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The ultimate goal is for Amazon Retail to become infrastructure. Bezos and his minions don’t want people to think of Amazon Retail as a shop; they want people to think of Amazon Retail as The Thing You Use To Buy Physical Things On The Internet. As Steam is to PC games, so Amazon want to be to physical things.
No, that’s what the edit button is for.
So they should have been called terral panels.
Same as nunchakus.
[https://acoup.blog/2019/06/07/collections-the-siege-of-gondor-part-v-just-flailing-about-flails/](The optimum is no chain at all).
A flail is a really bad weapon. The chain makes it difficult to control, puts you at great risk of hitting yourself, while not giving you any reach advantage. Real flails were medieval agricultural tools that were sometimes used as improvised weapons, but if you had access to an axe or spear, you would use that. If you have a big spiky ball of iron, it’s much more effective to put it at the end of a rigid wooden staff and whack people with it that way; in other words, a mace is strictly better.
That said, real chain-based weapons do have their uses. The lkusarigama is made by attaching a sickle to a wooden handle with a long chain. It is used to entangle and disarm your opponent, at which point you can close in and slash them with the sickle end. Since it involves swinging a sickle on the end of a long chain, it would never be used in pitched battle lest you hit your comrades, and in any case spears are more useful when armies clash. However, kusarigamas were quite handy in one-on-one combat; since they were easy to conceal and could be disguised as agricultural tools, they were primarily used by ninjas and city guards
So to give an answer to your question, if you’re going to use a chain-based weapon, the optimum length is long enough to completely wrap around somebody. And in that situation, you want a fairly light, small business end, not a big metal ball.
I am also in favour of hippie chicks using Linux.
And also hippie dudes, to be clear. And hippie whatever the non binary version of dudes is.
Boss:Ugh, fine, are we talking tropical, sidereal, or anomalistic years?
Irish is somewhat similar to how @jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de describes German.
-ín is a diminutive added to the end of a noun. So for example you can have:
Beag is the word that literally means small, and there are slightly different connotations. Buachaill beag is a boy who is small in size, while buachaillín is a term of either affection or derision depending on tone of voice. Bóithrín specifically means a winding country road with unkempt vegetation on the side, while a bóthair beag would be any small road.
Adjectives do not affect the words they are attached to. For example, the Irish word for red is dearg. Hence, a red rose is simply róise dearg, and a little red rose would be róisín dearg, though róisín is rarely used for flowers; it’s basically exclusively a name. If you’re talking about a flower, you’d be much more likely to say róise beag dearg, though róise dearg beag would also be correct.
Adjectives, however, can be altered by some adverbial prefixes, such as an- (very) and ró (too [much]). So, for example, very small is an-bheag, while too small is ró-bheag. (The BH there is pronounced like the English V. It can also be pronounced as W. I know the rule has to do with which vowels are adjacent, but I can’t articulate what the rule is).
The past tense of many verbs is formed by changing the initial letter. Cuir, (put), for example, becomes chuir (put [in the past]); CH here is pronounced the same as in German, which is like the sound J makes in Spanish. Negation also tends to change the first letter of a verb; for example, cuireann (puts) → ní chuireann (does not put).
Cheese isn’t a mould. It is a dairy product, whereas mould is a fungus. Some cheeses use fungi in production, such as Roquefort and Stilton, but the majority do not. Cheese is made by processing raw milk using various enzymes; if there is fungus in there, it is added towards the end of the process.
But for a real example: diamonds and graphite (pencil “lead”) are both pure carbon crystals, but one is hard and the other isn’t.
Do you have just a few minutes to discuss our lord and saviour Richard Stallman?
We mostly speak English in Ireland, so I’ll stick to Irish.
Róise (rowisha): Rose
Róisín (rowsheen): Little Rose
That’s all I’ve got.
The unification of the Italian peninsula by Rome. Because fuck the Roman Empire and fuck imperialism. (Also most of what you think you hate about Christianity is stuff the early Christians inherited from Roman culture).
And since they use ActivityPub, they make up one big meta-site!
I can definitely understand why he was driven to do this. Fire is much faster, more thorough, and has much less risk of ingesting toxic substances, but can easily get out of control and damage real art or people’s health. Teeth are the better tools here.
Smith. Also Murphy.
Philip II of Makedon, Qin Shi Huangdi, and the person who invented salted caramel.
Samaritans still live in Palestine, around Mount Gezirim. They consider themselves to be the faithful heirs of Moses, and that Jews are doing it wrong. Israel considers Samaritans to be spicy Jews for demographic purposes (let’s them slightly inflate the number of Jews living in East Palestine), but requires a Samaritan who wishes to marry a Jew to formally convert.
Judaea was never a name for Israel. It was the Roman name for Judah, a kingdom which stopped existing around 70AD when the Romans marched in, smashed the Second Temple, and folded Judaea into direct Roman control.
Zionists insist on referring to the West Bank (eastern Palestine) as “Judaea and Samaria” to assert that it’s a land for Jews (and Samaritans), denying the very existence of Palestine.
But Gidley can’t even get that right.
What the fuck kind of calendar has at least 22 months in it?
Fascism is a radically conservative ideology obsessed with promotion of (what the fascist sees as) traditional values and behaviours. That includes cisheteronormativity, as queerness isn’t traditional anywhere.