Yeah, that’s what coal is IIRC.

The “gunk” is just mineral deposits, right?

Fascinating, I didn’t realize the Roman Catholic Church didn’t have deaconesses. The Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches do, and several Protestant denominations do.

Ah, right, okay, reading the Wikipedia page, the presence of deaconesses fell off when the church became institutionalized under Constantine and started removing women from leadership roles. Just went downhill from there.

Good job, Roman Catholic Church. Ignore your own holy text which contains examples of deaconesses in favor of a patriarchal system that was mostly enforced after the Roman government took an interest in the church. 🙄

Not a surprise, but cutting 13 percentage points out of a lead is pretty incredible.

Sure, I get what you’re saying. You can watch the video of their meeting, it’s online. I haven’t watched it myself but I have seen writeups about it.

Yeah. When someone told me, “If you agree to pay a fee, for three years they won’t give you a patdown every time you fly because you won’t have to use the scanner that thinks fat people are smugglers, and you won’t have to take your shoes off” my first thought was “fuck yes” and my second thought was “isn’t that the definition of racketeering?”

(Also my very first time using TSA Precheck I was flagged for “random screening” and TSA got one last revenge patdown in. 🙄)

Yep. I think other manufacturers do this with multi-material units, too. It’s a really clever way to handle the issue and one of my favorite features of the AMS. Spool running low? Just throw a second one on there, tell the printer they’re the same material, and bam. Wake up the next morning to an empty spool and a completed print.

That’s the face of someone with the instincts to be ingratiating and the dementia required to forget who he’s supposed to hate.

The man who said Chuck Schumer came to meet him and brought “a very nice man,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a man he meets with regularly but whom he had completely forgotten.

It feels like they’ve been saying the REAL ID would be required for years, and keep pushing it back. Now they’re like, “We’re so serious you guys. It’s for national security. No bad actor will pay $45.”

A man who left Rockstar five years before they fired people for discussing unionizing?

Remember, in A New Hope the stormtroopers on the Death Star are missing on purpose. They want to put up a token resistance to let the gang escape with the tracker onboard.

How much cough medicine was involved in the creation of this video?

Guten Morgen Klaus.

But what if instead of adding a third dimension by going UP, you add a third dimension by going FORWARD. Like a computer screen, X and Y coordinates are side-to-side and up-and-down. If you made a volumetric display by adding a third dimension to that, Y would be up and Z would be forward.

I usually think of Z as up, because that’s how stuff based on the physical world usually works. But I can understand why some think of it with Y as up.

Oof. Worst time of the year to lose half your singing range if you’re a choral singer. Unless you want to get out of all the holiday concerts. 😂

Seriously though, I’m sorry to hear that. The first time I had COVID it did a number on my voice. I’m not convinced I’ve ever completely recovered, because singing isn’t as easy as I remember it being. I require more breath support than I used to, and sometimes struggle to maintain intonation on surprising notes. Like, not low or high in my range, notes that should be easy.

But it’s better now than it was right after COVID. Much better. I hope yours improves!

OP said it was in a conference room. Good catch!

Ah collective punishment. We’re just so used to violating the Geneva conventions now we do it for fun!

My guess is part of what’s throwing that statistic off is the relatively short journeys of most ferries.

Maybe per hours of travel would be better? It would also make airplanes less of an outlier.

Airplanes should then be split to “general aviation” and “commercial aviation” to assuage people’s fears. General aviation is a lot riskier than flying commercial.

Holy shit.