This isn’t about gap years, it’s much earlier (in terms of the child’s age) than that and has a bigger impact on their education. If the parents sent their kids off to wherever for a gap year at 18 it wouldn’t be a problem because the kids have completed that phase of their education, so there’s nothing to disrupt.…

That’s exactly what I’m talking about.

Another would impose a four-year prison sentence on immigrant parents who force their children to make extended visits to their country of origin — described here as “re-education trips” —in that way damaging their “schooling, language and well-being.”

As long as we are interacting with the knob, are not our hands still dirty? What am I missing?

‘fried rice syndrome’ sounds like something from a surreal meme video

Oooh, that’s a construction technique I hadn’t heard of. Looks more likely than my idea.

My guess about the red frame is that it’s a panel beating buck or jig i.e. a template for the panel beater to check the panels against for shape and fitment.

At least you admit that you don’t actually know.

Twitter is not the only platform. He’ll be on as many as he can keep track of.

‘Showed’ is not the word, ‘suggested’ would be more like it:

Missiles almost universally use solid propellant. My suspicion is that there was some sort of failure in the propellant that burst the propellant casing, like a chunk of propellant falling into the nozzle bore and blocking it. Cracks in the propellant could have a similar effect by allowing the fuel to burn much more…

the Dragonfly mounted its engine longitudinally, in front of the the front axle

Do you mean ‘блять’?

Fingers crossed that they can get Doug Bradley back on board.

Charlottesville was a PR massacre for the far-right, though. That’s why they were so desperate to sow doubt about Heather Heyer’s death afterwards. The alt-right brand has been dying ever since and most of the unity that was built has gone.

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I have a feeling that people using PrEP are going to have higher rates of other STDs instead.

Getting hold of Imperial/English fasteners in Thailand will be fun.

Mid Continent Nail Corporation

Apparently a lot of that time was ICE waiting for the Canadian authority to sent some paperwork over.