OP must follow Rox News.

If somehow there is fraud, then it won’t be like Jan 6.

Looks like chicken mole. Hope to try it sometime (maybe at a more simple restaurant).

A lot of heat and a lot of pressure would be a start, but then there’s a time factor as well. The heat and pressure mess around with the rocks mineral constituents, but the real “magic” begins as those minerals start recrystallizing. In time (geologic time) that recrystallization makes a much harder rock.

I honestly don’t know if the process can be sped up. I’m thinking of something like firing bricks, but bricks are made with specific ingredients and certain impurities are specifically excluded because they hurt the manufacturing. When you start with shale, lord knows what mother nature threw into that specific specimen and how she arranged it.

I guess the easiest way to get shale harder might be to crush it finely, mix it with water and bake it. If you’re lucky the clay minerals will find each other and form a strong matrix. It wouldn’t be slate, or even a rock anymore, but bricks are handy sometimes.

Shale is not a good building material, it’s too friable (crumbly). Slate starts off as the same rock ans shale except it undergoes a bunch of heat and pressure which makes it much less friable and an excellent material for things like roofing tiles and mantles.

The Marriotts. Not huge fans of alcohol.

We all are. It’s one of the bonds that keeps civilization alive. Keep searching !

That’s what the three shells are for.

iNaturalist is definitely a good suggestion, but it is NOT an assassin bug, wrong markings and body form. It looks to be in the genus Alysus. Here’s what iNaturalist gave me as a likely hit. Also, I’d recommend the Seek app (it’s associated with iNaturalist) over iNaturalist app for casual users as it gives quick likely identifications through real-time image matching and does not require engaging the broader iNaturalist community.

Sorry, I don’t have experience with Far Cry.

Yes, it looks like a great game but I haven’t been able to spend much time with it. The graphics are top notch and the environment is rich and fun to explore. Lots of action and time to explore as well. There’s a lot going on in the gameplay that makes it fun but has slowed my learning curve. One small annoyance has been the auto save though. I have gotten sent back farther in my progression after dying than I would have liked. So it’s a good game so far. Hopefully I will make some time to play it more.

Cool. Ingredients please.

It’s a fish bone, but not sure what species or part of the skeleton. I’ve seen many on beaches around the Gulf of Mexico.

Getting started with Avatar and will probably also revisit one of the Horizons again for the ?? time.

It was based on good old fate and transport processes and plenty of scientific data (as opposed to made up hearsay?). It served us well for that sucky situation we were in. .

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pha-guidance/conducting_scientific_evaluations/exposure_pathways/environmental_fate_and_transport.html

Long press on a .gif brings up a menu with “save to photos “ and “share” (I don’t remember the 3rd menu item but didn’t seem relevant to your question anyway) those give you some options for saving. I just verified on iPadOS but should hold for iOS too.

Hope this helps.

I hear you. My dad was a menudo making wizard. If you think the finished dish smells bad, you’d hate it being cooked. We had a burner in the garage specifically so that dad could cook menudo outside of the house. Everyone loved the finished product. l didn’t really start to like it until my teenage years and now I can’t get enough. I guess it reminds me of dad.

A nice bowl of menudo is the magic cure down here. It coats your stomach and helps you rehydrate. It’s especially therapeutic if you’ve grow up with the stuff and have mentally accepted it is a cure.

C/soil science is a great community with well laid out general soil science information. What a great resource!

I for one appreciate the effort someone(s) put into it.

The Ukrainian space program finally reveals itself.