Basically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiCl7j9mowk

Rye, barley, oats, and rice are also grasses.

Rye used to be a weed that evolved to resemble wheat so early farmers wouldn’t uproot it. But it evolved to resemble wheat so much that it became an edible crop in its own right.

Wow, no, she was in the wrong.

I spent three years unemployed after I graduated college. It was perfectly acceptable to call a place and ask if they were hiring. Never did me any good, but there is nothing wrong with doing so.

Some disaster relief charities used to let people decide how their donations would be spent. Donors overwhelmingly voted for rebuilding houses, because everybody needs a house, and replacing someone’s house is nice and feels good.

The charities ended up with way too much money earmarked for housing, which they were legally required to spend on new houses. That excess money could have been spent on boring things like sewage, but they were legally barred from doing so. The result was a lot of people with unnecessarily big, fancy homes with no working toilets or running water.

The charities quickly dropped this practice, because donors directed the money to what felt right instead of to where it was actually needed or would do the most good. And that’s why we don’t run the country that way.

That was my dad’s experience. He was born in 1952 in Ireland, and one day my grandad sat down with him for a very vague and confusing talk which involved both birds and bees, but Dad couldn’t really remember what Grandad actually said.

Society had gotten more liberal by the time or was Dad’s turn to have the talk with me (1996 or so), so Dad was pretty forthright and straightforward about everything, though in retrospect it was probably still awkward for him. Still, I think that even in the late 90s my parents were unusually open; we were a bit unusual for only going to Mass occasionally rather than every Sunday. I remember the other kids at school constantly asking me how babies were made, but I’m pretty sure they just thought it was outrageous that I said “penis” and “vagina” instead of “willy” and “fanny”.

In Ireland Constitutional Amendments require a referendum to pass. It’s bizarre to me that other countries leave something so important in the hands of politicians.

Anecdotally, I’ve heard that trans people use it to buy hormones because HRT is usually not covered by national healthcare or insurance, so the people selling them aren’t doing so fully entirely technically legally.

Hand of there’s no way to do a national referendum how do they amend the Constitution?

I bet the Eurasians are the ones spreading the lies. There’s a reason we have always been at war with them.

He’s a massive fan if The Beatles. He has their entire discography on vinyl records in good condition. (He bought them in the 1970s; I don’t know if that is more or less impressive).

He also likes Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzie, and The Horslips. He has a bunch of their records, too. There’s also some Pink Floyd in there.

I was raised Catholic in Ireland. Catholics, like most Christians, tend to quietly ignore the church teachings they don’t like and emphasise the parts they do.

I just recently started watching Star Trek, and Kirk is very unlike the memes. The most noticeable thing is that, contrary to what TV and the Internet would have you believe, he talks like a normal human being.

As to why he is a good leader, he is competent and perceptive He always prioritises the health and safety of his crew even above his own.He never pursues romantic or sexual relations with crew members no matter how much he would like to, and takes reports of sexual harassment seriously (“Charlie X”). He doesn’t throw his weight around; while decisions are ultimately his to make, he listens to his subordinates and acts on their advice. He takes swift action, but only after diplomacy and negotiation have failed.

Cuir na cathaoireacha i gceann a chéile ar críoch an lá, le do thoil

(Irish)

Or magazines if you’re on mbin. I have no idea why.

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Samsung Galaxy Duos running iodéOS.

The Phoebus Cartel was objectively terrible, but it turns out there are perfectly good engineering reasons to limit them to 1000 hours. It has to do with the chemistry of tungsten. Those bulbs that last forever give off exceedingly little light, and the 1000 hour rule is from a standard that predates the cartel.

The Punisher is just The Executioner with the serial numbers filed off. Any given person is much more likely to have heard of The Punisher.

The very second sentence of that Wikipedia page says that common law is built on precedent.

OK, here’s a breakdown from me, a person who is not remotely a lawyer. I’ll be using the most common names for things; they might be called something different in your country.

The highest form of law is the Constitution. A Constitution is a sort of meta-law which defines what parliament can and can’t do. If a law contradicts the Constitution, it’s invalid. Because the Constitution is so important, changing it normally requires a referendum. Not every country has a Constitution; Britain is notorious for lacking one.

Below the Constitution is statute law. This is where the parliament writes a new law, which can and often does override existing law. The president (or monarch if your country really needs to get with the times) usually has the power to veto any act of parliament, but it’s vanishingly rare they will do so except in cases where the new law is unconstitutional.

Common law refers to clarifications on existing laws made by judges, who are supposed to be Lawful Neutral on such matters. For example, let’s say parliament successfully passed a law requiring people to wear hats outside. If I see my Sikh neighbour wearing a turban, I would report him to the cops for failure to wear a hat. In court, my neighbour’s lawyer argues that, based in IRS shape and function, a turban is a type of hat. The judge agrees, and rules that my neighbour did not violate the hat law, and so I need to pay all the legal fees.

Now, whenever somebody reports a Sikh for failure to wear a hat, lawyers will cite the case of Me vs My Neighbour, wherein it was determined that a turban counts as a hat. Precedent is important, because if we’re going to have laws, they are supposed to apply consistently to everybody. It’s no good if getting to wear a turban depends on the whim of the cops or the judge that day.

Parliament can, of course, change the rules by making a new law which defines ‘hat’ in such a way that does not include turbans. Under the new law, people could be prosecuted for wearing turbans without hats, if they do so after the new law comes into force.

The living space features three bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths and a detached guest house.

Price sounds about normal for San Francisco Bay. The more interesting question is why it has half a bath.