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Turns out they were just fascists who will say whatever they think will gain them the most power in any particular situation, and they never actually cared about anything but that power.

Now that going after pedophiles doesn't get them power, they don't care. But don't worry, they'll revive that rhetoric when they decide it's time to go after "groomers" (ie LGBTQ people)

You're almost certainly correct, but fascism doesn't follow logic. It's merely seeks power. Even if giving up the tiniest bit of power would be a better strategy, fascism will eventually try to grab that power back.

NGL I'm not very familiar with the technical details, but I know quartz is pretty temperature sensitive and starts to get damaged about 400F iirc

It's possible special conditions are needed to really succeed, like low/no oxygen or a long duration at a lower temperature.

But theoretically, the answer to your question is "yes"

Fascism craves power. The mere existence of a second party is a threat to that power, even if it's an unrealized threat. But the potential is still there. Fascism will always seek to create a single-party state for this reason.

Diamonds aren't stable and will eventually, over billions of years, decompose from their cubic molecular structure to carbon's more stable form, graphite, which has a hexagonal molecular structure.

Oh, here's another good gemstone related one!

Amethyst and citrine are both quartz varieties, and if the color source happens to be from traces of iron in the crystal lattice, one can be turned into the other. Heating amethyst can make citrine, and irradiating citrine can turn it into amethyst. This is because the only actual difference between the two is the valiance level of a specific election in the iron atom giving the stone its color.

Up vote.

The word "currency" is used interchangeably with "money" but it's actually a lot more specific. "Currency" is money that is "current" not in the sense of time ("here/now") but in flow, like a river.

When there isn't enough money to flow through an economy, it stops being "currency"and gets abandoned in favor of something else that can sufficiently fulfill the role of money in the economy.

So you're absolutely right. When that fiscal river dries up, the American dollar will become worthless. History shows that something else will fill the gap, but those sorts of transitions take a long time and aren't without their human cost.

You make some perfectly valid points, the only thing I take issue with is

Money is actually pretty useless

So, I do historical reenactment and one of my focuses is the history of money. Money has been in use, in some form or another, all over the world, for about ten thousand years. Roughly twice as long as written language.

Again, I agree with what you're saying about time and how important it is. But go back to when humans had huge swaths of free time and you still find money. It's just INSANELY useful.

Bladderworts have medicinal uses.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3353273/

3.2. Potential as Medicinal Crop Utricularia is recorded to be edible and high in nutrients. Some species used as folk remedies are mildly astringent and diuretic. U. caerulea is used to dress wounds while U. bifida is used to treat urinary diseases. Although yet to be widely researched, the medicinal potential of this species-rich genus is immense. In Peninsular Malaysia, U. bifida and U. minutissima are pioneers of open disturbed wetland and are often locally abundant, although U. caerulea is increasingly rare. U. bifida is highly suited for acidic damp soils. Neither chemical nor organic fertilisation is necessary. It can be cultivated without having to modify bad drainage or liming the soil to increase pH, therefore, it is a suitable alternative for small-scale herb cultivation on nutrient-poor, waterlogged soils.

I mean, I do believe in the power of friendship.

But yeah international law is a joke.

Russia is very good at maintaining plausible deniability for things like this. Like the polonium in the tea. Everybody knows, but there's no proof that Russia was behind it, which makes it harder to take action over it.

Why would Russia put itself at risk by directly taking out an under cover CIA agent when they can just publicly reveal the agent's identity and let things take care of themselves?

Right? Headline should really read "Trump admits Epstein list is real, defends some of the people on it."

In my previous comment "good" is synonymous with "least bad" which apparently isn't obvious enough despite my previous clarification about the world not being black & white.

So no, when faced with multiple options, all of them bad, picking the least bad option ISN'T the same as picking the most bad option and therefore a person picking the least bad option can't reasonably be "shit on"