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Best one is not knowing in advance which of the five identical bowls is "his" one.

If you decide to pick up the series, check out the reading order guide, I would personally go with sub series first and not chronological.

The City Watch or Witches are a great place to start.

The bastard child of a delorean and a countach...but in a good way.

I like the look, but the engineering, cost, reliability but mostly the Nazi; make it a non-option.

I didn't know who he was, so had a quick read of his Wikipedia page

Robinson was drafted for service during World War II but was court-martialed for refusing to sit at the back of a segregated Army bus, eventually being honorably discharged.

What a legend.

So ramp up tension with either Canada or Mexico; then manufacture some incident and invade to "protect democracy" or some shit....bada bing bada boom, a nice little war and the ability to declare martial law.

Whilst this may be the case, 49MYa was a long time ago. Any mammals around at the time had probably evolved to deal with fungal infections.

But as the climate cooled back to similar levels that we have had in the recent past (last 200k years) those evolved traits would have been de-selected since they are a cost with no benefit.

The problem with the current warming is that the rate is much higher than in the past, fast evolving creatures (read small, with short generation cycles) can change much more quickly to deal with the new conditions; those of us that evolve much more slowly cannot compete.

Bacteria and viruses are not much of a threat, our immune systems have been battling them for our entire evolutionary history. Every now and then one comes along and does a whole bunch of damage, but overall we come out on top.

Mammals haven't really had to worry about fungus, we are too hot and there hasn't been a forcing factor to make fungus evolve temperature resistance, till recently. We don't have any defense against fungal infection; the temperature barrier has always kept us safe.

Global warming is forcing fungal evolution, our temperature barrier is shrinking, at some point in the not too distant future, there will be a major outbreak of a fungal disease.

Those are steel scaffolding poles and clamps....even has end caps. As long as the clamps nuts are torqued correctly, that is not anywhere.

U+0088 = HTS Character Tabulation Set. Latin-1 Supplement.
U+0078 = Latin Small Letter X (dec 120) U+0058 = Latin Capital Letter X (dec 88)

It's more effective with the X.

Also is the first meme I made, took 5 minutes. You can figure it out, be a creator, I believe in you.

X is used in maths to describe the unknown in equations. It entered pop-culture representing the unknown/mysterious or the different.

Musk uses it to symbolise difference or breaking from the past, which is ironic as he is becoming the modern embodiment of failed ideologies.

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