Believe it or not, this is a legit thing. I haven’t done anything much with rocks*, but here’s a good example for soil. If it’s fine grained (smaller than sand) and you can’t see the particles by eye, you can rub some on your teeth:

Buttery texture --> clay Gritty on the teeth --> silt

Not approved for use on contaminated ground!

• I’m a structural engineer, but I work closely with geotechnical engineers and do my best to understand it as well

You do

Yeah… I love both but Led Zep is way more of a hippie rock vibe and motorhead is like biker rock

I think the short supply is due to bird flu, so not really

I need this meme template in my life

The sad thing is, this would be a completely hysterical thing to say like 10 years ago but now it’s a serious consideration.

Electing this dickhead once is a blip but doing it twice in a row indicates that the american voters actually want this, which is deeply troubling for Europeans (and the rest of the world).

A sandwich with eggs from a chicken, instead of the traditional Murican Haribo Egg sandwich.

They don’t even have to leave NATO formally, just undermine confidence in article 5 enough that it’s no longer a deterrent.

I’ve never heard of PortMaster, I still haven’t got bored of all the tiny best set games yet!

I think I played half life (maybe 2?) when I was a kid and it scared the crap out of me!

Aliexpress. I bought from a UK website first time and it was double the price but still shipped from China, making it a bit pointless. This is the aliexpress link I used, I have no connection to the seller and only bought from them once, but it arrived in good condition and I’ve tested it works as expected. The unit I received was a “v5”, or “screen panel v4”, I paid £25:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007448762232.html

Edit: maybe it’s the tariffs? Haha

Yeah it’s great, my daughter has been enjoying all the old games as well so i bought her one too for her birthday. It’s much easier as a parent to give her the R36s and the retro games because they are all self contained offline things unlike a lot of modern games.

Some things I’d say to consider before buying:

• Factor in the cost of a good quality SD card (or two, one for the system and one for ROMs) to replace the one that comes with it. There are loads of warnings in forums etc about the cards that are supplied, but even so I was shocked when the card that came with mine broke after 2 days. Get a decent card like Samsung Evo Plus 128GB.
• It’s easier to start fresh when you get a new card than it would be to clone the one that comes with the device. Get the OS from here: https://github.com/AeolusUX/ArkOS-R3XS/releases
• For ROMs, search archive.org for “tiny best set go”

I’ve been playing Crash Bandicoot on an R36s recently, it’ such a nostalgic game. Amazing that you can play it on a ~£35 handheld! You can’t beat the gameplay in some of the old classics.

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Yeah and I have a suspicion that not many Irish people would feel represented by “what ho, old bean”

In my experience (as a Brit), people generally only refer to Americans as Yanks in a mildly pejorative way or if we’re taking the piss, otherwise it’s Americans.

Agreed. And alternatives exist, like Kobo

Oof

He’d probably like today’s politics, it seems fashionable to just lean into anything bad someone says about you.

Nokia N900?

British values on display here, it’s not even marginal (48% for Ukraine vs 20% for Trump’s America).

It’s not often I’m proud of my country these days, but this is one of those rare moments.

Here we go lads