Once there’s a Democratic speaker, that might be worth something. Right now…

There’s enough time in between now and then it’s possible the worst will have passed and we’ll be putting things back together.

Cheese is not mold, though. Blue cheese contains it, other kinds are milk solids and maybe some bacteria.

Edit: To answer the question: Soy can be turned into either bioplastic or food. Pure carbon can be diamonds or soot/coal/graphite. Electrical resistance can either be unwanted waste or the primary purpose of the circuit (like in a space heater).

Only if you’re American.

Hmm. It would avert the coming whatever over Greenland, but his successor might be equally fascist and not as dumb.

Yup, there’s a specific pattern for each time signature, and if you get really lost you can tell where in the measure you should be by them.

The patterns for cursed time signatures are equally cursed.

TBF sometimes the conductor is the original composer. Just obviously not usually, at least if it’s a very successful piece or they’re dead.

1. It’s like a semaphore type thing, the position of the baton shows where the beat is, and the conductor can signal other things as well like “emphasis here” or “quieter” with body language. An orchestra where everyone does their own thing wouldn’t sound very good.
2. It’s hard to get up and bow with certain instruments, there might not be space, and you couldn’t see past the first row very well anyway. I always assumed the bow by the conductor was on behalf of everyone.

I mean, there are TikTok trends which are basically the same thing. It’s just that you’re on Lemmy instead like a nerd.

(Yes, that was a self-own)

From what I’ve heard about Windows, it works more like the Simpsons “Barney coming up behind Moe” meme.

So, as it should be, Tux.

Pretty much. That wasn’t a complaint - it’s not sexy (it actually tends to liminal, with weird holdovers from multiple eras), but it works, and the healthcare received is seamless as soon as you’ve been identified as reasonably sick.

Or the old repurposed Tsarist ballrooms.

Very identical, sprawling lowrise construction, and not necessarily used as originally intended. I swear the pre-op area before my last surgery was originally a parking garage that they’d put up room dividers in. And just an absolute maze of them, backrooms style.

It’s cheap to build and maintain. It just gets called “institutional architecture” sometimes.

Some of the schools I went to were architecturally interesting, but you bet there was still a lot of cinderblock, steel and harsh lighting.

Hospitals in my Canadian province often have the same vibe, although they start getting into that communist architecture feeling a bit, too.

It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it’s hard to do education any other way.

Which I think just illustrates that take-home essays aren’t a great way to do things now, if they ever were.

Skill issue. Used an implied “of them”, which is idiomatic in the language, but forgot to update the value of “them” first. Without that, taking the first value is compliant with the standard.

/s, but only if we assume us programmers have common sense. ^/s

Double invasions, then. The first to take over, the second to make a point.

He’s in NATO, not so much that last one.

You know, I always assumed black people wouldn’t have the kamikaze-bugs-against-your face problem. If so, this is an ironic choice of template.

Namibia would be an Africa example, although the decolonisation period was probably as rocky as anywhere. India did alright after the same.

China had Mao problems, of course, but then Deng on and the rapid ascent to global power is also in the period considered.