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Just want to alert you to someone hacking your account and posting analogies so awful a five year old could see through them. Hope you can fix this breach soon! Good luck!

Why don't you fuck off to Russia and enjoy the delights of their state media. Stop dragging this topic into irrelevance. If you've got an axe to grind, make your own thread. We don't need your bile making a difficult subject more difficult to navigate. You are making this thread stink of red herrings.

... and Mistermack might have it backwards. The rich get the gravy and avoid incarceration; the poor get the blame and go to jail.

The above comments give good advice, here's my attempt to give a bit more. The fan belt should be checked as above, but if you hear an unusual squealing noise coming from the engine, usually when you rev the engine from tickover, then that's an extra clue that it needs attention. I use the lights as exchemist advises, but if you look carefully, a good altenator usually brightens the lights when you rev it, and dims slightly when you let the revs drop back down to tickover, so in that case, you can see it's charging, and don't need to turn off the engine. With a volt meter, (surest method) you will get about 12.5 volts with the engine off, 12.8 with it ticking over, and about 13.3 when revving the engine. (all variable) so if you get a constant 12 to 12.5 when off, and the same or less when running, then it's not charging. If you find it IS charging, but the battery is flat in the morning, you have a current leak somewhere. A way to test for that, is to charge the battery, then turn every electrical item off, and disconnect the positive terminal at night. If the battery is good in the morning when you reconnect it, it's likely that the battery has been slowly leaking charge overnight. A friend of mine found that a usb connection to his dash camera had been doing that, flattening the battery overnight.

We wouldn't be lobbing missiles at Mexican hospitals, rolling tanks against Mexican villages and destroying the residential buildings of non-combatants while people were still inside, having our soldiers rape Mexican women with hands bound in zip ties, nor would we be murdering them and leaving their bodies and the bodies of their children to rot in the streets.

Well, he's one to talk! The man who terrorized two continents, razed 3 cities of civilizations more advanced than his own, devastated another 70, assassinated rivals, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians, committed half a dozen genocides, enslaved, displaced and impoverished huge swatches of population that were never a threat to him. Yeah, apathy is the answer to that, just as it is to Putin.

To add to Mistermack's excellent advice ... Lead-acid cells have a potential of 2.1 volts. so six cells in a car battery will give you 12.6 volts ( slightly more, like 12.8 V , due to 'surface charge on a fully charged battery. If your voltmeter reads 10.5 V , one of your cells is shot and you need to replace the battery. If the engine is running, the alternator will supply about 10% higher voltage to charge the battery, so you should see about 14 C on your voltmeter. If you only see about 12.6 V , you are seeing just battery voltage as the alternator is not supplying any, and you need to replace the alternator ( typical failure mode is shorted diodes ).

John Fewster, a country doctor, noticed farmers who had had cowpox seemed immune to smallpox. Though his accounts were largely ignored, Edward Jenner heard them from the physician brothers to whom he was apprenticed (and who had met with Fewster) and years later developed a vaccine with Fewster's observations in mind. Jenner then was credited with the now debunked lovely milkmaid story by a biographer eager to glorify Jenner as a singular genius struck by an epiphany. And there was Albert Hoffman, the chemist working on ergot derivatives and their efficacy for inducing uterine contraction, who found himself tripping one afternoon in his laboratory at Sandoz. The derivative in question was the 25th he had synthesized, hence called LSD-25.

It's a very flawed argument, so it's more likely it was ignored because of that. Watch the video again, and realize she keeps referring to "NATO expansion", as if they're actively recruiting member states. That's disinformation, and fosters the Putin viewpoint that an aggressor is threatening. That's not the unvarnished truth you seem to think it is. I'd love to hear from some of our Indian members to see what they think about WION. To me, it seems like cheap propaganda claiming to be fair and balanced. In truth, NATO is an attractive alliance for many former Soviet territories looking to form democracies, or anyone looking for collective security to protect from greedy neighbors. What Putin (and the disinformation journalist in your video) fear is that the contrast between Russian dictatorship and NATO democracies is becoming ever more apparent, and making NATO look especially good by comparison. So tell me, do you think Mexico should invade the US because they're NATO members and so many Mexicans are applying for US citizenship? Mexico used to own parts of this country too. Is this an example of American/NATO expansionism, where we conquer them by being a more desirable place to live?

That is also a classic example, but in some ways it was also a very classic approach. Fleming sorted through petri-dishes and found that plates with mould there were clear zones. From there he formed the hypothesis that something was there inhibiting bacterial growth. On the one hand the plates probably not prepared with the express intention to identify inhibiting compounds, yet the first observation led more or less straight to the correct hypothesis. It goes to what I was thinking earlier, whether discoveries are truly serendipitous or whether it is more or less just the way it works.

Top marks for using a YT video... not. You need to stay away from QA sites. NATO and our MOD is releasing daily intelligence commentary, which they often corroborate with evidence, which can also be corroborated by MSM, and you're calling it 'spin'? You seem to have an axe to grind.

Somewhat off topic, but ... Makes one wonder why you complain about politics and politicians, when you can't be bothered to help weed-out the bad ones, and encourage the good ones, with your vote.

