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Oddly enough it's a total coincidence that they are homonyms. The plant's name comes from the Latin name for turnip, rapum

The Expanse has the justification of it meaning that they don't have to deal with representing long hair in microgravity situations, but they still have variety like Camina Drummer's ultra-tight braids and Naomi's curls which solve the problem without everyone having a crew cut

Vines' version of MGMT's Kids

Her style is a super stripped-down one with almost all instrumentation just being her voice through a vocoder. This cover includes a bit more traditional instrumentation than usual for her work, but it's still quite stark next to the original. It comes across as very pensive, which I think works nicely with the lyrics

Weather was glorious for it. I've been out of action over the winter but I'm itching to get my boots on again

Was at a cèilidh last night, had a cracking time. Long-buried memories of school PE came rushing back to the surface in the first two bars of each dance. I made a terrible choice of footwear though, I was skating about like a dog on ice

There's absolute heaps of wild garlic down by the river near me, so I might go do some foraging. I just need to double-check my reading because while the garlic smell is powerful, there are a couple of very similar-looking plants that grow in the same places and are poisonous

I have the slimmest of hopes that Nigel Farage's choice to attach himself to Trump will do Reform lasting damage. Fortunately we've got a good while before the next election

I wouldn't expect them to ever actually run out. As stocks go down they will reduce usage until production/purchases can cover it. That reduction is still good for Ukraine, of course

If Germany isn't doing it on its own terms then it's not Germany doing it, is it? Not only can Germany do it on its own terms, it only matters if Germany does it on its own terms.

Regardless, the responsibility Germany has does not entail giving Russia propaganda fodder for its own imperialism. That helps literally nobody.

In the source article OP has linked elsewhre in these comments, the author notes that the first image is their own measurement and the second and third are David Chandler's. I don't know of Chandler myself but the article is clearly heabily inspired by him. I assume there was some kind of difference in methodology that produced the different values, like one of them was measuring the tape while it was un-tensioned and the other was doing geometry to get the length of the tensioned tape or something

The people that committed the crimes of Nazi Germany are dead, and good riddance to them. Modern Germany is doing the right thing by commemorating their defeat. They can do that on their own terms in their own country. People don't get to just do whatever they want in Germany on the basis of being from a country that suffered under the Nazis.

Nobody is asking Nechayev to make a speech, but nobody is asking him to attend either and he still plans to do that. Nechayev described this commemoration as “part of the path to our reconciliation”, so he clearly thinks of it as something Germany should be doing in order to be friendlier with Russia despite Russia's actions

Isn't that exactly the kind of "when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit" that you were advocating for?

The biggest fusion reactor in the world is being built in France right now, with the EU as the leading funder