I don't see anything that explicitly defined why they chose PCT, but I think it seems reasonable. PST means Pacific Standard Time, and PDT means Pacific Daylight Time. I could see PCT making Pacific Constant Time, or maybe Pacific Coordinated Time (in reference to UTC). Changing the middle character seems consistent with convention for timezone abbreviations.

I think they were suggesting that the service she hosted the image on used some AI tool for compression which modified it in such a way to be flagged by the scanner. They were not suggesting that she used an AI tool herself.

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I guess there are a few notable examples of celebrities that are ardent atheists (or agnostics), such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, or Carl Sagan. However, I don't think that I see that so much for pundits unless you are talking about people whi are brought on specifically to speak about atheism or religion. And when it comes to politicians, atheism is usually anathema to them. I tend to see them all professing how important their faith is, even if it otherwise seems out of character for them. The only one that I can think of who is openly atheist is Kyrsten Sinema (at least in the United States), but I don't think she uses the term "atheist."

Maybe things are different in Europe, though.

Oftentimes, amendments like those are proposed because they will kill the bill. If AOC wanted the bill to pass and knew that it could not pass with that amendment, then she would need to vote against the amendment even if she otherwise agrees with the content. That fact is another reason that amendments like this are suggested: they force a politician to vote against something that they otherwise support.

So when evaluating her vote in the amendment, you need to consider the broader context of the bill that was being voted on to understand what her vote means. Was the bill as a whole worthwhile, or should she have tanked it for ideological means?

The most recent thing that I learned about was that the CIA secretly worked with Boris Hagelin when he formed Crypto AG in the 1950s to ensure that encryption devices sold to foreign countries were easy to break by American intelligence agencies. Then in the 1970s, the CIA secretly purchased Crypto AG and owned it until 2018.

Crypto AG sold devices to countries across South America, Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia. Basically, all of tge US's adversaries aside from the USSR and China.

FYI, there is a difference between nonviolence and pacifism. Pacifism opposes violence altogether and is predicated on the idea that there is a peaceful way to settle all disputes. That is to say, it's a philosophical or ethical position. Nonviolence is a strategy to achieve your goals without employing violence. Nonviolent protesters do not take violence off the table altogether. Rather, they believe that violent actions are not as likely to achieve their goals as nonviolent action would be.

In general, nonviolent action is taken by groups who are opposing an oppressor that has a significant power advantage over them. By resorting to violence immediately, they play into a game that they are destined to lose. Instead, they strive to use nonviolent means to make their struggle impossible to ignore. It relies on the oppressive system being vulnerable to a change in public opinion. In general, it also involves an implication that they may someday resort to violence if things do not change. That is, it differs from pacifism in that it does not deny that violence may be necessary.

I'm assuming that it's a bit different when dealing with toilets in the home, but my experience with cleaning public restrooms has shown that women are quite capable of making a mess around the toilet as well.

The initial story that was told just involved the run to Sparta in a single day prior to the battle to ask for assistance. After the Athenians won the battle, they marched the 40km to Athens in full armor in order to arrive before the retreating Persians could launch a naval attack on the city itself. Later, these two stories got combined into the popular legend that's described in this post.

So yeah, the rush was that they were trying to outpace an incoming invasion. They won the battle, but the war was still on. Their rush back to Athens allowed them to stop a direct assault on the city, which led the Persians to retreat entirely.

You are expecting too much from Trump. His pattern is to proclaim some new policy with shaky justification and no prior analysis. At best, his thought pattern is, "20% sounds like a good number." Then he lets the rest of his administration try to define something of substance around his public statements, hoping that he doesn't contradict their attempts in the coming days.

Technically, they are if sending emails to Americans, but I'm not sure how much enforcement this law gets.

I used to not refrigerate my syrup. However, that changed when I found a scoby growing in it one day. And some people refrigerate natural peanut butter so that the oil doesn't separate.