Almost certainly contains ass pennies. I’ve been sticking $30 worth of pennies up my ass for 11 years. That’s twelve million twelve thousand pennies. Eight times the population of Nebraska. That coin milk almost certainly has one of my ass pennies in it.

Reminds me of my college days.

Getting blasted in the face full force?

My two rules for my kiddo:

1. Use it correctly.
2. Don’t get me in trouble.

This guy sounds like management material.

I believed this. You are the first person I’ve ever heard whose had this same belief.

Elton John doesn’t write his own music.

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Meme is truth.

The rules are complicated, as they stipulate tipsters in with a chance of the FBI portion of the reward cannot nominate themselves.

This means the McDonald’s worker will have to be put forward by an investigating agency, such as the Department of Defense or the FBI, which is then reviewed by an interagency committee.

If approved, the suggestion is passed on to the Secretary of State, who signs off on the final decision.

If that’s not tough enough, the full reward amount could also be in dispute as payment amounts are based on factors from the value of the information provided, the level of threat, the severity of danger or injury to people or property, and the degree of the source’s cooperation.

As for the NYPD’s $10k, the rewards program is granted through Crime Stoppers, where tipsters receive a unique reference number.

This number is crucial as the tipster has to use it call back or check the status of the investigation online before lodging a claim with the NYC Police Foundation and the Crime Stoppers Board of Directors, who ultimately decide whether to approve the tip and instruct the caller how to receive it.

So, if the informant called 911 instead of Crime Stoppers, they might be unable to make the claim.

In both cases, the rewards will only be paid out if the arrest leads to indictment or conviction from the court - so the McDonald’s employee could be waiting a while and even at the end of it all, might not even get a dime.

Doing god’s work over here

This is probably a weird cropping, but I like to think this doors pushed open since there are no hinges on this side.

The US embassy has been shuttered since 2012 when Syria severed relations. Limited services are provided out of the Czech embassy for the US.

The roots of the relationship goes back several decades.

By the late 1970s, the state apparatus of the Baath regime under Assad had consolidated into an anti-Sunni orientation. Official propaganda incited Alawite farmers against rich Sunni landowners and regularly disseminated stereotypes of Sunni merchants and industrialists, casting them as enemies of nationalisation and socialist revolution. Bitterness towards the Assadist regime and the Alawite elite in the Baath and armed forces became widespread amongst the Sunni majority, laying the beginnings of an Islamic resistance. Prominent leaders of Muslim Brotherhood like Issam al-Attar were imprisoned and exiled. A coalition of the traditional Syrian Sunni ulema, Muslim Brotherhood revolutionaries and Islamist activists formed the Syrian Islamic Front in 1980 with objective of overthrowing Assad through Jihad and establishing an Islamic state. In the same year, Hafez officially supported Iran in its war with Iraq and controversially began importing Iranian fighters and terror groups into Lebanon and Syria. This led to rising social tensions within the country which eventually became a full-fledged rebellion in 1982; led by the Islamic Front. The regime responded by slaughtering the Sunni inhabitants in Hama and Aleppo and bombarding numerous mosques, killing around 20,000–40,000 civilians. The uprising was brutally crushed and Assad regarded the Muslim Brethren as demolished.

You’d expect party unity between Syrian Ba’ath and Iraqi Ba’ath, but Saadam was labeled a fascist and the Syrian regional branch recognized Khomeni rather early on. Survival and having regional friends were more important than playing games.

The Last Dragon

Some how these maps always forget the Falkland Islands.

I thought we all agreed

Ron Howard:

Clearly, there was no consensus among respondents on how they define aging

The loss of Roman concrete happened before the collapse of the Western Roman empire. This is one exception to your insightful comment. Major public works were halted in the last century before the collapse. The last major project in Western Europe was the Temple of Minerva around 325 CE.

In Constantinople, a small church, tha Hagia Irene, has concrete walls. Larger works, like the famous city walls, don’t have any concrete. It honestly may not have been an appropriate material choice, but other projects didn’t use Roman concrete either. I think this might be because volcanic ash wasn’t readily available.

I did misspell Epicureanism.

They do suggest that seeking pleasure is very important. But there’s a focus on the simple pleasures with time with friends as one of the highest pleasure. There’s also the concept of atarxia which the state of mind of calmness and acceptance.

Shoving is pretty normal in mainland China. It’s just how you get through crowds. I’ve heard it’s getting better.

Only then will Musk arrive on Mars.

Great. When did Mars go woke?