Are you a fellow Lateral Podcast listener?

Indeed, though I have the feeling that I’ve known about this story longer then that. Maybe it was on QI?

Almon Brown Strowger was an undertaker and suspected that a rival buisness used their wife’s position as a switchboard operator to steal customers.

So he invented the automatic switchboard and put his competitors wife out of a job.

IDK why you’re getting downvoted

I mean, your own source debunks what the previous poster implied …

I did check it … doesn’t seem to check out, not even close.

Here is a pretty neat interactive graphic: https://www.wri.org/insights/4-charts-explain-greenhouse-gas-emissions-countries-and-sectors

If you click on the energy -> transportation sector, you’ll see it’s about 80% from road traffic.

Over all ships only make up a tiny amount (0.3% of global emissions).

Of course now that the US has gone home

What do you mean? A 2nd carrier group just got there …

The concern is that you’re handling contaminated meat and then infect your self by rubbing your eyes.

Would you argue for bottling things up indefinitely in some situations?

I guess. That sometimes happens by accident when you bottle something up … and then just forget about it.

Haha, I get one of those every other day.

Lol. Nice bubble you must live in.

Guess all of Europe is a bubble now?

Ah, one the people showed up. How surprising.

I don’t think anyone would be upset if the extension would just redirect to simple wiki.

It’s a bit like having bit of poop on your dinner plate. It still ruins the entire thing.

Meh the EU has no business being in the Red Sea

Yeah we do. Most of our stuff goes through there.

They never married.

So I just have to upgrade my lightbulbs 8 time and I’m effectively vegan!

Bottling things up is totally fine if it works for you. The people telling you not to do that are just projecting because they can’t do it.

“Poultry”.

Just eat them cold.

Hell no, as few people as possible should have guns. Regular police don’t even need them.

None, I just do it in my head. Not that there is much to do in the first place.

It’s just logging into online banking and clicking “pay” on all the bills that aren’t automated.

I’d say yes, especially on longer flights. You get considerable more space.

Just this year I took a A320 from a national carrier and a few days later a A320 from easyJet. They literally crammed 7 more rows into the same type of aircraft.