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The Russian skating federation does take doping seriously, they put a lot of effort into doing it and trying to hide it.

They've even made participation in doping schemes mandatory for all Russian athletes.

It's a well known joke for armchair archeologists.

For the people who work in the field, they know damn well that often times, "ritual object" is, in fact, the correct answer.

Hell, there are practical tools that were also ritual objects. Because humans can turn everything into part of a religion.

Fun fact for those who don't know. You can forge metal with a wood fire if you have forced air.

There are also ways to build a clay oven so that it has a natural updraft, giving it that forced air. It's actually how people used to fire pottery.

Other than that, you can also use charcoal, which burns hotter with forced air.

Also, a hairdryer puts out enough air to forge with unless you're running a ribbon burner set-up. But if you are, you likely know that already.

A fellow hobbyist blacksmith

Edit to add a word.

Republican AGs have already said they'll use KOSA to block anything trans related, so maybe don't bring that up when talking to Republican senators.

I knew that... I just typed the opposite for some reason.

Yeah, cardinal vs ordinal. Ordinal results in two parties. (or two major parties with some hanger-ons that align closely)

No. Because of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.

Any ranked voting method will tend to prefer two parties with varying levels of strength.

Ordinal voting systems, on the other hand, are immune to Arrow's Theorem, or rather it doesn't apply to them. I like STAR as an option. It seems to be the best single winner voting system available. There are also multi-winner versions that are better than any other multi-winner system currently in use, but that's its own can of worms.

"Yet again" implies that he just did it again, not that he did it last year.

"A little... light refreshment?"

High on the list because he's done it before. There have been multiple, credible rape allegations against him since the 80s.

Yes and no.

When new episodes are aired, they're broken up into chunks and are uploaded to YouTube on the Daily Show channel. This includes the opening comments, any special pieces, and guest interviews.

It actually gets a bit annoying sometimes. There can be as many as four videos released in a day, and then you add in the shorts and internet exclusive rehash episodes...

To be fair, they've also earned that hatred. Several times over.

He was doing his own thing until Apple killed his show over fears that he would talk about China.

Parts of the episode are uploaded to YouTube by Comedy Central.

Large portions of the show, actually.

I hate to break it to you, but ritual and religion have been a thing forever.

Walk into most homes today, and you'll find a bunch of ritual objects. Crosses, Rosary Beads, Menorahs, and dozens of other every day objects that you'd never think twice about.

The ancient world had even more such objects.

A fun example that I can think of off the top of my head is the demon trapping bowl. It was common in parts of the Middle East, and how it worked is you'd write a bunch of incantations on the inside of the bowl in a spiral down to the center, and then bury it upside down under the main entrance to your home.

That's clearly a ritual object. It serves no other purpose.

These dodecahedra might be the same. After all, there are 12 zodiac and playing with the meaning of the zodiac was quite popular in the Roman world at various times.

The knitting technique required to make gloves with that weren't invented until the 15th or 16th century. And no examples of knit gloves older than that have ever been found.

Also, many of these dodecahedrons don't have hollow centers, which is absolutely required for knitting with them.

The Romans had dice that would roll better.

They seem to have favored d20 and d6, but other dice have also been found.

But I would bring my own to a Roman game of D&D, because the Romans also tended to use lopsided dice (They believed in fate rather than luck, so hand waved away loaded dice)

An item that only the absolute best blacksmiths or metalworkers could make.

Sounds valuable.

Brother printers are great. If only because they don't add all the pointless bullshit add-on "features" that everyone else does.

Brother printers, they're just printers. Nothing more, nothing less.

They also take third party ink.

All of that info is in the link.

Or in this link.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-11-30/rust-shooting-ammunition-search-warrant-pdq-alec-baldwin

Starline is not involved here. Every dummy round used in Hollywood has the Starline logo, but that's just because they make the brass that everyone uses to make dummy rounds.

No, the company that fucked up before the armorer fucked up was PDQ Arm & Prop, LLC. They sent out the co-mingled rounds.

A search warrant executed in 2021 found live rounds mixed into their supply of dummy rounds.

Did you read the link?

It walks through how some Starline Bass casings were loaded with live ammo, and then ended up on a film set where there should not have been any live ammo at all.

As to the armorer, yes, she was incompetent. That's the whole point here. The hiring director (who was not Baldwin) took a chance on someone who had past safety issues on her only other film, because she was the daughter of a well respected armorer.

She didn't know how to check the bullets to see if they were dummy rounds (completely fake, but realistic looking) or live rounds.

I know the article says blanks, but from everything I've found online, there weren't even blanks on the set of Rust. Just dummy rounds, and a few live rounds that snuck in via a coffee can full of co-mingled rounds from a previous film.