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wolframhydroxide

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  • Washington [state]’s largest climate polluter shuts down despite federal order

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  • Do you have the values on which these back-of-the-napkin calculations were based? As a natural sciences teacher, I'd love to discuss it with my students as an example.

  • Washington [state]’s largest climate polluter shuts down despite federal order

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  • Not that I'm disagreeing with your point, but $65k multiplied by a hundred is $6.5 million, not $650k

  • Donald Trump Says He Wants 'Ownership' of Greenland Because It's 'Psychologically Important for Me'

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  • Perhaps not, but I'd certainly tune in to watch it make a game try of it.

  • Oh nooooooo

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  • Children Of Time Intensifies

  • Trump to meet Venezuela’s Machado and says it would be ‘great honor’ to take her Nobel Prize

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  • I considered it, but Novichok is too quick.

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  • Trump to meet Venezuela’s Machado and says it would be ‘great honor’ to take her Nobel Prize

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  • I personally prefer the idea of a Peace Prize which ensures peace by agreeing on people to take out and putting them into their own worst nightmares. Putin dies by Polonium, but only after several times being told he had ingested polonium, only to find out it was something less-deadly, but much more lastingly unpleasant, like dioxins. By the time they actually give him polonium, they can just not tell him and let him find out for himself. Trump gets to watch as his name is scrubbed from every book, every plaque. Full Akhenaten treatment, only acknowledged as a void in space where a legacy could have been. Every act, undone. Every precedent, removed. Complete Damnatio Memoriae. For the rest of his short life, he is acknowledged only by his prisoner number or, for variety, merely looked at with a sneer of disgust and a plugged nose. That sort of thing.

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  • Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

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  • Poe's law always applies in the modern internet. Everyone close your sarcasm tags!

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    Trump is such a stable genius

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  • Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

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  • It exists here, but it's a full time job, so it's mostly just executive orders.

    It hasn't seen a new post in months.

  • TIL that Baba Yetu, the grammy-winning theme song to the video game Civilization IV, is The Lord's Prayer in Swahili.

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  • Yes, Tin uses different texts in different languages, using the syntax and phonology of different languages as instruments in their own right. He has many which utilise the unique phonology and musical traditions to great effect, such as incorporating a haka into "Kia Hora The Marino" (based on a traditional Māori farewell haka), using a traditional Bulgarian choral tradition in "Temen Oblak", or Mongolian throat singing in "Tsas Narand Uyarna".

    After being a huge fan of his for over a decade, though, I've realised that, while he has a unique talent for turning phonemes into musical instruments, he almost completely ignores the natural rhythm of the native languages. I realised this when I listened to his third album, in which the final song adapts Kennedy's "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. In that song, the rhythm of the lyrics sound painfully syncopated with the natural flow of the language, in some cases holding really weird syllables. I have to wonder if, to native speakers of all of the other languages he's adapted, his songs also sound like they're ripping the flow of the language limb-from-limb.

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  • Ooh, did you read Grágás? It's a shockingly entertaining read for a legal code. The section on Wergild is great, and you can learn a lot about the attitudes the Icelanders held toward different behaviours. Also, it strongly implies that there were at least a few people in Iceland who were training polar bears (which they must have either imported from Greenland, or found stranded on passing ice floes), and those trainers must have lobbied pretty hard, because it was specifically illegal to import trained brown bears from Norway.

    There are a lot of gems in there. Simultaneously insightful and very metal.

  • ‘A national disgrace’: 19 states to raise minimum wage but federal rate stuck at $7.25

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  • So it seems that the issue is that you, fundamentally, either:

    A) do not believe that everybody should be compensated equal pay for equal work

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    B) do not believe that everybody who works deserves to be able to support themselves on their income.

    Furthermore, it appears to me that you are assuming a great deal about 16-year-olds. I teach high school, and most of my students are working to support their family every minute they aren't actively in school, sleeping, or ferrying themselves on public transit.

    Finally, the fact that you seem to think that some jobs are simply lesser than others belies the fact that you value certain workers less. I genuinely wish that you could experience every person in one of these jobs walking out for two days, so you could witness society crumble. Do you think that the custodian should make less than the financier? Because I'll tell you which one of those jobs requires more actual labour, and, spoiler: it's not the dude throwing everyone else's wellbeing on the pyre of their own self aggrandisement.

  • DHS says REAL ID, which DHS certifies, is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship

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  • Except that mediabiasfactcheck is wont to be bullshit, underestimating right-leaning and using bullshit reasons to downgrade reliability of many sources to equivocate about the unreliability of conservative propaganda sources.

    It's possible that this is a fair assessment, but I certainly wouldn't take MBFC's word for it.

  • The Nebula

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  • Thanks for the clarification!

  • The Nebula

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  • Of course. What I meant by that was "oh, so the background behind the person would appear totally unobscured, and diffraction and aberration from the weird shape blocking part of the view wouldn't make it more fuzzy?"

  • The Nebula

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  • Just regular background?

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  • You have just perfectly stated my point: a teacher's union rep CLEARLY cares about other workers, but that's not the POINT of a Teacher's Union. I'm saying that you don't see anyone complaining that there's a union to protect those specific labourers, because such a complaint would be patently ridiculous. It is similarly ridiculous to assume that a Feminist opposes the rights of non-women just because their movement is focused on women. That is my point.