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“Are you in Hamas?”

Someone should submit all these comments as ‘community notes’.

Votes also make it very obvious when people react based on their wishful thinking — when a comment is factually true but is downvoted anyway, or vice versa. A good barometer of the sentiment in a community.

Moderation of foreign users is much easier for Russian platforms than for Western ones.

No such country. In Iraq and Afghanistan, countries other than the US participated by their own decisions without a NATO mandate.

I do snark for the art, and will live and die by it.

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‘There Will Be Blood’ depicts those early days quite graphically.

As it happens, China does have dual dating since 1912 (with some fluctuation), using the Gregorian calendar for most things except traditional holidays, which are celebrated according to the Chinese calendar.

The Gregorian calendar is generally one of the safer things to bet on, in this day. What could be that person’s thinking with the languages, however, that I don’t know.

TBF it’s kinda true for pistachios. The seed itself, excellent. But the thin brown skin that’s left in the shell? Outstanding. It seems to absorb all the salty flavor that’s bestowed upon the pistachios.

I sympathize with your brother’s sentiment, because I hate the texture of dried fruit, especially currants/raisins.

In the olden days oil reserves were discovered because oil was straight up seeping out of the ground.

What’s the defining good quality of cabbage when it comes to the texture? Because the watery taste is nothing particular to write home about. It’s rather the fact that it’s crunchy! And it stays crunchy when marinated! Unlike the spongy mess of boiled cabbage.

It also takes on the flavor from carrots and beets, turning the whole thing into delicious sour-sweet crunchy cocktail.

I once ate some canned olives that smelled like something gasoline-adjacent. Those were the most outstandingly tasty olives I’ve ever had, by far.

Boiling cabbage is just ruining the product. The only good way to prepare cabbage is to marinate it with vinegar, shredded carrots and beets, optionally adding some coriander.

TBF I for one want to code to install an app. By which I mean use Ansible.

Wine has some compatibility differences between its versions — I’ve had to downgrade it before because the newer version didn’t work with the app I wanted. So, if you’re ever in the mood to try again, you could check out an older version, and perhaps try launching a simpler app like notepad which is iirc supplied with Wine.

Also, Wine launched from the command line, with the exe as the parameter, usually prints a lot of stuff some of which may say what libraries weren’t found, and winetricks allows installing those libraries easily (if it’s still around, I haven’t done this in a while). Typically something like ‘MS C++ redistributables’ or the .NET framework is necessary.

Thanks again! This is very comprehensive and much more comprehensible.

Thanks, but as a non-quite-EU person I’d like you to know I understood your comment fine until a bit after the second comma in the second sentence, following which my grokking declined sharply to just the surface level when met with a bunch of peculiar terms forming a mighty wall of obstruction to my comprehending.