv0q wrote
Reply to comment by MarketingFilms in Sidney Powell’s nonprofit raised $16 million as she spread election falsehoods by John-Farson
It's the 'murican way: Money makes right, and the right donate money.
A40 t1_isqbaok wrote
Reply to TIL about some US Marine named Charles Brown who received the Medal of Honor in 1872, but deserted in Shanghai before he could receive it. by dragoniteftw33
He's such a clown