Russian State TV apparently (have posted this elsewhere, but I think it deserves sharing)

Personally... I couldn't give a shit, I don't want anything. I was just saying, as it seems to me some people are focusing on the joke as if to justify Will's actions. It was a crap joke and a bit insensitive, but not so bad it deserved a slap.

Speaking of Star Trek .... Back when it was a little more realistic, and all aliens weren't a variation of bipedal humans with differing 'bumps' applied to their foreheads, they had the Horta, a silicon cycle based life form from the planet Janus VI, that could tunnel through solid rock ( ST:OS, Devil in the Dark, season 1 episode 25 ). They had immaterial beings that could control energy, and lizard aliens, like the Metron and the Gorn ( ST:OS, Arena, season 1 episode 18 ) And even Data was self aware, intelligent and could reproduce ( ST:TNG, the Offspring, season 3 episode 16 )

Spot on imo...the Moon causes the high tide closest to it by attracting the water, and then attracting Earth itself so that high tides also occur on the opposite side. Some effect, but minimal at this time. And of course just as the Moon was much closer to Earth in the past, so to will it be much further away in the future, moving at a rate of a couple of cms a year. It (the Moon) is also via the friction of the tides, causing the Earth's revolution about its axis to slow. This will continue until a day on Earth is equal to a lunar month. and Earth will have one side permantly facing the Moon, just as the Moon has one side facing Earth. None of this is due though, for at least a couple of billion years.

Six of one half dozen of the other much?

I had a recent initiation that was literally gruel-ing, when my wife initiated me into the dark underworld of chocolate malto-meal.

A Vortex Aurora over Iceland Image Credit & Copyright: Christophe Suarez Explanation: No, the car was not in danger of being vacuumed into space by the big sky vortex. For one reason, the vortex was really an aurora, and since auroras are created by particles striking the Earth from space, they do not create a vacuum. This rapidly developing auroral display was caused by a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun that passed by the Earth closely enough to cause a ripple in Earth's magnetosphere. The upper red parts of the aurora occur over 250 kilometers high with its red glow created by atmospheric atomic oxygen directly energized by incoming particles. The lower green parts of the aurora occur over 100 kilometers high with its green glow created by atmospheric atomic oxygen energized indirectly by collisions with first-energized molecular nitrogen. Below 100 kilometers, there is little atomic oxygen, which is why auroras end abruptly. The concentric cylinders depict a dramatic auroral corona as seen from the side. The featured image was created from a single 3-second exposure taken in mid-March over Lake Myvatn in Iceland.

That is the $64,000,000 question!

Another piece of technicolor nature: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cano-cristales From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caño_Cristales

Children's shows usually condemn slapping. (Unless an old lady is slapping Rainbow Dash, in which case it's played for laughs because an old lady is doing it. And also, because she was shoved by Rainbow Dash across the street against her will; albeit on the false premise that she wanted to cross the street; not sure if that makes it self-defense.) A beloved celebrity slapping a not-as-beloved celebrity (well, at least beforehand) and not only going unprosecuted for it but having multiple public figures imply it's acceptable to use violence over words is going to make teachers' jobs a lot more difficult in the coming days, if not weeks. Just imagine the scenario. "But Miss! He made a joke about her baldness! If Will Smith can slap people for that, why can't I?"

I never mentioned Texas. If you look back, you'll see I spoke about the UK and Roman Abramovitch. Texas deports law-breaking immigrants. The UK deports virtually nobody, and takes years over it. If you want to criticise such claims, do get it right. https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/jul/22/murder-snatch-beshenivsky-pc https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9501233/bulgarian-romanian-dipper-gangs-pickpocketing/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7668605/Woman-raped-Somali-migrant-tells-anguish-UK.html

Yeh, but it's one law for the rich, and another for the poor. 😄 Roman Abramovitch came to the UK, bought Chelsea Football Club, spent billions building it up into the top club in the whole world, and they jump on his assets without even trial. Meanwhile, people come from the gutter in Somalia, Eritrea and Lithuania, bring nothing with them, and they rape, rob and murder, and we shower them with lawyers, psychiatrists and benfits. It's always the poor what gets the gravy, and the rich what gets the blame !

And Americans. Blow them up, for Hiroshima. And Germans. Starve them to death for Auschwitz. And the Irish. Blast them, for Mountbatten. And kill all the whites in South Africa. And the Welsh. For being Welsh. Makes a lot of sense.

That's the stock argument, but it doesn't work both ways does it? When Cuba exercised it's autonomy, the USA threatened a nuclear world war three, and forced most of the world to impose sanctions on them for fifty years. I asked some time ago, what do you think the USA would do, if Mexico was arranging to join in a mutual anti-USA military pact with China and Russia, and nobody had an anwer. Because everybody knows that the USA military would be down Mexico way like a shot, and all autonomy would be forgotten in an instant.

No? It was good enough for Iraq. Horrendous stuff done by the US. I'm sure Mexico would "have" weapons of mass destruction. They would construct their excuses.