Heh, fortunately one pair of shoes in my shoe collection aren’t purple. They are a dark fuchsia. So I’m not gay.

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No no, not the comfy chair!

Did you get a raise?

Of course Donbas will join Russia with your scheme. All the Ukrainians have been displaced. It is nothing else but colonization of Ukraine by Russia.

To be fair, only the people who lived in Donbas until the little green men invaded 8 years ago would need to be asked in a referendum.

From what I can see from an EU perspective: The training you get to become an officer in the US seems to vary a lot between places. That explains lot of differences.

Also it’s quite short IMO. Here in Germany it takes 2 1/2 years to become a policeman, 6 Months of these as a trainee. And still we have a number of problems.

I was once calling the police because there was a guy screaming loudly in front of my apartment building.

He was not threatening, just really confused, was obviously looking for his home, I had the impression he was autistic or on some kind of spectrum and it was below -5C - cold enough that it’s really dangerous to fall asleep outside.

I called the police because I thought he just needed help and someone to look after him to take him home.

Yes, I do trust police in my country.

Not specifically for a rock, but that’s “roughly” how physical modeling synthesiers work for instruments.

Also there’s a youtube channel of a guy who builds an engine simulator to reproduce the sounds of 4-stroke and 2-stroke engines by applying fluid dynamic simulation of the gas flows in an engine.

It COULD conceivably be built for rock dropping as well, but I assume that’s not a thing people have yet put effort in.

Edit:

https://youtu.be/oUrYlZQVHvo?si=NPNYeKqr-MWkn7B8

I had to google, maybe some else wants to know: Galileo units is a (non-SI) measure of acceleration.

1 gal = 1 cm/s^2

100 gal = 1 m/s^2

So the 500-something gal from the article is roughly around half the acceleration of gravity we normally feel.

I know from own experience that a short tongue tie makes it harder to become a cunning linguist.

My tongue tie scrapes on the lower teeth when sticking my tongue out. (I think my situation is a lot better than yours) Still, it might be more comfortable to have a doctor make a small incision instead of scraping and tearing it when things get steamy.

Hellooooo Iceland.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/world/europe/iceland-volcano-eruption.html