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not sad, your dream job is never sad, allow your mind to soar
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Alan's cravat is actually much longer than mine, I wasn't able to do the full wrap, it must be like 3 or more yards
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I always watch period movies in period costume
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also note the implication that Israel absolutely did tell Trump this was happening, and in that moment the white house could have shut it down completely--at least for now--by threatening to leak it to Iran
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So I don't think it's accurate to say Trump opposed Israel's attack or tried to get them not to do it. All of the reporting is consistent with him supporting the war but not wanting the blame
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Like, when the gestapo is herding you into into cattle cars, that's not the time for neighbors to be like, the one thing you actually did do wrong is your grass was too high
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A lot of what we're arguing over is vibes not policy
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It seems like there's more solidarity than there used to be, I think in other eras local police would have been pretty noisy about being put in harms way by a misguided federal operation, to the point where ICE would be painted as anti-cop
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maybe there has been a sudden spontaneous increase in natural experiments
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So basically yeah I don't think the spare tire actually is a critical need but it does feel a little fraud-y that so many people do not seem to realize their new car does not contain a spare tire
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I don't really recommend AAA. I don't get what kind of math people are doing to say that AAA will be worth it. You can in fact just pay for a tow when you need a tow, which is going to be practically never
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step 3 is I guess call a tow truck. It takes some pretty severe damage to get to this point
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The expectation these days is that if your tire is flat you won't change the tire, you will instead have an escalation path:
1)just try putting air in it. Even with a hole this is often enough to get you to a repair shop
2)use fix-a-flat. Repair shops hate it, but it can seal a hole too big for (1)
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even with the US supplying missile defense to Israel, our defense industry isn't *that* big, we will run out
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this is stuff that used to be obvious because pedestrians used to have to do things like walk carts or horses down the street. 19th century streets were just absolutely filled with pedestrians. In the car era streets can feel like car-only zones but the law has never said this
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Also "not obstructing traffic" does not mean you have to make room for cars to pass. If a large crowd of people is walking down the street, cars absolutely do have to wait, there is no right to go fast anywhere
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the same administration is ordering unprofitable coal plants to reopen at higher cost to ratepayers
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If Trump calls you and you don't press "record" what are you even doing
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The misconception comes I think from Yellowstone, which has a large *wild* bison herd that is not inoculated. They think privately owned bison ranches are like that but they're not
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The cattle ranchers' complaint is that bison spread brucellosis but in fact a cow is just as likely to infect a bison as a bison is to a cow, and both are inoculated and treated in the same ways, they actually are drop-in exact substitutes on this issue
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anyway, I just wonder if this "reverts to the crown" thing helps explain why England centralized power while HRE did not
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Now that it has merged back into the crown, the crown can recreate it to give to someone else. Anyway this is not how things worked in the Holy Roman Empire. When a duke or count or whatever is elected emperor, their territory does not revert to the crown.
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In England if a duke becomes king, technically the duchy ceases to exist. All duchies were created by the crown and it has now merged back into the crown. So Charles is king, not king and duke of Edinburgh or whatever
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In an archeological review a team of archeologists physically scours the site, digs up all archeological features and artifacts and records them. Is there an analogous process for environmental review? A team of grad students crisscross the field recording every type of frog?
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I would really like an explainer of what they actually *do* to produce an environmental review. Not an explanation of the paperwork required at the end, I mean what specific action is required to be done and how do they know when it is complete?