Hexboare [they/them]

I have these thick boba glass straws that go fine in the dishwasher

(So I think anyway, they’re probably disgusting)

The vehicle money stuff is basically fine relative to the other stuff they’ve posted

If bars have glasses I don’t see why they can’t have glass straws

The difference between a cup and a straw is girth

I only drink from rivers, like a real man

Also my tummy hurts

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They’d already released 15 of the MCU films by that point

We’ve had massive public subsidies (~$10k USD per student) for religious schools for almost half a century after it was initially abolished in the 1800s

Do you think your government will tell them though?

Which part? Things like the clathrate gun hypothesis, or that it will likely be hundreds of years and still a lot of effort for humanity to be done?

For the latter, I think you can take the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum as the “done” point (I don’t really agree there is such a point because people already live in ridiculous conditions now, and you can protect yourself from a wet bulb event for the price of a car) and from memory under RCP 8.5 (and drilling up the arctic) the IPCC modelling put that at a couple hundred years off.

The timeline is really more like a hundred years at least, and even then you’re relying heavily on catastrophic and sometimes dubious tipping points

Third trick

vodka chicken

H7N9 on raw chicken remained viable at −20°C for 9 days, 4°C for 7 days, and 25°C for 4 days; therefore, H7N9 on raw chicken could be a potential source of transmission domestically and internationally.

Second, we investigated the virucidal effects of six standard disinfectants—household bleach, ethanol, hand soap, peracetic acetic acid, lactic acid, and acetic acid—on H7N9 and H5N8 (clade 2.3.4.4b) on raw chicken (appendix p 2). HPAI viruses such as H7N9 and H5N8 were not susceptible to 2 min incubation with hand soap or lactic acid; however, no infectious virus could be detected after a 2 min incubation at room temperature with the other disinfectant agents.

Looking at data from 2004 to 2024, researchers uncovered 607 cases of bird flu in cats around the world, including 302 deaths. These cases spanned 18 countries and involved 12 different types of cats, from household pets to big cats like tigers.

Being the “no outdoor cats” change you want to see in the world

Yet*

Yes, I don’t think the liberal narrative on Trump is

He’s constrained by the rule of law

Surely

Depends on environment, time of day, activity etc

I’m partial to carbon based cooking myself

Prosecutors said he arrived in Ukraine in February 2024, alleging he was paid between 600,000 and 800,000 rubles (£5,504 and £7,339) a month to take part in military operations against Russian troops.

To put this in context, a teacher with about ten years of experience in that Australian state would be getting about (the equivalent of) 600,000 rubles a month anyway

Didn’t the US ditch digital camo a decade ago?

Ellen Meiksins Wood’s pretty compelling argument was that capitalism arose first as agrarian capitalism in England with the enclosure of common property, the imposition of market relations (tenants needing to rent and dependent on markets rather than substance farming) and the relationship between the 200 or so landowning family who dominated the state.

Wood also brings the idea of improvement of productive capacity as a critical definitional element of capitalism - which I think is really crucial.

So for example, you say what if the Greeks or Romans deployed steam technology in an industrial way. And someone else might respond “oh well, they didn’t have the metallurgical technology to prepare the high quality steel required to use steam technology to further mechanise production”. But if you’re a medieval business owner, you’re not really thinking that if you invested in the metallurgical tech tree, you’ll let steam power - with the exception of the capitalist hell bent on increasing output in a highly competitive environment.

Technological development is driven primarily by social relations - which is why you have marvels like the Antikythera mechanism with a complex system of 60+ gears sinking to the bottom of the Mediterranean and the technology otherwise being basically unused in Greek society.

Not really new, they’ve backed that cartel for ages

https://world.time.com/2014/01/14/dea-boosted-mexican-drug-cartel/

The U.S. government allowed the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel to carry out its business unimpeded between 2000 and 2012 in exchange for information on rival cartels, an investigation by El Universal claims.

Citing court documents, the Mexican newspaper reports that DEA officers met with top Sinaloa officials over fifty times and offered to have charges against cartel members dropped in the U.S., among other pledges.