The eastern front was a lot more dynamic and had fewer trenches.

These are both old men... They both take a lot of drugs. This is America. Have you seen an older person who doesn't have weekly pill organizer?

So MRI helium is scarce because the required purity is very high to get the 4 Kelvin superfluid behavior. Helium for filling balloons (of the party type) is a lot, lot cheaper. I don't know exactly how that translates into airship envelope helium, but you can't take balloon-grade helium and put it in your MRI machine.

Somebody who is less lazy than me should try to translate the glyphs.

What's wild is that Chechnya has an amazing indigenous folk dance music form that by most metrics is way, way too fast to fit into the guidelines.

I learned this from Adam Neely.

And apparently anything that mentions that anything critical of Firefox gets downvoted on Lemmy, gets downvoted on Lemmy.

the cap is usually enforced by workers saying "Fuck you I'm going home to eat and sleep" and being immune from retribution (not from the fuck you part though).

In most of the United States this is partially true: your fixed salary cannot be docked for failing to work overtime, but you can absolutely be terminated for this reason, or any other reason, or no reason at all.

You can also be offered a new job at a lower fixed salary going forward. But the fixed salary cannot be changed for periods that have already been worked.

A big part of WWI is that the web of treaties and alliances were all secret, as in classified information by each country.

NATO is not a secret. The membership roster and terms and conditions are known to all, including potential adversaries like Mr. Putin. This has a major effect on stabilizing international relations because nobody has to guess what NATO would do.

Despite his rhetoric, we know that Putin understands how NATO works, because he has been pulling materiel out of Kaliningrad. This leaves the Russian exclave extremely vulnerable to an invasion from NATO territory. But Putin is not worried about that, probably because he actually trusts NATO to follow the NATO charter.

Pay no attention to gconf, dconf, GSettings, or whatever else there is.

And Governor Rod "This Senate seat is on the market" Blagojevich.

That many people would sure help if you have two miles off poles to install.

Well that certainly doesn't seem like a successful trial strategy.

Boy scouts always traditionally had a strong component that was preparing boys to enter basic military training. The camping in the woods part was never just for fun-it's getting a start on land navigation, and basic patrolling skills.

Of course, every troop emphasizes different things, but "off-putting quasi-military aspects" are not at all off-brand for the boy scouts.

I think that's what I said the last time this one came around.

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Israel is a more-or-less democracy in a region where that is quite scarce. For a long time, most of the Arab league was aligned with the Soviet Union, and Israel was the only and primary counterbalance.

That kind of inertia takes a long time to unwind, even though the Soviet Union no longer exists, and several of those Arab League members have made permanent peace with Israel.

In conclusion, I don't think Israel "has anything" on the United States. I think the plight of a few million stateless Palestinians is not enough to override the various realpolitik concerns that the United States has in the region.

The loading and unloading is a pain.

And the widest parts of I-10 are not the everyday choke points. Other parts of the system are the worst offenders on traffic.

Well moving for a mistrial is certainly an attempt "to cause a mistrial".

The drug companies didn't exactly decide to step away from the death penalty fully on their own initiative. They were threatened with criminal prosecutions in Europe for abetting executions in the United States.