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Thanks, I was reading this as pertaining to subsequent children, not stages, and was confused

I don't have a specific recommendation, but I believe the key words to search for these days are "Digital Audio Player".

I've been following the open hardware Tangara for a while, but they're between production runs right now so you can't buy from them (you might be able to build your own though, the design is all there)

As a heads up, like so many other technologies the middle has fallen out of the market thanks to the proliferation of smart phones. You'll be paying a lot for anything decent from what I've seen

One problem is many devices don't have a proper BMS integrated into the charging circuit, that will cut power before the battery is below a critical threshold. Li-ion cells start to have problems below 3V, and often suffer permanent damage below 2.5V.

This is a problem with rechargeable AAs too, though less common maybe? Many kids toys and cheap decorative lights will drain a AA to dead in my experience. I've had to reintroduce disposable batteries with the rule "no microcontroller, no rechargeable"

This one would not be out of place as an opinion article in a regular paper.

First term is free, payment is for a permanent position

My CamelBak is. From looking at them on this page, KleanKanteen advertises it too.

I can hear this picture

Any chance of a non Instagram link to the offending cartoon?

Where can I read it?

Or a Sky News anchor trying to spark conflict

At the risk of being trite:

What's the second crank for?

The article title (now?) has a second line which IMO is important to include in the headline. The whole title is currently:

Trump Named Delcy Rodríguez Venezuela’s Interim President and a US Partner in Governing the Country
Two Hours Later, She Publicly Rejected Washington, Called It an Aggressor, and Reaffirmed Loyalty to Nicolás Maduro

From the article:

US president Donald Trump said that Delcy Rodriguez had been sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and had agreed to act in partnership with Washington—effectively allowing the United States to run the country.
“In essence, she is prepared to do what we believe is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” Trump said.
Less than two hours later, Rodriguez, who had previously served as vice-president under Nicolas Maduro, delivered a televised address to Venezuelans in which she made clear that she regarded the United States as an illegal occupier whose actions must be rejected.
“We are determined to be free,” she said. “What is being done to Venezuela is barbarism.”

This article I came across convincingly disputes the idea that JIS is meaningfully different from other cross head standards. I do not have access to the standards myself to corroborate.

Wikipedia disputes the claim of cam out being deliberate

The design is often criticized for its tendency to cam out at lower torque levels than other "cross head" designs. There has long been a popular belief that this was a deliberate feature of the design, to assemble aluminium aircraft without overtightening the fasteners.[15]: 85 [16] There is no good evidence for this suggestion, and the property is not mentioned in the original patents.[17]

Weird list, appears to include both antisemitic and anti Zionist events, and even includes the fake caravan bomb?

In case you're unaware, he runs an excellent Australian economics podcast called Dollars and Sense.