mishagriffith.bsky.social
Historian of Technology, Cold War student, Covert communications consultant (non-violent insurrections only need apply), Professor Yes, Documentary filmmaker, Electrician with notions (Lighting designer), Leguminati, Maisie Mae's mom.
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This recently happened to me while I was lecturing about the medieval Czech general Jan Zizka. I had been referring to him as being old for the last 20 years. Now we are the same age. Guess I will be referring to him in the future as a spry gentleman.
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Trade unionists were listed third in the Niemöller poem, following communists and socialists.
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Yup--tasting was the job no one really wanted. But to be fair, saltpeter is a good preservative. If you have ever eaten corned beef, that was preserved with potassium nitrate. It is also an excellent fertilizer, especially with hydroponically grown foods.
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According to Bert Hall, who writes about firearms in the early Renaissance, they had some interesting ideas, such as the urine from women who drank beer copiously was most potent. One on their main sources for Potassium nitrate was seepage through brick walls in basements
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But we couldn't have a woman president because she would get too emotional.
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Not to mention the colonial aspect. The Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company spent all that time, treasure, and lives... for tea? Riiight. If a kingdom controlled 80% of all the saltpeter in the world, it could pick and choose with whom it went to war.
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I love to bore my students with nuances about gunpowder.
About divergence points-- your idea is intriguing.
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The need to make potassium nitrate (saltpeter) came from Great Britain's colonization and control of India. The Bihar region contained 80%of the world's naturally available saltpeter in the 18th century. Other sources, such as bat caves, provided a less potent form.
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To paraphrase Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca when a German major asked if Bogart could imagine the N&zi army in America: "there are some places I would advise against invading "
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Except that flag is not "foreign" to Mullen.
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I once watched a river otter take on a Labrador Retriever twice it's size.
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Another thing to have handy: phone numbers of lawyers.
Leave at home: Your personal cell phone. You can be tracked after the fact, and they can get your contacts. Use a burner phone or walkie-talkies if you must communicate with others.
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If the revolutionaries don't livestream it, the oppressors get to tell their own version on their captive networks.
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Do you remember when this sort of image would send Alex Jones into a massive freak out? I think the original trigger was something called Jade Helm.
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Then the prosecutor will have to demonstrate that the defendant knew all of his passengers were undocumented and he was part of the conspiracy to take these people to perform nefarious tasks, instead of, say, his turn to drive the car pool that day. My original comment was a joke, BTW.
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I had to think about this for a moment.
Eid Mubarak.
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However, the USSR was physically invaded by an army whose goal was to kill all Slavic people or turn them into slaves. Additionally, Stalin did not care how many of his people would die to fulfill his goals. The Soviet people were caught between the hammer and the anvil.
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If transporting undocumented aliens within the United States is illegal, then every single bus driver would be in jail.
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As a curious child, my grandfather tried to steer me towards wild berries that were safe. On my own, I tried yew berries, and while the pink outside is sweet, the thin coating on the inside seed tastes much like syrup of ipecac, and it would be difficult to swallow.
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My husband hates countertop appliances save for the coffee maker, the microwave, the toaster oven, and the rice cooker. Everything else must stay hidden until needed.
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I don't remember who said it, but "armchair generals discuss strategy, real generals discuss logistics."
I don't hear any logistics.
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Trump would take Musk back if Musk was sufficiently contrite in public. Trump knows his control over Republican politicians is doubly strong with a bottomless purse. Trump's sycophants, however, may act recklessly on his behalf.
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And nuclear weapons.
I'll see myself out.
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Meteorologists in central locations predicting the weather? Like we had at NOAA?
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Where there is smoke, there is a bridge on fire.
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Pick me up off of the floor!
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Yes, actually, I did. His letters are sprinkled with some very shocking language.
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When I dream of flight, I don't have to go fast, just move through the air. If I had this power, I would spend my time just going everywhere to see things.
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I know it sounds corny, but this is my favorite type of dream, stretching out my arms and flying
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"Of course we covered this (insert historical event) in class. You were probably asleep during it."
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Correct. Also, there has been fraud in Medicare and Medicaid--from the health care professionals and administrators. Please see Tenant Health/Redding Med. Center case, where a cardiologist and a cardiac surgeon performed hundreds of surgeries on patients over 65, many unnecessary.
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I am so here for her!
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Perfect examples, although sciences in the Soviet Union had conformed to Marxist/Leninists ideologies prior to Lysenko, but without the complete disasters that Lysenkoism would bring.
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Back to fires and foraging. I'll miss hot showers.
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An EMP may just be what will get rid of AI. Tough luck about all those pacemakers, however.
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Just don't leave it out on the counter.
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One of my online assignments could be submitted as video. I watched the submission, and noted it didn't fit the instructions at all. But it had a suspicious file name. Ten seconds on Google brought me to an AI site that will turn a script into a finished video. We live in the dumbest time line.
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Tapper: these prosecutors did not go after candidates. They found enough evidence to charge a person and a corporation with crimes.
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Please tell me the boxes are on the ground floor. One time we had to move out or a four-story walk up, and I rigged a crane arm and pulley system off the balcony to lower 30+ boxes of books to the ground.
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Looks about right. The Central Valley is an oven from May until October. And it will get worse.
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Much scarier than an alien
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Not to mention the frogs and the bears sent to tear apart the boys who teased the prophet Elijah and his bald head.