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  • House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails

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  • They are, but clouds disproportionately reflect IR. Basically the energy comes in as a mix of high, medium and low energy light. The earth re-radiates as low energy IR. Clouds trap this keeping the warmth (and energy) in.

    Clouds and CO2 act in a similar way.

  • Leave your home offices at home: Starbucks draws the line at desktops

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  • I knew someone who used to monitor the transmission of porn (TV) channels. Apparently, it was the most boring, soul crushing experience. You lose all interest by about day 3. It also messes with your own love life.

  • Long Island man wearing 9kg-metal necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine

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  • Apparently the chains started when he was a bouncer. Sometimes people would lose them, while getting kicked out. He would wear them, so that had to come and ask him politely for them. His collection built when they were either too scared, or too egotistical to ask for them back.

  • Mattel introduces its first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes

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  • Kids can also be amazing and caring. They just need the context and understanding of what is going on. Toys like this help a lot in that regard.

  • Mattel introduces its first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes

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  • It's a love hate situation. For a lot of children, they will use play to process and understand things. E.g. "Helping" a Barbie with the problems helps them understand why their brother gets special treatment.

    I've seen my daughter playing "classroom" with her teddies. It helps her understand better how school works, and what would be acceptable or not.

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    ‘I don’t want this exchange anymore’ After their release, Russian POWs are being sent back to war instead of home to their families — Meduza

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  • For most governments it's enlightened self interest. Completely screwing over their population for short term gain is akin to cutting off your feet to save money on shoes.

  • Holidaymaker's 'nightmare' Corfu hotel stay where there was 'no English food'

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  • Baked beans are definitely a VERY British thing, along with fry up in general.

    Scotch eggs are Scottish in origin, I believe. I bundle them in with British, though a good chunk of Scotland would disagree. Definitely good, either way. Kippers and haggis are also Scottish/northern England traditionally.

    As for Greggs... I personally consider them an example of how British food got screwed over by mass production. I've been disappointed most times I've brought from them. I know a lot of people swear by them however.

    As for Yorkshire pudding. It's a case of a good one is absolutely amazing, while an average one is just meh. It also needs a good gravy to dip it in. Hence why it goes so well with a roast.

  • Holidaymaker's 'nightmare' Corfu hotel stay where there was 'no English food'

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  • Most of the more obvious ones are intended as travel food. Wrap something tasty, nutritious, or expensive in a semi disposable, edible wrapper. It's a basic stable of most of mankind. England tended to use pastry or batter for this. Battered fish and burgers are other examples. Other as regions might use leaves for the same job.

    If it was in a good state, you could eat it. If it wasn't, then you could still eat the good bit inside. The crust of a Cornish pasty is intended to be thrown away. Coal miners could take them down the mine, and eat them without washing their hands.

    Other dishes are a thing. They tended to be more family orientated however. The recipes wandered over time, with less stable traditional dishes. Bangers and mash, or a ploughman's would fall into this sort of category.

  • Holidaymaker's 'nightmare' Corfu hotel stay where there was 'no English food'

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  • There's 3 sort of sections to British food.

    • Old staples, things like stews, pies, roasts etc. We exported most of these, with the empire. They are also shared a lot with Europe, making them even more ubiquitous.

    • Local specialities. Local traditional dishes, e.g. Yorkshire puddings, Cornish pasties, or Eccles cakes. These were town or region specific. Some have spread, others are still hyper local.

    • Imported. Mostly from the empire days. We tended to "discover" spices and flavours. When they came back, they were often reimagined. E.g. the curry was a Scottish invention, using Indian spices. We mostly dump all the related dishes under a label of the country we stole the flavours from. E.g. Chinese food tastes nothing like what they eat in China.

    Basically, there is a lot of really good British food about. We also set the baseline for a lot of the comparisons, making us look bland by comparison. The London restaurant industry also does a complete number on tourists, making us look even worse.

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    Moscow hit by massive drone raid for second night ahead of Putin’s Victory Day parade

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  • Hopefully they will be careful. A single, well documented attack on civilians would justify a LOT of retaliatory strikes on Ukraine civilians (in Russian eyes).

    Taking out the troops/equipment during the parade, without hitting civilians, that would send a message.

  • Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Himself Dressed as the Pope

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  • It's a terrifying mix of a Gish gallop (a stampede of lies and half truths, delivered so fast they can't be countered) and razzle dazzle (camouflage via a swarm of irrelevant or counter intuitive points).

    It's terrifyingly effective, and very difficult to counter.