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  And they tend to have large families. (see quiver full in the US.) "Outbreed the infidel" seems to be a somewhat common policy. Haredi, quiver fullers, Catholics, etc. How often has it worked as an explicit or implict way to...
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  invading Spanish slugs I'm not sure I want to know what those are....
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  That’s why I like Bible Gateway: there’s a word by word translation of the New Testament in there, so you can see how divergent various other versions are. Seconded on that. Bible Gateway not only gives a ton of English...
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  They’d do really well in shallow littorals, like the Baltic, Mediterranean, South China Sea and surroundings Like the Taiwan Strait and the Persian Gulf....
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  WHO DECIDES what is or is not scripture? There were huge dogfights about that during the first few centuries CE and the question hasn't been totally resolved to this day. Look up Marcion of Sinope and Irenaeus. The Septuagint...
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  Oddly enough, when challenged to provide chapter & verse, no one has ever actually shown me WHERE the Bible says that. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 kind of says that if viewed at a certain angle. Of course, the likelihood is that...
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  Pre-300, for which profound apologies are offered, but the notion of "industrial-scale grave robbing" seemed worth passing on as a possible plot element. https://www.science.org/content/article/now-we-know-where-dead-went-did-grave-robbers-plunder-battlefields Bones went to fertilizer and sugar processing, book argues...
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  it is impossible by design to reset the Laundry as an American agency. (Hint: their main antagonists are American!) I can tell you've never worked in an American agency......
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  At least one large bridge of recent construction in the US was designed with wayward ships in mind, the Ravenel Bridge in Charleston, SC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ravenel_Jr._Bridge The Ravenel Bridge is a cable-stayed design with two diamond-shaped towers, each 575 feet (175...
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  So, a few excerpts from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/26/us/baltimore-bridge-collapse Initially, officials feared that drivers were submerged in their cars in the Patapsco River. But the warning from the Dali, a Singapore-flagged vessel, gave officials enough time to stop traffic at both...
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  Annotated video; usual caveats apply. https://twitter.com/ChaudharyParvez/status/1772538539495809075...
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  I am surprised the cats played along Hard to say. Sol y Luna like to play under the dried laundry in the morning, but at night sleep on top of the bed until it gets cooler at dawn. Then...
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  Am I wrong to suspect it's a "False Flag" event? We'll have to see how the Kremlin plays out the event. Right now, it could be any of a number of things....
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  And what does it mean / portend if he gets the bond from the Saudi's or Russia? If Trump shows up in court with a bag containing $460e6 in cash, would there be any requirement for him to disclose where...
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  https://lite.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-464-million-dollar-bond/index.html ,/i> From which I excerpt, interestingly, An insurance broker, Gary Giulietti, who testified for Trump during the civil fraud trial, signed an affidavit stating that securing a bond in the full amount “is a practical impossibility.” Potential underwriters...
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  For those who remain interested in the "Havana Syndrome", a lengthy study of those affected was published in JAMA today. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2816533 Clinical, Biomarker, and Research Tests Among US Government Personnel and Their Family Members Involved in Anomalous Health Incidents Key...
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  Surely a fabulously successful businessman as fabulously wealthy as Mr. Trump has claimed to be could post the bond himself, no?...
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  so-called dative of disadvantage Thanks for that. The highly-inflected Indo-European languages contain a lot of weird stuff. The genitive-partative has been a favorite of mine, where the genitive can mean "a bit of". It is in standard use in French,...
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  I think Newfoundland was a major refueling stop for Europe-North American flights probably up to the early 1960s, i.e., pre non-stop trans Atlantic commercial jets. It's still used to a significant extent by planes with shorter legs, things like C-130J....
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  This was Test Flight 3 in the development program of a very new and different space launch vehicle. TF 1 was a bit of a disaster because of the launch pad bit, but TF 2 and TF 3 look to...
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  Post-300, but I thought it might interest some here: https://www.pulpmags.org/index.htm The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access archive and digital research initiative for the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential print culture forms: the all-fiction...
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  On a probably trivial level, in the USA the usual English-speaking name convention is GivenName [optional other given names] Patronymic. But a ton of USAians are of the Hispanic persuasion, where it's GivenName [optional other given names] Patronymic Matronymic. Of...
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  Copy editing means that the copy editor, using copy editing software, goes through the novel, and finds misspellings, inconsistencies (you call that whatsit here, and thatsit there), and all such. A random thought and idle musing, but I wonder if...
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  Not to mention the {W54} tritium initiator decaying. I could well be wrong, but I doubt the W54 incorporated tritium. In a single-stage implosion fission weapon, DT gas is used for "boosting" by providing extra neutrons. But the gas needs...
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  The US has just added two Californias to its domain, albeit under cold waters. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/extended-continental-shelf/...
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  A post-300 comment, but I think it's interesting. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/31/first-ecuador-now-greece-joe-biden-is-finding-more-and-more-countries-to-help-him-arm-ukraine/...
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  And alcohol? I have it on very good authority that in jails, prisoners have been known to put bread into Kool-aid (tm) and let it sit for a few days to get something slightly alcoholic. Water + yeast + sugar...
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  strategy was to launch a couple of missiles, dive down deep, run away and hide, rinse and repeat. It may be partly a military culture difference. The Russian one is enamored of salvo(*) fire in many situations, the US one...
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  And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nuclear_depth_charge_explodes_near_USS_Agerholm_(DD-826)_on_11_May_1962.jpg The early '60s were very exciting!...
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  The point to remember is that the last time an entire nuclear weapons system was tested from launch to detonation was August 1945. https://www.bntva.com/frigate-bird-the-polaris-missile-test-at-operation-dominic-christmas-island they can only order a second boomer strike if the ELF system survives, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACAMO (It's VLF,...