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Supreme court cases. There are some real doozies, not that anyone irl cares.
Medieval European building techniques, specifically heavy timber framing and lime plaster
Sexual kinks
Grammar
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The appearance and behavior of quite a few types of cancers
Bollards, roads signs and other road signalisation. It is honestly a problem.
what’s your favourite type of bollard and why?
I am a big fan of the Slovenian/Austrian combo snow pole+bollard. I think they are such a clever thing for places where it snows enough to cover the actual bollard and doesn’t require workers to drag around a bunch of snow poles every winter, they just gotta pull them out.
What’s the reason to not just have the pole permanently attached on top, instead of retracting?
Honestly I can’t give you a proper answer here. I never actually thought about it before so I just looked up the Slovenian law about it (I don’t speak German so I didn’t bother with the Austrian one) and I couldn’t find anything that specifically says that the snow poles must/can’t be there between XY dates (just a bunch of stuff about how they gotta be positioned). If I had to guess it is a mix of these things:
- Aesthetics
- Visibility
- Giving the road workers something to do
- It is how it has always been done. Before these combo bollards became a thing and in places they still haven’t replaced the old ones they still add/remove a full on wooden snow pole next to the bollards every year.
There might be some other reasoning for it too, but this is what comes to mind as possible options.
The lottery, suits and the pope.
Depends on your definition of “a lot,” but I know a fair amount about Star Trek
The history of computing and video games.
I wouldn’t say I’m a world class expert or anything, but I know enough to talk your ear off at a dinner party.
Growing and managing strawberries in a commercial setting.
Obscure game history
Car painting and repairs, high end wholesale bicycle market from 2009-2017
The history of food culture in Asturias in northern Spain.
I surfed the north coast of Spain many years ago, and the food was epic. I never forget that trip. Where can I learn more of the Asturian food history?
I write about it in English at https://eatingasturias.com, assuming self promotion isn’t a terrible sin here
Fireworks and pyrotechnic chemistry.
