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That’s where the Door to Hell (Darvaza Gas Crater) is!

Yes. It’s extremely helpful when I’m doing a refactor and can just go TAB TAB TAB TAB Oops not that TAB TAB done. Saves me a lot of time with the boilerplate, but is very bad at the logic portions.

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It doesn’t make sense that this would backfire, because Trump and his supporters are perfectly capable of holding conflicting viewpoints like this.

It’s totally reasonable to expect that this would be morally reprehensible when Democrats do it, but reasonable and a smart business move when a Republican does it.

This is a great point, and one I overlooked. Thanks for sharing!

Well if the crops are going bad, you don’t need to hire the truckers to move the produce, you don’t need to hire the grocers to sell the produce, and you don’t need to hire the chefs to cook the produce.

The article doesn’t address this though, rather:

Job openings decreased in health care and social assistance by 181,000, in arts and entertainment by 62,000, and in mining and logging by 13,000.

Which doesn’t say that it’s directly related. Health care and entertainment jobs reducing is probably more indicative of Americans spending less on discretionary spending either because of economic hardship or the expectation of economic hardship.

Mining and logging losses could be tariff related, or possibly in response to softening demand for primary inputs.

Today down 1.37%, but up 7.14% overall for the week.

Current ICJ case: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/182

Putin claiming rights for all of Ukraine:

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-the-whole-ukraine-is-ours-theory-may-take-city-sumy-2025-06-20/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2025/6/27/putin-confirms-he-wants-all-of-ukraine-as-europe-steps-up-military-aid

General video on Russian war goals: https://youtu.be/MhpoNL1gZbw

Example of Ukrainians suffering under Russian leadership:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

The Russian war goals include an annexation of the entirety of Ukraine and a genocide of the entire Ukrainian populace.

I don’t think giving in to that will lead to less suffering, it will lead to dramatically more suffering.

I also love the erhu like the Butterfly Lover’s Concerto.

Harder words for charades tend to be abstract concepts because they are hard to figure out concrete geatures for.

Some of these words could be:

• Hierarchy
• Government
• Hypothesis
• Friendship

A great clue will be one that is difficult to guess at the time, but will be obvious in hindsight. Inside jokes from the group, or references that everyone in the group will know.

In terms of rules, typically the group will have a list of words to guess. These words could come from an online list or sources from the group (e.g. everyone playing writes 10 words on a slip of paper). The group is then typically split into teams.

During play, a player from a team will choose a word at random and then try to get their team to guess the word (no sounds or noises at all), within the time limit (typically a minute or less).

Play continues until a certain score is reached, the words run out, or players stop having fun.

Typical variations:

• Players have a set amount of time (e.g. 90 seconds) and try to get their team to guess as many words as possible in turn to allow for multiple points to be scored per round.
• A non-competitive version of the game can be played where there are no teams and no time limits.
• Opposing teams can guess the word as well and if they do the player’s team doesn’t score.

Notes & Tips:

• A common vocabulary has developed over time for certain concepts (e.g. “movie”, “book”, “# of syllables”). If you want to be competitive you can try to learn some these.
• Pointing at objects in the room to help your team guess is sometimes allowed and sometimes not.
• Try not to take it to seriously. It’s meant to be a fun way to socialize and interact with your friends / family, so teams or words will likely be unbalanced.

Hope this helps!