alexiterick.bsky.social
Scientist, board gamer, SFF fan, cyclist, lapsed rower, cryptoclassicist, lingthusiast, fiddle player.
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The UK also still has regular army units with local connections.
The standard British military parade is the county regiment marching through the streets of a market town/small city.
youtu.be/ecwHDXlWC14?...
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And Feet of Clay certainly implies that Jews exist (Ankh-Morpork has kosher butchers)
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The English summer is glorious.
All three days of it.
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In Philly it looked like the organizers had printed a bunch and were handing them out near the start of the march (along with No Kings signs and American flags).
I did see at least one homemade one though.
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There's also a fire in Wharton State Forest in the NJ Pine Barrens.
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Something about having a lot of power and needing to keep the blade in the water longer to get the power down efficiently?
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I think that's specifically the streetcar drivers' union for when they go on strike.
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It looks like it's "No Dictators" in Spain and Sweden (no event in Denmark, Norway or Belgium), but still "No Kings" in the Netherlands.
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Remember that until IIRC 2001 Americans didn't need a passport to visit Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean.
(See also why only about half of French people have passports)
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Or originally an attempt to create a specific set of vibes to be experienced by the *players*
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Latest paper from Hai and Hakkenshit in J Improbable Chem?
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Is chess art?
How about the rules of baseball?
This isn't a gotcha, it's a genuine question- I appreciate the idea of defining art as "anything created for a purpose that isn't strictly utilitarian," in part because it takes you to some interesting places.
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Ernst Chain, one of the three men awarded the Nobel prize for penicillin (along with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey) was Jewish, and later in life served on the board of the Weizmann Institute.
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Particularly given the previous relationship or lack thereof between HSI (criminal investigators doing at least some genuinely important, demanding work) and ERO (goons) and the fact that it seems HSI is now being sent to do ERO's job.
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AI stands for something else in agriculture (that also comes from a bull).
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My personal view is that the visible duel between Vader and Obi-Wan is just the surface manifestation of a conflict actually taking place in the Force.
Obi-Wan is much slower there than he was in the Cantina.
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Either cut or filmed so you don't see Vader, just the shadow of the helmet on the wall.
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That's Wilders, who's fascist or at least fascist-adjacent.
Schoof is not a member of any party and had never held elected office before being picked as PM (it was part of the coalition agreement not to pick one of their party leaders)
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It's a different thing happening here.
(The leader of the largest party in the governing coalition, with 37 of the 150 seats in Parliament, pulled his party out, meaning that the coalition no longer has a majority)
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The BBC measures height in double-decker buses, size of large objects in Olympic swimming pools, and areas in either football pitches or Waleses.
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(it was an extremely valuable Gauguin that allegedly hung on a FIAT factory worker's kitchen wall for 40 years before his son noticed that it looked like another Gauguin in a book)
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I think that varies by country- in some places a good faith buyer of stolen goods becomes the legal owner.
There was a court case a few years ago about a painting stolen from London, left on a train in France, then bought at an Italian lost property auction by someone who didn't know what it was.
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Not even all of Greece, only the pre-1912 borders. Places like Crete, the Dodecanese and a lot of northern Greece are AIUI still officially under the Ecumenical Patriarch.
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For historical reasons the title is King (or Queen) "of the Belgians" not "of Belgium".
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I would be interested to see stats on how many people have a disability that means they can't drive a car but can still ride a bike, compared to the reverse.
(Particularly if we're suggesting good bike infrastructure that allows non-standard cycles such as trikes)
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Does her school charge fees? It's a horrible dystopian nightmare, but as far as I know its pupils/victims aren't from wealthy families- closer to the opposite.
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Isn't Yurt Glampers an Expanded Universe Y-wing pilot?
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Athens was a sleepy backwater but there wasn't really anywhere within the borders of the 1830 Greek state that wasn't.
It was the third largest settlement, and the largest outside the Peloponnese (behind Tripoli and Patras).
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I had a German roommate in college during a European Championship football tournament.
He told me that German fans are very careful to raise *both arms at once* when celebrating a goal...
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I get the sense that in Europe they start 11 a side at U13 level. This is certainly what English FA guidelines say, and from what I can find what La Masia does.
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Famously Matt Turner didn't play soccer until he was 14 (he preferred basketball and baseball).
Though that's pretty much unheard of in Europe, where almost everyone who makes it to the top level is in a big club's youth setup by the age of 10.
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It doesn't look like the ship was trying to pass under the bridge (was moving backwards at the time of impact).
Also would have to be an impressive error- I think US charts give clearances in feet, so they would have had to divide by 3 to be at risk of overestimating.
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You hear the same thing in the UK about WW1 (sometimes even to the extent of saying the officers bought their commissions)
34 of the 92 boys who took part in the Procession of Boats at Eton on June 4, 1914 would be killed in the war.
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Center City Philly has the original grid system, the only problem is that you have to remember a random sequence of mostly trees.
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Not sure if much of India has the climate to grow hops or barley.
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Trying to think of configurations that raced but never won a championship.
I have flat-8, H16 and turbine- any others?
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Baking is chemistry like baseball is physics.
Being good at one doesn't mean you're good at the other, but sometimes it's useful to understand why certain things work or don't.
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Tell that to all of Philadelphia.
Though it's still a problem that nowhere in the US seems to have a decent party wall system.
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As far as I know voting isn't actually compulsory in Australia. You have to go into the voting booth, but once in there you're free to spoil your ballot or leave it blank.
It's no more compelled speech than jury duty is.
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And sweet potatoes seem to have been "genetically modified" (horizontal gene transfer by Agrobacterium tumefaciens) without human intervention.
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Chemistry PhD here- you could possibly write a 2000-word essay on just the chemistry definition, and people would still argue about it.
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Clause IV has been gone for long enough that some people seem to have forgotten what it said.
"To secure for the workers, *by hand or by brain*..."
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Probably true for Vader himself given his personal history (remember, his mother was enslaved).
On the other hand, all that means is that the small minority of Imperials who have worked with Vader know that his weird religious hangups mean you get Force-choked if you try it while he's looking.
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Do Smarts still have interchangeable plastic body panels?
I know some cheap European cars do the "bring your own stereo" thing.
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"Well, I don't buy new cars!"
Congratulations. Neither do I. But those used cars we both buy have to come from somewhere.
(That somewhere isn't necessarily new car sales to private owners, there are countries where the majority of new car sales are to fleets)
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I don't know when (if ever!) you could last buy a new car that cost less than 10k in today's dollars.
The 1950 Henry J was specifically designed (with Federal support) as a cheap car.
It was decontented to the point that the trunk lid didn't open, and cost the equivalent of $17k today.
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Compare Badia spices in the international/Hispanic aisle to McCormick spices in the cooking/baking aisle.
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Is this supposed to be a reference to pyramid schemes?