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A css fix would prevent this.

Also make the damn upvote buttons bigger on mobile.


Hckrnews.com is a far better frontent. Implemented the long line fix, and also preserves topics that were upvoted to the top and subsequently flagged to death by bot farms or the owners.

Notability is subjective

In the Universe, yes. In the closed system of Wikipedia, no, it's a well defined term with clearly established criteria, tested over the years on thousands of Talk pages on controversial pages, of how to achieve consensus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

What other sci fi technology is being lost on us now? I always that the complexity of the local-battery-powered copper-cable telephone exchange system was bonkers. It was the backbone for all our landline calls.

The telephone system also powered the phone, and often worked when the power grid did not.

https://www.fishersci.ca/shop/products/croton-oil-thermo-sci...

The spec sheet here suggests it’s pungent. I wonder if this truly worked or if the smell would make it immediately obvious.


Without having smelled croton oil myself, canned brisling (which is what it is, even if it was sold as sardines) has a quite strong smell and taste. I can easily imagine that it could mask the pungent smell of the croton oil.

Sometimes people seem to learn from history by treating it like a playbook.

Why do you think they will remove the option to buy the software? They’ve kept the model for years. They’re targeting different audiences with the move.

They amassed critical pieces of military hardware off the coast (carriers, warships, helicopters, planes). They took out military infrastructure. They placed radar systems throughout the region. Just because it was fast and met its goal doesn't mean it wasn't an invasion. You don't need an on-the-ground force when you control everything that can go in and out.

And the bombing of Hiroshima leveled an entire city. Still wasn't an invasion.

While true, the US did actually invade Imperial Japan. They captured nearly all the Ryukyu islands before the atomic bombings.

Yes, that's an invasion! And the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands during WWII. Taking even a barely inhabited frozen rock by force is an invasion. Has nothing to do with the scale of destruction.

“Invasion” implies the intent of sustained military occupation/control over some portion a country’s territory. There’s no suggestion that was ever the objective here.

Idk, Trump seems to have strong intent to control the oil production.

Agreed. However what happened Jan 3rd wasn't an invasion.

That doesn't make it an invasion. It was a capture/extraction operation.

Was it a large scale one, sure. But it was not an invasion.


how long is now?

Depends, but some things it could mean include clear intent to end the situation within the foreseeable future, taking it outside some but not all definitions of indefinite.

The comma is behind the m. I hate it. Why can’t we have the basic punctuation up front.


When people wanted “no more wars” this isn’t what they meant…


Anyone who voted for him on that basis was the sort of sucker who loses poker games to five year olds.


Or virtually any other basis


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