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as most people found out too late

rip Nadezhda Alliluyeva

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his structure like nose, jawline, chin, brow, hair, facial hair, etc. all give male model, but also he was 5'4" and had skin like Danny Trejo

1911 Tsarist Russia mugshot photo of a young Joseph Stalin, showing extensive scarring on his cheeks and face from smallpox.

Stalin had good features but also really bad facial scarring from smallpox. He benefits a lot from blurry photography and then altering photos after he gained power. You can see it better in this mugshot from 1911.

literally screaming and gesticulating at my wife naming different disabled artists from history, she is shushing me to stop me from waking neighbors

"HOMER WAS BLIND! Goddammit!"

and blamed it on an anonymous junior staffer

IMO some important guys were probably safe while the coverup held but now have to worry about social blowback, so they're testing new lines of defense. The Quillette lady is aggressively pushing "NOTHING TO SEE HERE" while McArdle is checking if the "ephebophila isn't pedophilia" dodge is viable.

Yeah, Gannett Decay slowly killed my regional daily over the last 25 years or so. I distinctly remember a few years ago when my parents told me they finally cancelled the delivery subscription they'd had since the 1970s. Through the early 2000s it was one of the best regionals in the country, too.

0. Warhammer 40,000 warp-drive - achieves FTL travel by using magic to shortcut through Hell, unreliable but potential for fun scenarios

Ether was widely available during the Civil War and used for general anesthesia during surgical procedures like amputation. They also could have used morphine to dull his pain and make him insensible. I guess you could pretend the surgery was doing so many procedures that day they ran out.

Every once in a while I remember the Vanity Fair profile of her from like 2017 that said her main hobby was "reading magazines" and her biggest professional accomplishment was an AFLAC commercial.

As an intellectual exercise I understand that a lot of people think movies are real, or whatever, but every so often you run into that mentality in the wild and it is really weird. Yeah, if anybody tried to enforce laws on Elon he would just do Moonraker IRL. For sure, man.

It depends on whether you interpret the 1876 election as cementing the failure of Reconstruction or as confirmation that Reconstruction had already failed. By 1876 white supremacist terror had already established Redeemer governments in most of the former Confederacy.

We also see occasional glimpses of other cultures, which are unfortunately poorly realized most of the time. "Up The Long Ladder" (TNG S2E18), which is basically "what if there were Irish Travelers in Space?" is a notorious example of how that would go wrong.

The DS9 long character arcs for Quark, Rom, and Nog are centrally about the varying degrees that each of them is a Ferengi assimilating to Federation culture. That's probably why they're arguably the best examples of character development in the franchise.

The perspective characters are overwhelmingly human Starfleet officers, so we see a lot of their culture. Main cast characters who are Vulcan, Klingon, Bajoran, etc. have episodes devoted to it but they're still heavily acculturated to Starfleet. DS9 is much better in this respect.

It's actually much worse than that because he's the President pro Tempore of the Senate (therefore third in succession after the VP) and long-time chair of the judiciary committee. He isn't just a senator who should know the Constitution, he's the one senator who should know it best.

It's usually called "All-Natural Flavor Enhancer" which doesn't really pop.

My favorite version and the kind I always have on hand is the Knorr powder in the Mexican aisle. It's pretty much MSG with herbs and a token amount of natural chicken/beef flavor so they can package it as "broth."

If MSG was branded with some kind of wholesome-sounding name instead of a chemical formula there would be shakers of it next to the pepper and salt in every home kitchen and on tables at restaurants.

I don't want to exaggerate, because many parents are great and most of them are at least okay. It just sticks with you more when you see somebody who's a shitty parent fucking up their kid, and there's very little you can do for them.

I'm with you,
and I love you,
because we love these kids,
but the legal structures that define the relationship between school and these kids,
oh boy,
they do not support that

if you buy an instruction book to learn how to draw it will tell you shit about drawing a human figure that is incompatible with this person

the distance between the ground and the natural waist is supposed to be 1/2 the total height!

visibly way less than that for this guy! he is a homunculus!

Talking to a kindergarten colleague at the first monthly meeting of teachers' union building reps in the academic year. She's going to be responsible for potty training 3 of the 25 six-year-olds in her classroom. More than usual but not shocking.

Eavesdropping on the attendance coach making phone calls to parents of chronically truant kids. A girl who hasn't been to school a single day in the last six weeks.

"She says she's sleepy, so, y'know, I just let her stay in bed. I don't know what you want me to do?"

In a 504 meeting for ADHD accommodations with a couple of evangelical Christians deadnaming their son every other sentence. Work out on the fly out how to explain quiet space and extended time options without either misgendering him or outing him to his parents.

When you're a teacher you see some things that really temper your respect for the argument that parental rights over their children are sacred.

No, that's the same synergy as between grilled cheese and tomato soup. The flavor profile of butter chicken is obviously different but they hit a similar rich-sweet-acid combo.

Thanks, I missed that.

Yes. He has this very large and bulky frame but his head still looks too big for his body, so it must be staggeringly oversized. He has the build of Shrek and the personality of Lord Farquaad but is somehow an actual real-life person.

You're laughing now, but you'll look pretty stupid when you find yourself in a skirmish with ISIS at Dupont Circle and your only tourniquet requires TWO hands to deploy. Many such cases.

username post combo is on point