No, it's competence that I'm flushing out.

There's actually quite a bit of rust and sludge that I need to get out of the lines in addition to the air. Yes, this system is not long for this world.

Low life expectancy has always been caused mostly by high infant and child mortality

In demography, the life expectancy of a modern population is calculated by fitting a curve to the most recent infant and child mortality (< 5 years old) measurements. Not relevant to ancient Rome, but for the modern world life expectancy is not just heavily influenced by infant and child mortality, but is rather 100% a measure of infant and child mortality.

One reason lead was so plentiful is that a lot of the silver ore in Europe contains a hundred times more lead than silver by weight and the lead has a lower melting point, so the quest for silver produced an enormous amount of lead as a byproduct.

Lol 2. There's also Saudi Arabia, Elon Musk and a bunch of other billionaires. Trump is a corruption drive-thru.

How dare you leave out the Bone Saw Kingdom?

Yeah, two of them should be Israeli flags.

I did the dumbest thing I've ever done last fall, on a house I own but don't occupy yet. It didn't really turn cold enough for the furnace until November, when I went over the get the 40-year-old thing running again so my pipes didn't freeze. The heating system uses hot water and radiators and periodically needs to have the water flushed out to work properly. I opened the stopcocks but nothing came out right away, so I closed and re-opened them a few times and then forgot which positions were open or closed. I then went home and it turns out I had left the cocks open.

Came back the next morning to ten inches of water in the basement. I have a sump pump but I had forgotten to plug it in. Had to walk barefoot through freezing cold water to plug it back in and at least it emptied out the basement in about 45 minutes. My front yard was hilariously soaked.

Am I forgetting anybody?

Liberty Fuel lol.

I don't think there's any debate as to whether trump wrote that book or not. The only debate is over whether he ever read it.

historical accuracy in movies

It would be nice to have this occasionally.

Funny how the Supreme Court used precedents from other countries, some from before the US even existed, to overturn Roe v. Wade.

My brother spent eight fucking weeks with a constant migraine unable to walk or even stand up without falling over, before his insurance finally approved the MRI that discovered the golf-ball-sized tumor in his brain. Muigi Langione is all I can say.