My microwave's beeper only work in 10s increments. Meaning if I enter a cook time of 91 seconds, I get 91s at high power, 9s at low power, and a beep. If I listen for the power change, I have a 9 second window to open the door. It's perfect; no annoying beeping, and the timer reads 0:00 so it doesn't need to be cleared before reuse.
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This will turn into a MAGA own goal. NPR can get enough individual funding to stay on the air. They also survey listeners, and especially donors, about programming decisions. The more their donors skew left, the more their programming will. I listen to public radio and would label it as left leaning, but not left-wing. Partisan attacks like this may be the quickest way to drive it further left.
Most of my history / social studies classes, including AP history my senior year, focused on the United States. I think there was and is an AP World History, but my school didn't offer it. So we learned about Pearl Harbor, and D-Day, and Nagasaki, but not much of the Euro-centric lead-up to war.
One of my social studies classes, maybe 9th grade or so, spent a period watching The Wave, which might be the closest part of my formal education to addressing OP's question.
Supreme Court appears poised to rule for parents who objected to LGBTQ content in elementary schools
I wish someone would write an algebra book with as much power of indoctrination as these gay queer books are alleged to have.
Because it's called HIPAA, not HIPPA. The second P is the one that stands for privacy.
Fifty years ago, doctors would protect their patients by accidentally losing certain files if they didn't think the authorities had a good reason for seeing them. Under HIPAA, they're required to keep and maintain good records in case the government subpoenas them.
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It's popularity peaked before my time, but when Soeur Sourir (The Singing Nun) topped the charts with Dominique-nique-nique, it must have enjoyed significant secular popularity, perhaps in part because they didn't know French well enough to really understand the lyrics.
No. I mean, I could name a price, but it'd be unethical and borderline fraudulent to actually charge it knowing that better and more enthusiastic blowjobs can be found for so much less. I just wouldn't scam a customer like that. This attitude is why I can't work in sales.
Occasionally, maybe once per paragraph, misspell a word intensionally. Your family, knowing how carefully you used to profread your own writing, will notice this as abnormal behavior. Either you captors have already damaged your menial health or you are trying to conceal a message. Gards reading you letters before posting them may be more used to bad writing among their detaines and not suspect anything deeper. Your family might reply using the same code, both acknowledging receipt of your coded message, and perhaps including a key for a more secure one.
Scientific subjects like evolution are best taught at parochial schools
Not every student needs a rigorous scientific education. Not every parent will demand one. Not every public school will require or offer one. My claim is that Christians absolutely should. Likely other religions as well, I use Christian merely because it's what I'm most familiar with.
The mission of a public school is to graduate students intellectually fit to participate in civil society, which in my opinion does include at least a cursory understanding of evolution. At least enough to know how to look up the details later if needed. A Christian school must do similarly, but carries the additional objective of raising students confident in their faith, which requires a more detailed and rigorous treatment of the subject.
If you want your children to be able to defend their religious beliefs against scientific encroachment, then they better know exactly what science they're defending their faith from. Although evolution presents a credible alternative to a literal interpretation o
The anal sex sense of the term buggery is etymologically related to the Bulgarian people. I think because Christian Europeans named a deviant sex act after their heathen neighbors who allegedly practiced it, but it might have been the other way around.
That's strange, I thought you people would use kilometres for that? Anyway, I checked it out too and amazingly, she's also exactly 9 miles away from me, even though I'm in Tennessee.
Luigi Mangione tried, convicted of murder, and sentenced to life in prison. (I lose if no trial occurs in 2025, whether due to plea deals, procedural delays, or he gets Epsteined. I also lose if either NY or federal trial results in either acquittal or hung jury.)
That's an invaluable lesson.
I can make the Vulcan "live long and prosper" sign, but only with my left hand.
Local news is reporting the shooter and one victim are dead. The other victim was grazed in the arm and is in stable condition.
I don't know. James Upham is credited with inventing the Bellamy salute and may have been inspired by the Roman Empire, or more likely by contemporary portrayals of it. Anyway, by 1930, nobody was heiling Caesar that way, but the salute was in use by American schoolchildren. On that basis, I stand by the claim that the Nazis stole it, directly or indirectly, from either the US, the Roman Empire, or Mussolini's Italy. It's a kind of cultural appropriation I find more palatable when done by people who don't then proceed to violently annex most of Europe.
The Bellamy salute was invented in the United States for peaceful purposes. The Nazis stole it (as they did with the swastika and the term Aryan) and applied it to evil. As Nazi symbols, they became more strongly associated with the humanitarian atrocities of that regime than with their original meanings, to the extent that decent people hesitate to use them anymore.
Why do Olympic medalists bite their medals?
I understand that the bite test was used by frontier merchants as a low-tech way to assay gold, which worked because elemental gold was softer than some of the less valuable alloys that might otherwise be mistaken for gold.
But Olympic gold medals contain less than 10% gold. They're exactly the type of forgery the bite test is intended to root out. I've even seen athletes breaking their teeth on silver or bronze medals which makes even less sense to me.
Is it all just a big fuck you to the IOC, mocking them for being too cheap to spring for real gold?
YSK about the condensation pipe on your gas furnace
Because if it ices over, your furnace will stop working on the day1 you most needed it.
Flushing it out from the outside with a bucket of hot water and a pump similar to this one 2 will melt the ice and open up the drain and you will get heat again.
1 Day because if your freezing weather lasts much longer than that, your homebuilder probably engineered a house that could handle the cold. Unfortunately my house was built by southern rednecks who'd never heard of insulation.
2 Not an endorsement of any brand or retailer. Just make sure it has a long enough hose. That's what made it work better than some of the things I tried first.