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pantone159

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  1. Yeah, it even has the Confederate States stars and bars flag. It is nauseating.
  2. I've been to La Gruta, it is definitely tourist friendly, but I liked it. The shade of the cave is nice after running around in the sun at the pyramids.
  3. Yes, sorry I misread and was not counting the ties that you assumed. Two ties for USA and we are indeed in.
  4. CR maxes out at 25. They can still beat USA, even if we win vs Panama, on enough goal differential. Panama maxes out at 24.
  5. If we win at home vs Panama on Sunday, we get at least the 4th place playoff. Then, if CR does not win on Sunday, that Panama win would get us in (3rd place or better). Even if CR does win on Sunday, we would be able to go to CR and lose and still make it, as long as the loss is not too bad, since we should be ahead on goal differential. Exactly how bad we could lose at CR and still qualify will not be known until the results of Sunday's games are in. E.g. if we beat Panama 1-0, and CR beats El Salvador 1-0, we would have a 7 goal lead on CR, so we could lose 0-3 at CR and still be in.
  6. That would wreck my strategy pretty thoroughly!
  7. Rookie mistake there. Once you knew the last 4 letters from guess 4, your job then was to find the possible first letters. So for guess 5 you want a word that uses as many of those letters as possible, and it is a total waste to repeat the letters you already know for sure. So you wasted 4 of your 5 possible tries for finding the last (first) letter.
  8. This is awesome. This is just a test image, pretty much the first real image that the telescope took. But it is already full of galaxies!
  9. Chlorine is used industrially on a large scale, in applications that have nothing to do with chemical weapons. For one example, in water treatment.
  10. It is not legal to melt US nickels, apparently. It is definitely possible to separate the copper and nickel, but I have no idea if it is economically worth it.
  11. Hey nickel prices are going through the roof now! I do have some old Canadian coins that are pure nickel, maybe I will get a chance to sell them for their metal content.
  12. Deuterium does not decay, it will last forever. Tritium does decay with a half-life of about 12 years, so it needs occasional replacement. Another issue, is that as the plutonium decays, it forms new elements and isotopes, and so the composition of the metal core changes over time. The changed composition does not work as well, and in particular I think is prone to premature detonation with loss of a lot of yield. But that would not likely keep the weapon from going off in some form, which is enough unfortunately.
  13. It seems to be an identification symbol for the invasion force. Most of the Russian vehicles have a white Z crudely painted on them. It is a little odd in that the Cyrillic alphabet does not use Z. But I don't think it is supposed to have any ideological or symbolic meaning, it is just an arbitrary identifier.
  14. This would be very difficult to do well. Any satellites would be moving over the ground very fast. (You can make satellites stationary on the ground, but you have to put them 20,000 miles up to do that, and anything that far away is useless for lasers or photos.) There would be the whole atmosphere to lase through which will deflect the laser somewhat. So it would be really hard to get a good targeting marker.
  15. Yep. 'Unlimited' actually means 'none guaranteed'. It would be a deal-breaker for me on accepting a job, and it it were imposed on me the ONLY option to consider is finding somewhere else to work.
  16. Yeah, Lindsay Graham needs to STFU. That is another line that we do not cross with a nuclear power, and we do not need Senators suggesting it.
  17. I suspect that this '40 mile long' convoy is gradually transforming into a 40 mile long obstacle course composed of broken down/wrecked/stalled vehicles. And since the mud is impassable for heavy vehicles, every single thing the Russians want to send towards Kyiv will need to make its way through these obstacles.
  18. Both of them. The scenes before the war started of forces building up in Belgorod was very much reminiscent of WW2. A surprise attack that you thought you could get away with, attacking from Belgorod, has been tried before. It worked poorly.
  19. Yeah, it is pretty likely Putin is yelling at SOMEBODY.
  20. Yes, that is where that rotten pile of refuse now lies. The cemetery has a self-guided tour, described by a brochure you can pick up there, that goes past many of the gravesites of famous people lying there. As of last Sep, the tour did not mention limbaugh. Possibly because his bloated corpse is a new addition, or possibly to prevent people from treating his gravesite as he deserves. But you can look up specific names from their website, so you ought to be able to find where in the cemetery it was buried. I did not try myself when I visited though. I went to pay my respects to William Clark (from Lewis and Clark), and it seemed like it would be disrespectful to Clark to take the opportunity to piss on limbaugh, so I let the corpse of that fat disgusting pig lie. At least that one time.
  21. Well, K2 has been descended on skis once. (There is more video footage around somewhere but this link has a little taste). Unfortunately you can't get up to 11 gmph cuz then you could not control yourself going over the edge of a cliff. Ski descent of K2
  22. Yeah. I go to the Scary HEB on South Congress, and it is picked so clean that it is about to be razed to the ground. I made one last attempt to get something from the bakery (the temp store lacks this) but I got chased away by the employees. I was kind of hoping to get the very last beer from there or something. And '2021 Hell Storm Flashback' and 'ERCOT mocked' are pretty much free squares.
  23. That Australian florin is 92.5% sterling silver, so you have that at least. Maybe the India ones have some silver, they look kind of silvery, but I am not sure.
  24. Also: Were any of them written on? It was pretty common for servicemen to save a note from each place they ended up, and get others e.g. in their unit to sign them. They would then get taped together into a long roll of notes. This was called a 'short shorter', as if you were out for drinks, and were challenged to show yours, and could not, then the drinks were on you. (Everybody else got a 'short snort' e.g. shot on your dime.) Occasionally these are signed by famous people, and those could be worth a lot. Mostly though, it is just extra history.
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