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Wait, when was it an independent Chagossian state?

Wait, people actually avoid Australia because of it? I mean, I do think of Australian wildlife as dangerous, but to me that means "don't fuck about" rather than "don't go at all". And I live in the UK, where we killed everything that was even slightly dangerous to humans long ago

Ahh okay, that makes sense. Thank you!

Most of my brewing is for beer, so I have heaps of 500ml bottles that I use to make cuts, thankfully. I don't actually own any tools to properly measure the content of spirits, though. I'm currently going on "is it flammable" and "what does it taste/smell like". If I can actually get into it a bit more I'll invest in the gear, but I feel like I need to get over the mental block first

I appreciate the advice though. It's good to have some reassurance, because man it just fucking sucks to wait weeks to brew something and then totally fuck up the distillation. What's the thinking behind covering the jars with a paper towel rather than just the lid of the jar (or the stopper of the bottle, in my case)?

Spain is in the top ten of global arms industry exports. Airbus Military is headquartered in Madrid

80% of Israeli Jews were born in Israel, they do not have an "actual home" to go back to

This one always makes me smile, because it's from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It's just some guy's blog in which he comes up with new words to express experiences and emotions that are difficult to describe, and that specific one has thoroughly broken containment

I made AltGr + / type an interrobang so I'd always have access to it

I do really worry that America would put boots on the ground in the event of an open Iran-Israel war. Especially if Iran starts winning.

I have finished the brewing stage of what will hopefully be my first gin and now need to gather up the mental fortitude to stare at a thermometer for several hours and potentially ruin all the prior work. I'm not very good at distillation yet.

They spent a fifth of their sovereign wealth fund covering their budget deficit last year, I'm not sure that Russia has the capacity to scale things up

Presumably you downloaded Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC), which I still had to do to make a custom keyboard layout in 2022. Funnily enough I was also wanting to use AltGr to add diacritics to vowels, because I don't want to have to go to the backtick key for àèìòù