You also have a (largely) farming population, who have work from the spring into the early Autumn. Then months on end of not much to do. Be drunk, eat into food reserves, stay warm and somehow stay strong enough to be useful farmers next spring. You have a bored population of young, drunk, possibly abusive, probably male.

If you want some semblance of control over that population, you create religion, you tax the religion, you convince people that their gods want them to move that stone. The stone gets moved by those people. The taxes feed and intoxicates them, the work keeps them warm. At different times in history you send them to join the army, build a pyramid, go on a crusade.

Dunno, I could be completely wrong. But it doesn't feel entirely wrong to me that we have a common problem that's been solved in a variety of ways in history and this could fit that pattern.

From outside (I live in the UK) and only knowing Texas through media. At some point you have to run on what supports your state/district/town. You can't run a state with a lot of jobs tied in oil and gas by destroying all of those jobs, without causing massive harm.

Separately, Texas as a state had a lot of sunlight and land, and a lot of that energy production could be (should be?) transferred to solar.

While great for the planet, the job loses and associated lack of grassroots income would take a massive change in society.

Have a search for "Chair cylinder removal tool" for another $5-10 it's a matter of turning a few allen bolts to get the cylinder out and not risking damaging everything.

Bonus, mine has made its money back from mates dropping me a few quid to replace their gas struts.

I agree ... ish

I think sex identification is useful for medical stuff, until it isn't. If I was born with testicles, and I have a motorcycle accident that removes them. I don't have testicular cancer. The bit here isn't that I am "male" so I might have testicular cancer, the importance is "do I have testicles".

Sex is an overall term that may align with certain likelyhoods, chances or diagnosis. But even then, it's not a guarantee.

Plenty of electric cars out there now that can do 300 miles to a single charge.

Plenty of places you could drive to, plug the vehicle in, go about your day and let it charge while you're busy doing something else. Fuel stations meant we had to be with our cars while they were refueling. That's no longer a necessity.

In the event that you are in the extreme minority that really cannot work with an electric vehicle shrug stick with liquid fuel until that changes. But there's no reason to stop the other 90% of the population getting on with a better technology for the vast majority of drives out there. It takes a small change in thinking, that's all.

My partner (in the UK) has a 110 mile a day round trip commute. Work got her an electric van with a 150ish mile range. Annoyingly she also has to do 30-40 miles a day while at work. The math just doesn't work out. However, if her work put a charger on the house (which has tax implications) a fast charger in the work yard, it would work out just fine.

The tech isn't impossible, the tech just needs a little refinement to cover the small percentage of uses cases left that it doesn't work. Yet people focus on the handful of times it's a minor inconvenience, to write off a while developing and improving technology.

Great. Charge at home, then you can spend as long or as little in a gas station as you want.

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You've hit the nail on the head (from my perspective) and it was basically what I was going to say.

Umami is the big hit on flavour. So replacing with another Umami source. Mushroom ketchup, Marmite/Vegemite, (Vegan) Oyster sauce alternatives would all fit the bill. All of these are shelf stable for a long time, so can be bought in bulk and used repeatedly.

It's a good start ... but ... if you've done what I think you've done, you've made the tip quite a wide angle.

In this first picture the secondary bevel is the "dark" grey section. At you get to where you've ground it, the secondary bevel gets a lot thinner. This means this part of the knife is "blunter" on the bevel. You might be able to get the same apex, but it wont cut as well.

I'd start at that tip and try and make the bevel even thickness the whole length of the blade.

Going to war with Iran is giving Israel exactly what it wanted. So, why would someone want a ground war with Iran?

Why would anyone have started a war with Iran?

• Negotiations were in place for nuclear disarmament, that nobody was projecting failure on.
• Hormuz was always a known entity to the intelligence communities.
• Israel has long needed to be told to get back in its box.

"we" don't need it. Despite every large civilisation inventing it, small civilisation (150 person village) just doesn't. And can thrive quite happily without it.

It's when civilisation gets larger that we "need" money. You can't build the LHC or Artemis 2 without some form of intermediary currency. The problem is, to do that you end up with the issues of power imbalances.