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If a teacher earning 100k can't improvise a short lesson on how to read an analog clock and make it also applicable to other aspects of the class, or life in general (fractions, counting by fives, understanding of language, time management) then the teacher / curriculum may be the lowest common denominator.

My first thought was that if it was microscopic structural cracks that enough dust just finally accumulated around and in the cracks to provide an effective seal like a clogged air filter.
But it does say that they did deliberate sealing activities, so I wonder what those were, if they did anything beyond spraying "germetall-1"

I'm using a Dell XPS 420 desktop system a friend gave me a *while* ago right now - so old, it originally had Windows 7 on it.. It's currently my Windows 10 system and has always run Windows well, though I did add a SATA3 PCIe card and switch to a SSD.

I'm currently procrastinating my switch from using it full-time to my Linux Mint 22.2 (Cinnamon) system I assembled using an ASRock Z77 Extreme3 motherboard, a different friend gave me, on which I installed an Intel i7-377 and 32 GB RAM, SSD, etc... That system runs Linux very well. I imagine the XPS 420 would/will run Linux well too.

As I've outlined, there is already violence. There has been violence. Literal nonstop violence. It will end when both sides want it to end, but that is the one condition that absolutely must be met, since without a will there is no way.

I don't even think it would be that hard, if there were truly a will for it, and if peace were truly pursued it would heal so many facets of life in the area, Israel wouldn't need Iron domes or Samson options; IDF budget could be repurposed in meaningful ways that help the population.

A) Israel needs to stop being the stereotype in its relations. Full stop, whatever things that could be perceived as Jewy: just stop doing them.
B) start recognizing your neighbors as human beings instead of amalek. Honor the intent of agreements and don't weasel your way around them. That includes ceasefires: if your people open up on unarmed civilians, they need to be publicly PROSECUTED instead of privately ATTABOY'D. Also stop justifying rape of POWs. It's beyond sick.
C) don't murder peace delegations, especially don't send missiles into foreign countries to murder peace delegations. Crazy, right?
D) absolutely stop settler activities
E) acknowledge how you've manipulated the situation (supporting Hamas publicly and secretly) and prepare to institute reparations
F) recognition of the Palestinian people internationally, lead the world into supporting a Palestinian government you'd be comfortable having as a neighbor.
G) build reasonable accommodation (not tent cities) in NEGATIVE FIRE ZONES, with international oversight, and invite survivors to start new lives there. Strictly uphold their security.

Might as well ask for a pony too while you're at it. :-)

This guy nailed it with the only ID DHS cares about these days.

The idea that "before oct 7 the violence was mostly not going on" is insane on the face of it, as the population of Gaza has been under constant blockade since the early 90s--therefore under constant military threat and in fact enduring a constant act of war throughout the last 35 years--multiple generations essentially living in an open air concentration camp.
Blockading a civilian population can be considered at once: an act of war, and a war crime; especially if aid is withheld as it has been multiple times. People have an individual and a collective right of self-defense. That includes Israelis, of course, but it also includes Palestinians.
The situation is entirely untenable all around, and it doesn't help that it's been engineered to be perpetual by the more powerful, more connected side of the conflict--so they can continue to nibble away at Palestine with the settler strategy. I can only imagine the righteous indignation we would witness if the situation were reversed.

In case it wasn't clear, a Passport Card, like a regular Passport, is also valid for domestic U.S. travel.

And yes, they still recite it. There is a Supreme Court ruling that any school child has a Constitutional right to refuse to recite the Pledge, but not many kids are going to have the guts to invoke that right when the teacher is leading the whole class in reciting it.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.". And yes, that was entirely from memory.

"It will take time, though"

Funny, I seem to recall Orange Jesus telling us the exact opposite before the election.

"I don't need citations, it's obvious" = "I need to hide the fact that I have no evidence."

This was kinda spelled out in TFS, but as I understand it, Real ID was just supposed to certify that you are who the ID says you are. It wasn't suppose to verify U.S. citizenship and non-citizens can get Real IDs too. But... you have to show a birth certificate or passport (for which you had to show a birth certificate) to get your Real ID. So they have, or had, your citizenship data at one point. The ID just doesn't show that. Perhaps they just need to update the ID with different shapes/colors for U.S. citizens / non-citizens, etc...

As a note to U.S. citizens, in addition to (or instead of) a Passport Book, you can get a Passport Card, the size of a credit card, noting that it's only good for travel by land and sea from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and some Caribbean countries. It's less expensive than a Passport Book - Adult price for Card: $30 vs Book: $130. And you can have both.

You can go back clear before Israel was a country and find that j-ish terrorist agents bombed British policemen, hotels, did drivebys against civilians in the days after WWI wrapped up. How far back do you want to go? 1890s, when it was still Ottoman Empire clay, and schemers were trying to bring Europe into conflict with the ottomans? Because it's there too.

Who started what and when? What does it matter? Who holds the power NOW? You can scarcely call what is being prosecuted a war any more than fish in a barrel are capable of waging war against someone with a gun shooting randomly at the barrel.