GotAnyMegadeth

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Comment · 6 years ago
Do people eat that?
Comment · 7 years ago
This is something I'd really love to give a go, but since transitioning I'm just not so sure about safety. I travelled South East Asia on a shoestring budget before I came out and had a few scrapes that turned out fine, but I'm not sure they would have gone as well if I was just a lone woman at the time, especially if I got clocked!

In my experience the places that sound scary are usually less scary on the ground once you get there, but the stakes are pretty high... I'm still travelling occasionally, but mainly to safer places. I hope to build my confidence back up!

Thanks for sharing! :-)

Comment · 8 years ago
In case any passers by don't know about an extra factor that makes Cambodia even worse: lots of the country floods annually. This means that you can clear an area of landmines, but then when the floods come it can wash in landmines from other areas into the areas you thought were clear. It's very sad :-(
Comment · 8 years ago
As someone who lives in Bristol I'd always say over for London, up for Birmingham, over for Cardiff and down for Exeter.
Comment · 8 years ago
That's not entirely true. Twitter doesn't show you all tweets in chronological order, it has some kind of sorting algorithm like Facebook. If you follow enough people popular tweets and tweeters definitely drown out less popular ones
Comment · 8 years ago
I felt quite sad to read the fate of the top of that list

> Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組 Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company which was the world's oldest continuously ongoing independent company, operating for over 1,400 years until it was absorbed as a subsidiary of Takamatsu in 2006.

Comment · 8 years ago
I like how the big quotes that separate up the paragraph aren't repeated elsewhere in the text like many similar sites seem to do!
Comment · 9 years ago
Hello! Sorry I'm a bit confused by your reply, do you mean if it ONLY decreases short term ones and not long term?
Comment · 9 years ago
Unless you have state run health care, in which case a law enforcing seat belt wearing (I assume that's what you meant?) could save everyone money.
Comment · 9 years ago
Hello :-) Could I just ask what ICO stands for? Thanks
Comment · 9 years ago
One possible argument: You can't get "mutually assured destruction" from vulnerabilities. With guns you can say if you invade here I'll shoot you, if you were to bomb me, I'd bomb you back. But with vulnerabilities you can't even say you have them as that would help the other party find them. You can't say unleash a cyber attack on me and I'll do the same back in the same way. It seems rather than being both an offence AND defence like guns, they are an offence at the expense of your defence.
Comment · 9 years ago

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