In my observation, it depends when it happened and how minority cultures arrived.

In the US, Spanish and British culture arrived by colonisation, and African culture arrived through slavery. But most cultures that arrived through free immigration during the 20th century seemed to do okay.

Similar story in Australia, although Australia might be an unusually successful example of multiculturalism. Almost all of the racism is directed at indigenous people.

It’s ridiculously cheap and it’s slow but usable. ATA/33 was a standard, you know. For some retrocomputing project, this could be great.

To the extent that Palestinians have a distinct culture, that culture is not "Hamas".

The thing that I don't get is why anyone thinks "the Israelis" or "the Palestinians" are homogenous. The vast majority of citizens of both areas are just people who want to be left alone to live their lives.

I miss the days of Rabin and Arafat.

By the way, I don't understand the "Palestinians were never a people" argument. Neither were "Canadians". Hell, it's part of Russia's official line about Ukraine. I'm highly dubious about what role ethnostates should play in the 21st century. They are, at best, a hack to try to get a peace deal now

Surely the end goal of any 21st century country is to be multi-ethnic and multi-cultural.

If it helps, consider that Hamas did not win a majority of the vote in the last election, which was held in 2006. (Although, admittedly, they got a higher vote than Likud did in the last Israeli election...)

It can be simultaneously true that the current Israeli government is an oppressive settler-colonial regime, and Hamas are straight up terrorists. It can be simultaneously true that neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian "leadership" have a clear democratic mandate.

"Motel" comes from "motor hotel" - a term that came about because the properties catered to the then-new phenomenon of roadtripping. If you go to an office and get handed a key, and you park right outside your room and enter directly from the outside - it's a motel. If you get dropped off or valet your car, then check in, and the only way to get to your room is via the front lobby (or maybe a second entrance for a big one), it's a hotel. Since you're in New Orleans - the Canal Street and CBD places are hotels, the La Quinta at Causeway and I-10 is a motel, and the Springhill Suites on St Joseph in the Warehouse District is a nice motel.

Basically, if you have to pay to park there, it's almost certainly a hotel. If you don't, it's almost certainly a motel or motel-like. I've stayed at exceptions to that rule of thumb, but that's the rough divide.

Even if that were true, at least you know where you stand. Twitter is now run by a self-described "free speech absolutist" who sucks up to dictators and persecutes whistleblowers.

Exactly this. Twitter's only value proposition is that pretty much everyone was there, such as any company that you might have a grievance with. As they jump ship, only something like the union of the FB ground and the Fediverse could possibly serve the same function.

Crap, I had a temp job like that in the 90s, except that it was entering data from a mainframe into a Windows 95 application. Two hours in, I asked for a Win 3.11 CD from IT, used Recorder (which recorded both keystrokes and mouse actions) to automate the whole process, asked for three days' pay (I figured it would take me four mind-numbing days to do manually, vs about 36 hours of continuous operation of the macro), and got offered a job on the spot. Sorry, starting medical school in three weeks.

Yes, when a tire on my wife's car went flat in the garage and I had to change the damned thing in the middle of summer, I discovered that the 1' lug wrench included with the car was incapable of breaking the nuts loose even if I stood on the end of it. A 3' pipe segment gave enough torque (luckily, I was at home and thus had pipe lying around).

After getting the tire replaced, my next stop was at a building supply shop, where I had 2' long segments cut from a pipe. That was small enough to fit in the spare compartments of both our cars.

Only to a point, and then it's use-it-or-lose-it. My job is always use-it-or-lose-it, so I had a lot of staycations during pandemic times.

If you're looking for well-written satire, I hate to break it to you, but -- you're on the wrong website.

Put it in your policy manual and you won't have trouble justifying why you don't have any logs. It's when you have a suspicious 2-hour period in which the logs failed - but not all the logs, just the ones they might be interested in - that you get in trouble. "We are not required to log this information, so we don't" is perfectly acceptable company policy.

Every CT scan performed on you increases your risk of cancer. Not a ton. Maybe 1%, tops. But definitely not zero. There are a lot of X-rays going around in one of those. No, for hernias you use those classic, non-ionizing detectors: the eyes and hands. If it's big enough to matter, trust me, you'll notice it.

Dr. Pimple Popper also has her patients agree to be filmed ahead of time and, at least when she was just a YouTube star, charged no professional fee for the work that she was filmed doing. And her commentary doesn't really delay the procedure by very much. It's not much different from how one doctor would describe a procedure to another doctor that wasn't familiar with it, at least in terms of amount of conversation. "So here I'm going to numb around the area [said as she does so], and now I'm making an incision with an 11 blade at the skin and I'll express the contents of the pore [all while doing just that], and to wrap it up, this is a fairly large and deep one so I'll use the curette [technician hands her the curette] to scrape out the walls of this cyst." That sort of commentary adds maybe 5% to the length of a procedure, really not an issue.