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As a life long englishman, this thread is the first time i've encounterd "gaol" as a word. Not an english spelling.


P G Wodehouse uses the term, I’m fairly sure.


Dictator. Kings have to abide by the law of parliment.

US newqs outlets seem to be afraid to call him a dictator. Maybe a king is more palateable.


Maybe that will change. Germany certianly has capability to manufacture nuclear armements. The UK may rejoin if the situation gets dire enough.


> Germany certianly has capability to manufacture nuclear armements

Yep, but as I mentioned below, that's not enough anymore.

Just about every major nuclear power (US, Russia, China, India, Israel) has a nuclear triad and second strike capabilities.

Just having nuclear weapons doesn't unlock that capability overnight.


> Maybe that will change. Germany certianly has capability to manufacture nuclear armements. The UK may rejoin if the situation gets dire enough.

Given the politics here, I don't see that happening. No nuclear reactors, even.

I won't be too surprised if Finland gets some, but I don't really know the full politics of the area, only that they have reactors and are concerned about Russia.

Poland might, but no earlier than 2030.

In Europe but not in the EU, Ukraine… entirely depends on if they think they have nothing left to lose. If it looks like Trump will sell them out and they don't think anyone else will pick up enough slack to keep them independent of Moscow, they may rush a development program.

I can easily believe that Ukraine would try to hire any of these workers. No reason to think any of these workers would be interested, but I can see Ukraine trying.


But that is directly due to the level of death. We have no evidence that half of the tribes in an area were wiped out.


Like the belters in The Expanse.


Yet I can still download music. Check mate.


I'll bet the guy who bought a pizza for 100 bitcoin back in 2014 feels pretty stupid now.


If that is your attitude to security scanning, you should not be in charge of anything more important than a speak and spell.


Seriously? Treating joke CVEs the same as true sev 1 issues is beyond silly and counter productive. There are very real limits to time, money and attention and pretending otherwise is foolish.


The person you’re replying to seems to agree with you.


wd-40 is not a lubricant. Stop using it as one. You're just making the problem worse. Use lubricating oils.


Put some wd-40 on your bike's brakes and see if you think it's not a lubricant.

Maybe you think it's not a _good_ lubricant? But a lot of its use is to extract stuck things which requires a thin lubricant


> Maybe you think it's not a _good_ lubricant? But a lot of its use is to extract stuck things which requires a thin lubricant

The word you are looking for is “penetrating oil”. The problem with a too broad definition of “lubricant” is that I wouldn’t use Coca Cola to lube my engine or KY Jelly to lube my bike chain. WD-40 is a shitty lubricant for metal-on-metal moving parts, so it’s helpful in that context to say that it isn’t a lubricant.


Over 1/3 of WD-40 is made of a lubricant. My salad dressing is over 1/3 oil. Does that make it lubricant, or is it actually still salad dressing?


Not sure who's arguing what and on what side here but when making a sandwich, adding dressing or oil to the sandwich is often referred to as "adding a lubricant" to the sandwich.


Third option: It's possible for salad dressings to be lubricants.


It may temporarily act like a lubricant, but we typically expect lubricants to last longer than a month or so, and WD-40 does not. It's meant as a solvent, and can be followed up with an actual lubricant.


> we typically expect lubricants to last longer than a month or so, and WD-40 does not

Neither does KY and yet here we are.

While WD40 wasn't designed as a lubricant it does function as one.

People using heavy equipment often grease their machines daily but no one claims grease isn't a lubricant.

I have to put bar oil in my chain saw every time I use it, and often have to refill it during the day. Is that not a lubricant?


But you are aware and know that you have to reapply KY every time you want to deal with some ... em... tight situations. And after you're done, you intentionally wash it off, because you don't want those places to be lubricated during non-active times.

But a bike chain is a thing that you want lubricated for a long time, and not have to think about lube every time you want to use it (well.. in a normal, bike-driving way). Is it still lubed? Did it rain the last time you drove a bike? When was the last time you lubed it? Some other lubricant would last much longer and lubricate much better, and with a bike chain, lasting many months is good thing.

That's why we have and use different kind of lubricants for different things, and WD40 is not a "good choice" for most of the stuff some people use it for (like bike chains... or anal).


The point is, different lubricants have a different effective time.

As I said: a chainsaw is constantly adding lubricant to the bar. Meanwhile the swing I built for my son had white lithium sprayed on it and still doesn't make a sound, after full exposure to 3 monsoonal wet seasons.


People use WD-40 for anal?



What else are you going to use to penetrate the joint and loosen up seized nuts?

I'll see myself out.


What’s a good lubricant for metal on metal (aluminum in specific)?


Tri-flow. Also good as a penetrating oil, and smells like bananas.


It also has a lot of teflon.


wd-40 brand makes several lubricants now


Ask the Brits.


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