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The calcium carbonate in hard water precipitates out when you boil it, i.e. it turns solid.

Microplastics make for great nucleation points for the calcium carbonate to latch onto. So, the microplastics became super easy to filter out of the water (with some getting stuck to the bottom of the kettle in that white scale that you have to use vinegar to clean out.

Maine doesn't really have anyone "upstream".

From the looks of things, the IDF laid a trap for Palestinians.

The IDF promised food aid to the people they've been starving for the past few months (and keeping on the brink of starvation for the past 17 years)

The crowds gathered, waiting for the food aid to trickle out, when the IDF opened fire with vehicle mounted, heavy machine guns. Over 100 people are dead, and something like 750 were wounded.

Here's an article about it.

To be fair about most American's never leaving the country, it's a big country. You can spend literal days driving from one side to the other.

If you asked the average American, "What's the furthest you've traveled?" That distance will most likely exceed the average distance traveled by someone from, say, Germany.

The German could have been to half a dozen countries, and never gone outside of Continental Europe.

The sad thing about Oblivion is that there are in-game books in Morrowind and previous games that describe the empire as being in the middle of a bamboo jungle. The vibe comes off as the Roman Empire in South East Asia.

Instead we got generic high fantasy with the occasional guy wearing Roman armor.

Only as far as storyline and setting go. Other than that, it was an okay shooter.

Journalists are not lawyers...

Some actual lawyers have chimed in here and said that getting a judge, even one as blatantly biased as Cannon, removed from a case is basically impossible.

Turns out, there's a set legal definition on bias, and it's one of the hardest standards to meet.

All good points except the Ranked Choice.

It's somewhat of a poison pill.

On the surface, Ranked Choice looks like it would be a good idea, but when you break it down, it has some fundamental problems that are just as bad for democracy as First Past the Post.

This video is a great watch on the subject, it goes through all the problems in great detail, but the TLRW is thus, Ranked Choice is a flawed system, fatally so.

If you want to steal an election but make it look legit, Ranked Choice is your number one voting system. If you want viable third parties, Ranked Choice is not the voting system for you. It actually punishes viable third parties harder than FPtP.

A far better system in every way is STAR.

That line is named Roger Stone...

The man with a Nixon Tattoo on his back, and who was coordinating Jan 6th with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Nixon and Kissinger sabotaged the 1968 Paris Peace Talks so that Nixon would have an advantage in the election. He then massively increased the US presence in Vietnam, while allowing Kissinger free rein to order the carpet bombing of Cambodian villages. Often overruling generals that said there were no military targets in said Cambodian villages.

Nixon then started the War on Drugs because he saw hippies and black people as his biggest detractors, but because he knew he couldn't make it illegal to be a hippy or black, he went after the drugs traditionally favored by both groups, in effect, making it illegal to be a hippy or black.

There's so much more...

Done for, but also done to.

It's that "Done to" that requires the largest showing of human decency now. After all, one of the first ways to make up for the wrongs of the past is to stop committing more wrongs.

Sadly, we have two old men to choose from. One of which feels really bad about the wrongs he's committed, but still hasn't stopped. The other feels no remorse at all, ever, and will gleefully commit worse wrongs, all while quoting Hitler speeches.

Basic human decency is relevant to the electorate. Well, to just over half of the electorate. The rest of the electorate seems to think basic human decency is a weakness that should be scorned.

The North Sentinel Island Sentinelese are not cannibals. They just want nothing to do with anyone not born on the island.

Which is a good policy to have, seeing as how the British genocided the rest of the Andaman Islands. They even landed on North Sentinel, kidnapped a few old people and children, and then sent the survivors back as plague bearers. (this was in 1880)

The main one would be, in 53 years of Trek before Discovery, Spock never mentioned a sister.

Which is mostly of explained at the end of Season 2 of Discovery.

If you just noped out in Season 1, which a lot of the more conservative sort of trekie did, then you'd miss that.

I do like that they sort of explained the Klingon Empire was getting really into genetic experimentation. It kind of ties in the DS9 tribbles episode as seen here.

The simple "We do not discuss it with outsiders" line is great. Which actually makes me want to watch more DS9...

Anyway... some of the continuity issues are explained away in the second season? Sort of?

It's still my least watched trek. I've even watched more of the Animated Series than Discovery.

Conservatism was literally created as a backlash against the democratic movements of the US and France.

Conserving the power of the rich, to create a new nobility.

Monarchy was always the end game.

If that was your single take away from that book, you might want to reread it.

A sharp increase in Carbon-14 would be visible for a few thousand years.

The rest of the elements released by nuclear testing? Not so much. Cs-137, and Sr-90 both have half lives of about 30 years. That means that after about 300 years, they're both completely decayed into their daughter products.

Now, Cs-137 decays into Ba-137, which is stable. It's also naturally occurring as about 11% of all Barium.

Sr-90 decays to Yt-90, spends a few days as such and then decays to Zr-90, another naturally occurring isotope. Zr-90 is a bit over 50% of all naturally occurring Zirconium.

A lot of that will eventually make its way back down to earth.

Some will still be there, especially in higher orbits, but the majority will eventually see orbital decay.

Wouldn't that be alchemist jacket panic?