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How can there not be rail traffic in Libya? I mean, there has to be some kind of line that runs along the southern rim of the Pacific.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Libya

Hmm. Apparently the map is right.

There have been no operational railways in Libya since 1965, but various lines existed in the past. Since 1998, plans for an extensive system have been developed,[1] but work has largely halted since the outbreak of the First Libyan Civil War in 2011.

kagis for an Africa rail map

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzewtbml8t4481.jpg

It looks like there's rail along the south Mediterranean rim except through Libya. Doesn't even detour south around Libya. I guess one switches cargo to ship or truck or something.

Doesn't get taken up into the body, goes from the mouth out the rear.

Other than moderation in calories and getting some bare minimums of nutrients that probably isn't an issue for most people, I think that one can't really go very far wrong.

I personally try to eat more protein/fat and fewer carbs than I once did, and for the same reason you mentioned -- I feel like a lot of carbs make me hungrier later. But, hey, as long as you can keep moderation with carbs, probably fine too.

Setting aside anything specific to the mechanism in that vehicle, I suppose that keeping one of those window-breaker tools in the dash might have been a good idea, for a car of any sort.

That being said, I don't keep one in my car.

kagis

https://forward.com/fast-forward/675325/pete-hegseth-tattoos-christian-crusades-trump/

One of Hegseth’s most prominent tattoos is a large Jerusalem cross on his chest, a symbol featuring a large cross potent with smaller Greek crosses in each of its four quadrants. The symbol was used in the Crusades and represented the Kingdom of Jerusalem that the Crusaders established.

Hegseth also has “Deus Vult,” Latin for “God wills it,” tattooed on his bicep. The phrase was used as a rallying cry for the First Crusade in 1096. It is also the closing sentence of Hegseth’s 2020 book, titled “American Crusade.”

Hegseth also has a cross and sword tattooed on his arm, which he says represents a New Testament verse. The verse, Matthew 10:34, reads, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

He later added “Yeshua,” or Jesus in Hebrew, under the sword. Hegseth told the site Media Ink in a 2020 interview that the tattoo was Jesus’ Hebrew name, which he mistakenly said was “Yehweh,” a Biblical spelling of God’s name. He told Media Ink that he got the tattoo while in Bethlehem, Jesus’ birthplace, which is located in the present-day West Bank, where he was reporting for Fox Nation.

“Israel, Christianity and my faith are things I care deeply about,” Hegseth told Media Ink.

Hegseth opposes the two-state solution and supports exclusive Israeli sovereignty in the Holy Land. He has also said the idea of rebuilding the biblical Temple on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is a “miracle” that could happen in our lifetimes. The First and Second Temples stood on a site where the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, now stands.

Hegseth expressed these views in a 2018 speech delivered in Jerusalem at a conference organized by the right-wing Israel National News, also known as Arutz Sheva.

The speech laid out a vision of a world beset by a growing darkness that can only be saved by the United States, Israel and fellow “free people” from other countries.

The amusing thing is that OP's article didn't even get to him because it was talking about other nominations.

I don't know the answer, but I'd guess that lubricants might be a factor.

Nigeria is not "the West"

I didn't say it was. I'm just indicating wherevthe floor is.

Age of consent to sex, not marriage.

https://www.ageofconsent.net/world

According to this, it looks like the closest country to this age of consent is Nigeria, at 11.

If you want age of marriage, in the US, looks like four states will let you marry at any age, but require special conditions like parental approval or court approval:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States

California, Utah, Oklahoma, and Mississippi.

At the time of the K-T extinction, we looked like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgatorius

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event,[a] also known as the K–T extinction,[b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth[2][3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. Most other tetrapods weighing more than 25 kg (55 lb) also became extinct, with the exception of some ectothermic species such as sea turtles and crocodilians.[4]

Omnivores, insectivores, and carrion-eaters survived the extinction event, perhaps because of the increased availability of their food sources. Neither strictly herbivorous nor strictly carnivorous mammals seem to have survived. Rather, the surviving mammals and birds fed on insects, worms, and snails, which in turn fed on detritus (dead plant and animal matter)

Luckily, great-grandaddy squirrel-critter was a survivor and had a taste for insects:

It is thought to have been rat-sized (6 in (15 cm) long and 1.3 ounces (about 37 grams)) and a diurnal insectivore, which burrowed through small holes in the ground.

Strictly speaking, I believe that it's Creative Commons rather than public domain. Pretty similar, but IIRC it addresses some differences in European law.

Man, we live in a world which probably has immediate and ready access to nude images of any particular sort one might desire -- and we're getting to the point that computers can synthesize stuff that doesn't even exist -- and you're committing crimes and risking your job to get a low-quality cell phone picture of a cell phone screen of an amateur nude photo?

EDIT: And randomly checking the first guy, he's apparently married with four kids:

https://notes.mshp.dps.mo.gov/si01/si01p001.nsf/035631d21d12b3ca8625729800536894/25cc708fab2ad89c8625871e0052e782?OpenDocument

Trooper David L. McKnight, of Sikeston, Missouri, has been assigned to Zone 7, which serves the citizens of Mississippi, New Madrid and Scott counties. Trooper McKnight is a graduate of Scott County Central High School in Sikeston, Missouri. Prior to joining the Patrol, he worked as a patrol officer for the Sikeston Department of Public Safety. He is married to Natalie (Cooper) McKnight and has four children.

Probably not going to do wonders for your marriage, either.

If that email is actually from Logitech, it probably has some way to unsubscribe. Might have added you for some nonsense reason like a warranty registration, but I've never hit problems with a reputable company not providing a way to unsubscribe.

The random scam stuff...yeah, probably can't do much about that.

One possibility I've wondered about is whether, someday, email shifts to a whitelist-based system. I mean, historically we've always let people be contacted as long as they know someone's physical address or phone number or email address, and so databases of those have value -- they become keys to reach people. But we could simply have some sort of easy way to authorize people and block everyone else. In a highly-connected world, that might be a more reasonable way to do things.