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Skua

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  • If Paris were Los Angeles, the war in Ukraine would be near Memphis

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  • London being San Francisco is rather apt

  • A lone wolf

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  • Monograma

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  • If I google my own name one of the first results is a convicted paedophile

  • That is a coincidence

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  • Can anyone help me decipher the words in Those Who Ride With Giants' track The Knocking Lord?

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  • Not yet! But it is a Sunday, so I wouldn't necessarily expect one right away. I will be sure to update you if I do get one!

  • Roman Dodecahedron

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  • The ones in Germania have almost all been found in the Roman bits of Germania (i.e. east of the Rhine), and Roman Britain is the other big area for them, so it does seem like they're at least partially Roman. They seem to be called Gallo-Roman dodecahedrons a lot of the time because of the areas they're found in, though

  • Roman Dodecahedron

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  • Nice work! It's cool how crisp the forms are with such a sketchy style

    With total understanding that there are no actual solid explanations, which do you personally lean towards?

  • Can anyone help me decipher the words in Those Who Ride With Giants' track The Knocking Lord?

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  • Not a bad call actually. I will try that tomorrow

  • Cosmo's 7-month glow-up

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  • It is wild that those pics are of the same cat. What an incredible job they did getting him cleaned up and healthy

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  • "The EU was created in 1993. There were no wars in Europe since ww2 until then. Draw your own conclusions"

    okay lmao

    Your feeble downvoting of all my comments is fucking hilarious mate

    I'm downvoting you for lying and being a dickhead. I can also see you upvoting your own comments. Is there a bit of insecurity about upvotes there, maybe?

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  • Whether you actually believe it or not, you're arguing strenuously for it to advance your political position. It doesn't really matter if it's genuine, the effect is the same

    Also I've seen enough of your comments elsewhere to know that you hate the EU enough that it's a plausible position for you to try to take

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  • This is the most comically disingenuous thing I have ever seen. "Draw your own conclusions" fuckin sure lmao

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  • Maybe look at the date it took effect and actually formed the EU

    Also, to quote a mysterious someone from further up the thread: "The EU was created in 1993."

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  • I really hope you can recognise that 1992 is actually before 1993

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  • So, in other words, when you said, "There were no wars in Europe since ww2 until [1993]", you were in fact completely talking out your arse

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  • Right, so you're just objectively wrong and also the genocide conviction is indeed irrelevant.

    • Hungarian revolution: USSR invaded Hungary
    • Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Turkiye invaded Cyprus
    • Transnistria war: Russia invaded Moldova

    And to counter that, you're bringing up an example that also started before the EU was made

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  • ...okay? How is that relevant to your claim of there being no wars in Europe from 1945 to 1993?

  • ‘Hot sand for a cooler climate’: Has Finland finally found a solution to industrial heat emissions?

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  • Oh that's clever. I hope it lives up to the claimed cost savings, because if it does it's much more likely to see rapid adoption

  • smh

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  • I would guess it's essentially the same effect that causes our blue sky in the day and red sky at dawn and dusk. TL;DR if you already know what Rayleigh scattering is, skip to the last paragraph

    Okay so the reason that we can "see" the sky, as in it is lit up and has colour, is that sunlight (which is basically white) gets scattered when it passes through the atmosphere instead of just going straight through. This is an effect called Rayleigh scattering. Rayleigh scattering affects shorter wavelengths more than longer ones.

    If there is too much scattering of a wavelength, chances are that most of it will not make it to a given observer. It'll either just wind up going off into space or being absorbed by something. During daytime, our atmosphere does this just enough to get rid of most of the ultraviolet light. The next frequency down is blue, which gets scattered enough for us to see it.

    For the sky directly above you to appear blue to you, you need some of the blue wavelengths of light to have made it to that point above you and then get scattered there. Other wavelengths need to have either been absorbed already (like UV) or not scattered much yet (like red).

    During sunsets and sunrises, the light has to pass through much more atmosphere to get to us than it does during the day. As a result, the blue light starts to meet the same fate that UV does during the day, and longer wavelengths like yellow and red are the only ones that make it to us

    So, all that is to set up that Mars has a way thinner atmosphere which does way less scattering. The sky normally looks more or less the same colour as the ground because there's so little Rayleigh scattering happening that dust kicked up by the wind dominates the colour instead. However, same rules apply as on Earth - sunset means more scattering. It's just that on Mars, that goes from UV scattering to blue, instead of blue to red.