can bring a quart zip lock bag stuffed to brim with nips (50ml bottles of booze) through TSA security. While you are technically not allowed to drink them on the plane absolutely nobody gives a shit as long as you are not an idiot about it.
bingo! for long-haul flights (>10hrs) i'd even bring two zip locks. Relax and fall asleep right during takeoff while everyone else has to wait for the stupid cart forever.
And you can also bring an empty water bottle that there are often stations setup for the purpose of filling next to water fountains.
Mind you, I'm annoyed at the liquids thing given I used to routinely bring bottles of wine or a local liqueur home in carry-on. And I can't any longer.
I recall when those guys in the UK (?) had their plan to explode a plane by mixing some volatile chemicals in the plane toilet. IIRC this kicked off the whole no liquids requirements. At the time I remember reading an article by a chemist on the chances of actually pulling off what they wee planning to do, and it was comical. To not just make a giant poof that mainly singed off some hair they needed to carefully mix the liquids in an ice bath for about 1h (without anyone noticing) and every little shake could potentially mess up the whole thing.
He then went on to what he considered dangerous and mentioned a couple of powders which you can easily bring on board which are much more devastating.
>He then went on to what he considered dangerous and mentioned a couple of powders which you can easily bring on board which are much more devastating.
So this is why we also can't bring own cocaine on board in addition to not having own booze. What a shame
I think the point of it was that our enemies had figured out that the way to destroy America wasn't to kill our leaders, but rather to convince us that our enemies were inside the country, and then watch us tear each other apart.
> Red and green look quite different to me! However, I cannot for the life of me spot my dog’s red frisbee in green grass, or pick out a red character among a bunch of green ones without looking at each character.
This is basically a textbook description of standard red green colorblindness. Whenever you find yourself doubting whether you actually are red/green colorblind, just go strawberry picking with friends.
Yep. Whenever I say I am colourblind, people show me a tree and ask "what color is it?". And I have to explain that I know what red/green is.
An example I give is red flowers in green grass: I may not see the flowers at all unless I go very close.
Another one is while climbing indoors: say there is a purple route next to a blue one. Some handles I will clearly classify as blue, some clearly as purple, and some in the middle I won't be able to classify. But non-colourblind people will clearly be able to classify them all.
> Whenever you find yourself doubting whether you actually are red/green colorblind, just go strawberry picking with friends.
I'm extremely bad at picking fruit in our garden. I'll go to pick the raspberries, strawberries, or peppers and only find a few. Then my wife will go out and find several times my haul from the same plants.
I'm pretty sure it's mostly tree rings that they use to calibrate it since they are pretty much perfect for it as each ring absorbs carbon for a single year and then stops so you get a two for one of basically a stack of samples each for a different year covering a broad span of time.
In the early days of radiocarbon dating these were pretty much the exclusive source of calibration curves (since the coverage is so comprehensive). There were many problems encountered through this that led us to using a combination of different heuristics.
Primary among those considerations was that the dendrochronology record is of pretty limited timeframes -- we have very few samples going back more than a couple of hundred years.
And the study of carbon-14/12 ratios in dendrochronology led to deeper questions: there appears to be a significant geographic variation; the change in c14/12 ratio is non-monotonic (i.e. there are times of sufficiently increased historical C14 that samples from that era are indistinguishable from samples in a later era).
This has led to a ton of research into calibration methodologies, leaving many questions that are still open today.
Dendrochronology (dating cut trees via counting rings/size/ratios) has its own subjective interpretations, and different databases that don't always line up.
New York was weirdly built without alleys so there is a legitimate issue of where do you put the bins when it's not trash day that almost every other city doesn't have
Well, they find the space to store their trash right now. So they definitely have enough space. The amount of trash would presumably roughly be the same before and after this change.
Eg they could sacrifice some street parking spots for the bins.
They could even charge the bins the same amount of money they charge for street parking (and fold these costs into the costs for trash disposal they charge trash producers).
> Eg they could sacrifice some street parking spots for the bins.
Taking away curb parking is one of the most heated political issues in the US.
It's controversial enough to take away parking to make the road safer for pedestrians and other drivers (new daylighting law in SF), so I can't imagine how hard it would be to do it for some trash cans.
Maybe, maybe not. If you are on a bandwidth limited connection and you have a bunch of NPM packages to install, 5% of an hour is a few minutes saved. It's likely more than that because long-transfers often need to be restarted.
One of the features the phones had was that they could be remotely deleted and were locked down to prevent other apps on them. So an off the shelf iphone with signal is going to be vulnerable to having the device itself hacked via text message, bluetooth, or something else in a way the Sky ECC phones theoretically can't be, so it's not necessarily a slam dunk.
A cheap netbook from a no-name Chinese OEM, running weird software you've never heard of named 'TAILS' which doesn't auto-update or anything, and which the makers say is very secure.
A cheap phone from a no-name Chinese OEM, running weird software you've never heard of named 'Sky ECC' which doesn't auto-update or anything, and which the makers say is very secure.
You've got to be fairly knowledgeable to appraise the two options correctly.
The whole point is that those things are totally irreverent if you can't actually get somebody into the corps without going through months of bullshit paperwork over minor injuries from years ago.
The phase "Tankie" was coined to describe the communists who still supported the USSR after it deployed tanks to put down the Hungarian revolution, the left wing opposition to aid to Ukraine is generally them (well them and the peace at any cost crowd). Though the tankie logic has additional steps to take into account Russia not being communist, you see NATO opposed communism, and Putin's Russia also opposes NATO thus Putin's Russia is in fact good.
There are current pictures of active Russian military vehicles bearing the USSR-style hammer and sickle, and there are reportedly older Russians who still idolize Stalin—who is responsible for over 20 million deaths (accountings vary).
Economically, of course, Russia is no longer communist, but some would argue (pedantically) that it technically never was. At any rate, Russia never completely disavowed the previous system, and Putin has tried to rehabilitate his country's previous regimes, attributing their failures to Western treachery. So arguably their flavor of "Communism" was never fully erased and veins of it still persist in their society.
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