His reasoning was that a country after a disaster needs its economy to stabilise as rapidly as possible. Yes, he gets a good deal, but he’s also going at a time when local businesses need to trade, people need life to return to normal (as much as possible). Recovering from a tragedy can be helped by the show of faith and confidence of visitors who still want to experience your homeland and all it has to offer. That solidarity is the same concept Princess Diana displayed in her physical embracing of the AIDS community in a time of fear, ignorance, misinformation, and sadness. My take is that reaching out at a time when people feel alone and unwanted is always a kind gesture.

Not doing enough to keep it safe (from invasion). Here, we’re going to annexe Greenland to prove our point.

I can’t comprehend how this can in any way be construed as confusing… or unexpected, surprising, or unanticipated. The discourse vacuum is being filled by right wing misogynists.

Literally just be a vocal presence and the left will increase their ability to be recognised by 1,000%. If 10% of that results in a leftward political shift in the demographic - that will change lives.

Every 13 cells could be summing the total of multiple years of data. Eg 12 month + 1 total, rinse and repeat. Then summing just the total cells for each year. 💁

There’s your answer fish-bulb.

Lil Bobby… there really is an xkcd for everything!

Which is why the puppet master is having his marionette lift US sanctions on Russia.

I hate to say it, but maybe we should acknowledge the elephant in the room… and ask them how they’d wear it.

Techsmith - Snagit can do this (partially)Paid app, but has the feature to remove a strip of an image. No idea what the latest version does. The version I remember was years ago. Presumably has been enhanced since then…

Oh, I was just taking a breath - I hadn’t finished…)

It depends on your activity levels, metabolism, age etc. in general that amount of protein (assuming your diet is consistent) will keep your muscle mass constant and keep your brain functioning well (and other bodily functions - it’s not siloed in its purpose and basically impacts every aspect of your body’s functions . Your body’s processes are not solely reliant on protein but if you don’t have enough your neurotransmission and cognitive function will suffer. If you consume less protein than your base amount for a prolonged time, your body doesn’t have what it needs to maintain core functions and renew and maintain muscle mass. If you don’t consume enough calories overall you’ll find your body will consume its own muscles as a source of energy which is a dangerous metabolic process that can have lasting detrimental effects.

Basically over a short term or one day in a while, not consuming enough protein shouldn’t be an issue, but on a consistent or prolonged timeline, your body just doesn’t have what it needs to maintain itself and you are at risk of longer term impacts to your wellbeing in many facets of your basic bodily functions. I’ve read numbers like .75g per kg for women and .84g per kg for men daily, for basic maintenance of bodily condition. Obviously it isn’t One size fits All, but as a general jumping off point I think that’s a reasonable ballpark. Basically if you’re healthy, and assuming all other things being equal, those amounts should maintain your current state.

Limewire… downloading all your favourite songs, wait no… typing in names of any song you could think of in hopes you’d find it. Then you did find it and it turned out to be the same damn song you can’t stand with the file misnamed. A whole generation grew up confused about who sang their favourite songs, and found constant frustration in waiting like 12min (on a great day) for Smells Like Teen Spirit to download, only to find they got Weird Al Yankovich’s parody instead… like 4 times in a row from four different files. Ahhhh memories.

I had no idea a single symbol existed for an interrobang?!

Wow, lil bro standing up to big bro. Top shelf Aussies, no jelly-backs in sight.

Oh Jianyu, such wisdom in a soul so brand frickin new.

Oof not sure the 128 packs were even a thing in my day! Just fell down a rabbit hole on how the colours are all different now, as are the names, many of which are puns rather than descriptive (I agree with those that needed an update culturally - eg flesh tone, Indian red etc) just shows you can never go home again.

I just remembered something I haven’t thought about in a lifetime. The giant box of Crayola crayons I had as a kid - had a crappy plastic sharpener built into the box. It would tear the paper and take chunks out of the crayons but still, I used it.

Woo-wah-WaHah!

I think it’s a case of a Chinese artist who is accustomed to drawing people with traditionally Chinese facial features, having a crack at a turd wrapped in a sausage casing, rolled in cheese dust, and struggling to distinguish a different set of facial features and is bringing their own lens/technique to it.