[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

indoctrinate from the Latin docēre, "to teach"

(Other offspring of docēre include doctor, document, and, of course, doctrine)

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

They are exercising their right to sail through international waters.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They had to get rid of the public option to get enough Democratic support to pass.

It was not a party line vote, 34 Democrats joined all the Republicans in voting No. It squeaked through the House, 219-212.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure it was a bit.

He wasn't investigating her. If you are an undercover agent and meet someone new - off duty and unrelated to work - are you allowed to tell them your real name?

If not, if a single person is forced to choose between no intimate relationships and relationships only under a pseudonym, then the latter is the predictable choice.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

She was advised to remove it.

I think "forced" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. People use it to refer to unpleasant decisions, like "I was forced to leave New York City after I lost my job".

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What a weird study. They only asked participants what they ate in the past 24 hours.

So that means a small proportion of people eat half the beef consumed on a given day. For that matter, a small proportion of people probably eat most of the strawberries consumed on a given day.

The title implies that there is a small group of people eating most of the beef produced in the US. But people don't usually eat the same thing every day. So the study only shows that most Americans are unlikely to eat beef today.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nitrogen can cause a "high" (aka nitrogen narcosis), but this effect only occurs at high pressures. So it is only a practical concern for divers, because they have to breathe high pressure air. Some divers replace the nitrogen in their tanks with other gases to avoid it.

It is unrelated to asphyxiation, and can occur even when the lungs are properly exchanging oxygen and CO2. It is a poorly understood direct interaction between high pressure nitrogen and the brain that does not occur at atmospheric pressure.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

He's not ambassador to China. An ambassadorship to Japan is relatively low pressure, mostly revolving around organizing and attending social events.

American embassies are usually underfunded and ambassadors often have to pay for social events out-of-pocket, which is one reason why the job often goes to wealthy people.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

So he fell out of a window created by a surface to air missile.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Maybe they mean the impeachment trial, but if so that's a bad take.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Yes, it's trademarked for use in video games.

And by another company for use in sporting equipment.

And by another company for fiber optics.

And by another company, as follows...

Telecommunications services, namely, transmission of voice, data, graphics, images, audio, and video via the internet

Yeah, maybe should've stuck with "Twitter"

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

But Franco got a pass. Probably because he didn't invade his neighbors and committed his atrocities at home like a good little fascist.

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