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> Christian churches face the East I should have been more specific, it's about praying to a specific place. Jews face the western wall in Jerusalem, Muslims face Mecca. And they do this in or out of the synagogue (or mosque as far
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I think Judaism and Islam have more in common with each other than with Christianity. Christianity's belief in the divinity of Jesus is shared by neither other religion. The Jewish jurist Maimonides ruled that Christians were idol wors
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Can't you get a plugin induction? It takes up counter space, but theoretically could be placed on top of the coil burner
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> she gets to walk free That still remains to be seen.
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I think we can turn Ideators Anonymous into a successful business - seminars, book deals, retreats, rehab centres, the works!
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We're about to have rail strikes in the UK. I asked a taxi driver in London whether he gets more trips/surge, and he said it gets more than negated by the added traffic. And that really brought home how a public transport infrastr
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Usually passwords or keys are stored in a config file, and that is stored in a place outside the repo.
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I clicked on a few "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past" is about English snowfalls, and it is true that we don't have heavy snowfall, not sure why this is a failed prediction, it's more of a statement of fact. So
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I was born on the 30th of Cheshvan which as he explains is one of the days that doesn't show up every year (I guess is the equivalent of February 29th). I've always wondered how many birthdays I've had - does anyone know of a
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Or any sort of CAD
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I'm not constitutional lawyer, but those sound like things only the legislature can do, which is beyond his control. The things he has done are things the executive has in it's power.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1947_crises
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Interfering with a traffic signal is a crime in many jurisdictions.
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They would also rub out the ink and reuse the paper. The term for this is Palimpsest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest I came across this practice when reading the Chapter of Fathers in the Mishna: "Elis
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Electric bikes solve that particular problem
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Nearly a quarter of Brexit leave voters (23%) say they prefer their steaks well done, compared with only 12% of remain voters. Source: https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume...
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A red light district is for sex work. Sex trafficking and sex work can be distinguished (i.e. one can have sex work without sex trafficking).
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I'm not a lawyer, but isn't this going to be a pretty big obstruction of justice case?
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The article says to use both - not a preference for using absolute numbers at large scales.
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That's a mitigation strategy but there are many open tickets at any one time. The employee can just go through open tickets and wreak havoc.
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Surely all those guns can also put people behind North Korea type gulags, and caused a few hundred million to be occupied by the USSR?
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> I haven't heard of the psychedelic chemist who had a mental breakdown, I think that's a myth. The biggest risk to mental health for a psychedelic chemist is ending up in prison. Anecdotally I do know someone who had a psychot
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I really enjoyed Sasha's books. That said, I'm not so sure it's easy to replicate his experience: 1) Sasha generally took low/threshold doses. Drugs are all about the dosage. It might not be so easy for you to replicate
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I'm not saying the economic motivations justify the invasion. I'm saying the economic motivations make more sense to me as the root cause of the invasion compared to military reasons.
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I'm no geopolitical expert, but the economic concerns are there. Ukraine is a 'breadbasket', if they were to join the EU's common market (with export tarrifs) then presumably Russians would face rising food costs. The mo
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Whistleblowers are protected from retaliation due to disclosure by law (they don't need to risk their job), I'm not sure a golden parachute would afford much extra protection.
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I bought a folding bike, never bought a lock and that worked for me.
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My partner recently bought a folding ebike for 600 GBP and it wasn't even their entry level model. It is a great bike. 2-3k EUR is not entry level.
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Even if you understand the Hebrew, much of the original meaning has been lost. I'd recommend Kugel 'How to read the Bible' for this.
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The Hebrew part (depending on what you consider cannon) was more likely composed/compiled over a few hundred years. Although the stories may be older, the spelling and other elements are from the Babylonian period. The poems do retain

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