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My understanding is that translation to english is actually really fraught so they almost certainly have an elaborate speechwriting staff for this
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I mean, they're raiding home depots, renting hotel rooms and arresting the maids
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so, yes and no. The US does not control Israel. But also I think it's highly likely that the white house encouraged Netanyahu to do this and maybe he would not have otherwise
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Cuomo's popularity is not because he got a ton of establishment support per se, but the establishment--the same one that pushed him out previously--very surprisingly did not come out against him, and I don't understand why
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I'm hoping the freedom caucus or some such doesn't try to jam a declaration of war into the big beautiful bill
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this is the way
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These people have been singing bomb iran for decades and it's highly likely that there was a white house discussion about getting Netanyahu to do it
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It's not a good deal. Employee premium average is $1,401, which is less than this, but this is *only* primary care, which doesn't do squat. Insurance pays hospital bills, surgeries, specialists, drugs. Primary care docs often won't even administer vaccines anymore, just a referral to a pharmacy.
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I mean sure it's not an allergy like peanuts are an allergy but still we treat lactose intolerance like it's this rare quirky issue rather than the norm world wide
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it's wild how you're not allowed to point out that most kids are allergic to the only beverage allowed to be sold for school lunch
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This is relevant to school lunch. A veggie-intensive main course on monday and a meat course on friday can actually produce a better nutrient balance than trying to do chicken mcnuggets with a side of vegetables everyday as they currently do
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another problem I have with the image, and this was a problem with the food pyramid too, is the implication that you should eat all types of nutrients every day. You know, the whole "percent daily values" thing. It's actually not necessary or helpful to sample every kind of nutrient every day
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butter, sour cream, cheese, etc can be delicious in things, I'm not saying you should absolutely avoid it. But you're already getting too much dairy in these forms, you should not be drinking milk
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wouldn't it be wild if we secretly had a competent space agency that's been servicing a moon base for decades, and we're contracting self-immolating SpaceX rockets as a cover story so no one believes we have the tech
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Taft had a falling out with progressives but the episode makes no sense unless you understand Taft as aligned with progressives: it was infighting, Taft *betrayed* and not merely opposed
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I think they started with the premise that a shot should be "1 unit" and tried to define servings around that. But also maybe a historical thing, victorian wine glasses really were about shot sized
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this product still exists in really high end Indian tailoring, I don't see it anywhere else. I've been a little disappointed in what passes for gold thread in, say, the Royal School of Needlework
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This is not a super durable product but it works. I imagine it being similar to water gilding, it's really fickle trying to get the gold to stick but when it sticks it *sticks,* permanent even without much in the way of adhesives
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The gold sort of bundles the silk together--the diameter of the yarn is narrower after it receives the gold than it was before. And then you can use this either for embroidery or for weaving
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Most medieval gold thread was instead "spun gold." You start with a bunch of filament silk dyed red, then as you spin the filaments into thread on the spindle you delicately wrap them in a strip of flattened really thin gold.
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This product did exist though and the shininess problem was addressed by flattening the wire. So you end up with this long brilliant flat strip of gold. You can't directly weave with this but you can use it in embroidery
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There was no medieval polyester though so how'd they do it? You can pull a bar repeatedly into a thin gold wire, perhaps even thread sized, but it turns out this kind of stinks as a product. Round gold wire isn't bright and reflective, and of course imagine weaving with wire
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First let's clear something up: gold is not a color. You can dye silk yellow and weave with it, this is yellow silk not "cloth of gold." The modern term might be "metallic gold," it is both yellow and very shiny, and today even in high end silks this is usually achieved by adding polyester threads