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"Covent-Garden was now the farthest Stretch of my Ambition, where I shone forth in the Balconies at the Play-houses, visited Whores, made Love to Orange-Wenches, and damned Plays." Henry Fielding, 'Joseph Andrews' 1742
"But what makes People in such a hurry here?" "London, Master, is the Seat of Business, People do ev'ry thing in a hurry here, except paying their Debts, and lying with their Wives." [play, The Fine Lady's Airs, 1708]
Across the United States, utilities are planning new gas-fired power generation at their fastest rate in years — in part to supply tech companies who are building out massive data centers driven by AI hype. Generative AI remains a climate disaster.
New gas plants just keep on coming, defying expectations that their rapid growth was nearing an end.
reading some 17C comic poetry whilst listening to The Decemberists and honestly there's no much to tell between them
I take it back, oranges were involved ...
yeah, I did think that's possible ... there was a Tom's Coffee House, so it's a good candidate
A new adaption of Nicholas Nickleby features a radical reworking of the Brothers Cheeryble ...
