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if i dont drink straight spirits i cant be an alcoholic guvna

The loss of ae was a disaster for languages

I don’t understand your comment. In the first line of the post above I said that there “there’s hundreds of miles of Russian coast between Sevastopol and Sochi”. Russia has a large coastline on the Black Sea without needing Crimea

Can you clarify?

“In this study we capture a cohort of libs and inspect their stomach contents to determine the impact of libs on the local ecosystem”

Public acceptance of trans people only when they open a small business in a historically underprivileged neighbourhood

Incorrect use of ambivalent too

according to polls almost no one in Taiwan wants China to take over.

Seems like only half the population want to move towards independence

I don’t know what you’re on about with the odd immigrant comments, less than 5 percent of the population are indigenous Taiwanese people

The leading theory for what causes people to be trans (or gay for that matter) is hormonal fluctuations at critical points of fetal development. So we are born this way.

The evidence for this is really poor, the entire field of the hormonal theory of sexuality (and gender) is garbage

There’s lots of good literature on transmedicalism

Anyway someone who subscribed to that theory would say that a micropenis would be consistent with low fetal testerone and this story would be readily believable by them - far more than a trans woman who was born with a macropenis.

Murmansk is north of St Petersburg and obviously there’s hundreds of miles of Russian coast between Sevastopol and Sochi, but also icebreakers exist?

You’re right about long term terminal navy brain, I found this interesting 30 year old article “The Historic Russian Drive for a Warm Water Port: Anatomy of a Geopolitical Myth”

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44642451

The article concludes

Afghanistan is also completely landlocked.

The US literally just had their Suez moment with the failure of Operation Prosperity Guardian

I was searching for any more information on the wording at the end and instead found this gem of a comment on why the USSR provided support to Afghanistan

I meant in relation to domestic policy, though Australia is closing that gap and exceeding NZ on neoliberal brutality on a couple of fronts

But you still have odd things like no capital gains tax in New Zealand and a very low maximum income tax rate

She came forward

She didn’t even come forward, she told her friend who taped the conversations

Tripp reported their conversations to literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, who advised her to secretly record them, which Tripp began doing in September 1997.

Goldberg also urged Tripp to take the tapes to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and bring them to the attention of people working on the Paula Jones case. In the fall of 1997, Goldberg began speaking to reporters (including Michael Isikoff of Newsweek) about the tapes.

In the Paula Jones case, Lewinsky had submitted an affidavit that denied any physical relationship with Clinton. In January 1998, she attempted to persuade Tripp to commit perjury in the Jones case.

Instead, Tripp gave the tapes to Starr, who was investigating the Whitewater controversy and other matters. Starr was now armed with evidence of Lewinsky’s admission of a physical relationship with Clinton, and he broadened the investigation to include Lewinsky and her possible perjury in the Jones case.

NZ went super hard on neoliberalism, much worse than Australia - they’ve done some more tokenism (now ripped up by Luxon) but the outcomes are still shit

Glass-ceramic is really the way to go - ridiculously resistant to thermal shock and I dropped a pyroceram pot from about 5 feet and it just bounced off the floor

Maybe they can pick up an x-ray scanner on AliExpress while they’re at it

smol horn

But for real, balancing is a skill that needs to be practised and regular exercise to strengthen your stabilising muscles is important to stay mobile in actual old age.

Common household cleaners can be deadly if combined and should be kept away from the vents of billionaire’s bunkers