Thank you for the high quality sources. Cleveland Clinic has been recommended to me multiple times by health care providers.

It looks like the article was updated so I have no clue where the statement came from anymore.

edit Am I on drugs or did the article get updated? The section about charges is completely gone so maybe the below statement isn’t true.

Look I’m as anti-ICE as the rest of you, but did anyone read the charges? OP conveniently left out of their summary that these workers were arrested and deported as part of a child sexual exploitation material bust.

Do the individual photons slow down? No. But those photons get absorbed by atoms along the way and then a new photon of light is emitted (nearly, but not literally, instantly) which then continues along it’s merry way at C until it encounters another atom. What slows down is the net speed of transport through a given medium.

you’re overtly sexual!

ahh yes, as opposed to the forced scenes where all the boys group up for boy power

When I lived about 20 minutes away from Washington, D.C. in the late 2010s I was paying ~$1700/month for a single bedroom apartment D=

IMO the point is more that this article IS talking about someone specifically in Shenzen, and a report (PDF) I found shows that the average monthly cost for a 1 bedroom apartment in the city center is just over $800 USD a month with a monthly salary for English teachers of about $2,900 USD a month as of 2020. Sources are at the bottom of the PDF.

Is lab grade distilled water more guaranteed to be neutral pH? Because I tested some random distilled water from walmart and it was like 5.5. I then went down a rabbit hole and learned that distilled water is so pure that it just sucks up carbon from the air.

It’s an older meme, Sir, but it checks out.

“conversations with letters of the alphabet” hahahah fair. But also like, in their defence, you would assume that someone being placed in command of the flagship of the Federation would have been thoroughly vetted before hand wouldn’t you?

I’d argue that not knowing Picard very well gave them no reason to question him either.

I hope they bring some vibe coded, 3d-printed anti-air defense missiles with them!

she better be callin her cooch ms moopsy then (bc it be drainin them bones)

Naw he’s just the ElectroBOOM of computers. Intentionally does shit wrong to show people how not to do things.

I’ve yet to play EF2. Skippable in your opinion?

hopefully he cleans it first!

I quite liked how they added to the lore of the world without completely turning things upside down. Just some more fun with

I was a big fan of Telltale games and this felt like a spiritual successor to them.

Have you played Elite Force recently? It was a fun romp through a Trek ship museum, and had the benefit of voice acting from the cast, but I didn’t enjoy it as much recently as I did when I was a kid and it makes me sad.