StringJunky

My guess is a settlement is an informal grouping of dwellings that were a precursor to the formation of villages

Given that the US has been hostile to the Nordstream pipelines, could it possibly be them sabotaging?

I thought it coincidental that another pipeline has just come online.

That's a linguistic rabbit hole we don't need to go down.

A sardonically amusing piece from the Moscow Times:

@iNowYes, draft-avoiding has been endemic from what I've been reading, and mostly from the far-flung areas. I've been reading the MoscowTimes, which has more local knowledge of events there, and it's saddening to read the experiences of people being drafted and trying to avoid it. They are just grabbing who they can and the draft wording is apparently deliberately vague to allow the number to be raised. Surrendering is now, or will be, punishable with 10-15 years imprisonment. That could work in Ukraine's favour in time. Now that Muscovites and those from other major cities are liable for draft, things may well start getting internally divisive for the Kremlin. I hope so.

Well, that's a first... you are never not sure. I didn't want a whole course about female pay inequality. Thanks. Even my tutor thought course designers had pushed the subject too much.

I only brought that up because I suffered a maths course that used gender pay inequalities as illustrations in an OU course. I agree though, materials should represent those reading it, if it's appropriate.

I have to say that putting politically-charged subjects into class lessons that don't require them does annoy me. When one starts sliding such materials into coursework, it smacks of indoctrination.

Looks like there was a bit of a rush to get out the country and avoid call up. There's few flights out now and tickets are like 2 grand if you can get one.

Another one 'fell from a great height' yesterday:

Death.

Putin has declared partial mobilisation; he wants 300 000 more fighting. 300 000, with two weeks training... what can go wrong?

No ambiguity now:

I thought it worked by disrupting the cell walls. As an aside: Adding 10% water also apparently increases the penetration depth before disruption occurs.... 90% is better than 100% in that use.

Yes, the only way is down.

I hear he's ordered a 32ft table to replace the 16ft table...

My guess is 'carried away'.

My feeling is that Russia is going to be floundering very shortly unless they call a national mobilisation. I read some days ago from comments by military analysts that they need at least a million combat-capable personnel to see out their objectives. Every Ukrainian locality they take, they have to leave some behind to hold that fort before moving on to the next, The transfer of people from the east to the south recently has highlighted this issue.

Yeah, of course it was. We can trust the Russians to do a transparent referendum. Wake up. This has been a regular theme in my readings.

Her official name is Elizabeth Regina and she always signed off 'Elizabeth R'. That is 'Elizabeth Queen' translated. 'Her Majesty' is just like 'Mr' or 'Mrs' for us. You need to consider the cost of replacement logistically, materially and socially of moving to a republic setup.

The flow is running all over the aircraft exterior, so it's reversed , the pressure direction is inwards instead of outwards. They will never fly upwards because there's another molecule above that one. The laminar flow will follow the contour of the aerofoil. You need to think of the air as a smooth fluid because the air molecules are reacting in concert and not in isolation.

Why does, it seems, everything have to go to court before a legislature can execute policy in the US? It seems to me the Judges are more powerful than the politicians and it's they, due to their accepted expressed political bias, de facto run the country?