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It does lubricate, but it's not as effective as dedicated lubricants.

Works fine for me without logging in in a quick test (from the US).

So you're telling me that I abstained from Taco Bell's Crunchwrap Supreme for nothing?

It has some defederations, albeit not many.

You can view them at:

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I honestly don't know why the GOP are attacking mail-in ballots.

It looks like it's more-or-less a wash in historical data:

https://politicalscience.byu.edu/2020/08/28/do-republicans-or-democrats-benefit-from-mail-in-voting-it-turns-out-neither-three-decades-of-voting-history-reveals-vote-by-mail-does-not-give-either-party-an-edge/

Do Republicans or Democrats benefit from mail-in voting? It turns out, neither: Three decades of voting history reveals vote-by-mail does not give either party an edge

You might be able to intimidate voters or pull some other stunts locally that you cna't do remotely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon

Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ˈɛr.ɛ.hwɒn/, ERR-eh-hwon)[2] is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]

In Erewhon, illness is crime and crime is illness. As a result, citizens are imprisoned for offenses like physical ailments, misfortune, or ugliness while those who commit conventional crimes like fraud or theft are seen more sympathetically as exhibiting symptoms of moral afflictions and prescribed sessions with a "straightener" (essentially a psychologist) for treatment.[5]

Big events like that are not about profit though. They're really about buying prestige, which remains more valuable than profit.

Ehh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Correctional_Institution,_Ray_Brook

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee needed congressional approval for funding to build an Olympic Village for the 1980 Winter Olympics. Congress required an after-use contract for facilities, and Lake Placid's congressman Robert C. McEwen considered the possibilities of having it be repurposed as housing, a hospital, or a permanent athletic facility, but these plans all failed to materialize. As McEwen searched for possibilities, he learned that Norman Carlson of the Federal Bureau of Prisons has congressional approval to build a prison in the Northeastern United States. It was ultimately agreed to create the Village with the goal of repurposing it as a prison.[1][2]

At the time of construction, the Olympic Village had 937 small cells, each holding between 2 and 4 athletes. The majority of rooms had one barred window, although some had no windows at all, and they had heavy steel doors with peepholes for use by guards after conversion to a functional prison. The Village was surrounded by concentric chain fences. The fences were sensitized and sounded alarms if touched. The only entrance to the village was a surveilled double gate. The village saw widespread condemnation from International Olympic Committees, and multiple countries sought to rent housing in other locations. While National Olympic Committees typically need to pay on their own if they choose to find new accommodation, IOC Director Monique Berlioux said, "This time the accommodations are so poor that delegations will not have to pay for them if they move somewhere else."[3]

The delegations of Sweden, Italy, Austria, East Germany, West Germany, and other countries sought alternative accommodations. This created an unexpected boom in the local real estate market, increasing rent in some areas from US$200 (equivalent to $781.5 in 2025) to US$4,000 (equivalent to $15,630 in 2025).

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It sounds like they have gender-segregated seating on public transport.

https://anjo.pt/travel/2023/11/24/extra-post-navigating-gender-lines-turkeys-quirky-public-transport-rules/

Hey travelers! Ever booked a seat on public transport and had to specify your gender? Well, welcome to Turkey! In this unique travel experience, seating next to someone of the opposite sex is a bit of a no-no, unless you book together.

Trains: Clear as Day

Turkey’s train system doesn’t beat around the bush. Try booking seats next to someone of the opposite sex, and bam! You’re hit with a clear message saying, “Not allowed.” They’re serious about keeping guys and gals in their separate travel lanes.

Buses: No Mix and Match

Now, buses take it up a notch. Most systems won’t even let you book seats next to the opposite sex. No ifs, ands, or buts. It’s a full-on restriction. Talk about keeping things strictly platonic on the road!

Sure, some argue it’s about passenger comfort and safety. But seems not everyone’s on board with this gender-segregated journey. Critics say it’s a buzzkill for personal freedom. Solo travelers, especially those outside traditional gender norms, might find it a tad awkward or downright frustrating.

Officials said the man also insulted federal police officers during questioning. According to authorities, he made the remarks in Turkish without realizing that one of the interviewing officers understood the language.

I mean, even aside from that, I suspect that they're probably wearing bodycams...

If the European welfare state looks like a pyramid scheme, its pharaohs are the “baby-boomers”. The bumper generation born in the two decades after 1945, aged roughly between 60 and 80 (Hello Mum! Hi Dad!), would like to go down in history as the first in centuries not to have started a war pitting one bit of the continent against another.

I mean...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

Born: 7 October 1952 (age 73)

Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Like, it's in Eastern Europe rather than Western Europe, but it's pretty hard to not call that a pretty substantial war in Europe.

Samsung is one of the Big Three memory manufacturers. Samsung's phone division had some news articles talkimg about how they couldn't get Samsung's memory division to give them privileged access, even.

(Though for context, about two years earlier, when there was a glut of memory and Samsung's memory division was losing money, they apparently went to the Samsung phone division and tried to get them to buy a bunch of the excess, which I suppose would have meant putting more memory in their phones than would have been optimal. The phone division told them no way.)

And now it's the phone division losing money and the memory division making a ton of money.

https://www.megamobilecontent.com/news/2026/07/17/samsung-phone-division-first-loss-memory-prices/

Samsung's mobile division may have posted its first-ever quarterly loss in Q2 2026, despite strong Galaxy S26 sales and record-breaking profits for Samsung Electronics overall.

The culprit is memory. DRAM prices have reportedly surged roughly 850% year-over-year, driven by insatiable demand from AI server infrastructure. Samsung's semiconductor division is reaping the benefits, but its mobile division is paying the bill.