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Oh, back in the day, Christians did plenty of Fatwa equivalents. That's how you got the Inquisition threatening Galileo with torture, the Albigensian Crusade, the Hussite Wars, and so on. Not done much in the violence sense since 1648, but only because the bloodshed got bad enough, EUROPE shuddered.
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A pile of bloody fish guts would probably be a preferable legislature to the current Congressional majority. It would still refuse to stop Trump, but it wouldn't have a nontrivial chunk of itself actively trying to make things even WORSE and out-Trump Trump.
What is an Orogenous Zone?
The TV series season based on that book is even less like the book than the Harrison Ford movie was, and that one had to be chopped to ribbons because the Pentagon refused to cooperate with the production, claiming no US military personnel would do the stuff seen in the plot.
...on both sides of the family who lived on farms who sold weed. One from an older generation than I, one from the next younger. Only drug habit I ever picked up was menthol cigarettes, I don't even drink alcohol, and I'm currently 7 months clean on tobacco.
I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood deep in Chicago (it's now gentrified up the wazoo). I wouldn't know where to get drugs if I wanted them, didn't know anyone who used. I had to go to College with guys from rich suburbs and small towns to run into dealers and users, and I have relatives...
Some users temporarily go without until they can raise the funds to pay the higher prices, or get caught doing petty crime to get money and end up in jail, where their access to drugs is even more limited, but many still manage it somehow.
Cigarettes are rare if you're underage and there are limited places you can buy them. Addictive drugs have inflexible demand, is what I was trying to say. Supply restrictions raise the price...that's needed to encourage more to be made or smuggled in to restore supply levels at a higher price.
Making addictive drugs rarer and thus more expensive does not reduce drug use or demand, it increases petty crime to fund drug habits and violence to protect drug profits. Ask any teenager who ever stole money from Mom's purse or Dad's wallet to buy cigarettes.
The fact that Trump has the morals, manners, and intellect of a spoiled, antisocial tween who's seen too many action movies and too few history documentaries, is why we used to talk about, and put our hopes in, the "Adults in the Room". But the Adults have been kicked out and the kids taken over.
It's literally the thing that Jack Ryan catches the evil President doing and puts a stop to in Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger". Yes, it's very illegal. Yes, it's technically an act of war. No, it's not a good Drugs Policy, even if 12yo me thought it might be when I read the book.
So, someone read Tom Clancy's "Clear and Present Danger" and didn't understand that shoot-first-question-never intercepts of drug smugglers were what the *badguys* called a Drug Policy? Or do they think the only problem with Operation Reciprocity was that they got caught, and Trump has immunity?
Pritzker doesn't do stuff like this...himself. He just occasionally drops hints in his speeches that he's aware about his online fans and their Great Khan memes and finds it amusing.
It's not like every married couple agrees on politics. Look at James Carville and Mary Matalin, or George and Kellyanne Conway.
Oh, they did. And at the Alaska summit, Putin showed Trump his pics of Trump and underage girls from the Epstein files, and reminded Trump to be a good little FSB asset and keep destroying America and abandoning Ukraine.
Ya know who are only good at smashing stuff up?
Oh good, I thought that was just *my* feed for some bizarre reason.
Delight the Terpsichorean Muse with your Kung-Fu fisticuffs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EOc...
And this one is both a great song and somehow predicted Twitter, I think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuH0...
Medical scans indicate elevated levels of fear hormones in a majority of onlookers.
Technically, it's an English guy playing a Belgian as a French stereotype. It's Ethnic Slurception.
He's asking the Supreme Court to reverse its previous position and ban Tay Marriage.
I'd be more worried if he actually put a mask on.
All its ALF Hog? I know @theolalfer.bsky.social is a popular account, but didn't realize he was THAT much of an icon of BlueSky.
Sartre would disagree and say that Hell is Other People. But then, all his friends were French.
Always a good sign to see him in a film's cast. Even managed to brighten up the Twilight Movies for a little bit. Fantastic in Dances With Wolves and Maverick. He will be missed.
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Are we sure that's a pic of Lovecraft and not a Mark Zuckerberg's face after hearing that his company is being hit with *another* anti-trust lawsuit? And how did you resist making a lady-fingers reference on the Tiramisu entry?
He obviously meant they have no *full-time* duty executioner. Of course you gotta hire temporary help around the Holidays, to deal with the holiday crowds.
The duty torturer becomes the duty executioner when he gets sloppy. Luckily, our guy is skilled and conscientious and attentive to his work. I hear he even whistles happy little tunes while he works his magic. I dunno myself, I couldn't hear it over the screaming even if he does.
How old was he at the time? Ever see pics of RFKjr when he was young with long hair in back?
As any good soldier will tell you, you *can* use a helmet to dig out a foxhole. Or a shallow grave. And what's the ONE THING we are absolutely sure the Bretwalda always has handy?
Didn't he already do that like 1400 years ago? Do your eally want the Phantom of the Bretwalda haunting us all and being even more annoying than the Decomposing Composer that haunts the Mead Hall?
What is Tom's Price-y phones?
On August 31st, I rushed Jake into the vet's office again. I heard him howl like he had on July 30th. I hopped out of the shower, and checked on him. The doctor looked at him between other appointments, and there wasn't anything he could see wrong. #Help www.gofundme.com/f/cat-had-ki... 1/2
And once they'd made their money from the free land the government gave them for building it, passenger service couldn't break even and Amtrak had to take it over. If Fracking hadn't made that line viable for shipping oil from the Bakken Shale to refineries elsewhere, freight would go bust, too.
A lot of railroads went out of business and lost a lot of money learning that lesson. A couple of times, it crashed the whole national economy in the process. Even in the UK, smaller and more densely populated, railroads often went bust even before cars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway...
Hi, I'm Thou Shalt Sanctify The Shoulder Of The Heave Offering, Which is Waved, and the Wave Offering, Which is Heaved....Smith. Meet my cousin, Moab Shall Be As The Straw That Is Trampled In The Manure...Johnson. And his Fiancee, There She Lusted After Her Lovers Jones. Don't ask her middle name.
What is "Me follaré a todo lo que se mueva"?
Diner Grill on Irving? The place with burritos stuffed with french fries instead of rice alongside the meat and beans?
They'll initially have nothing to export, so if they import anything beyond American Anarcho-Capitalists and their luggage from the US, the US will have a trade surplus with them, and not need anything beyond the base universal tariff rate, even under Trump's silly formula.
I bet bear cubs would also enjoy the Melmacian version, Bouillabaisseball, which instead of a ball, uses a wad of fish guts.
I'm still pulling for @katmabu.bsky.social in that race, but I'm annoyed you get the interesting candidates over in the 9th district while us 5th district proles are doomed to be stuck with another 2 years of Wiggly Quigley. Eh, at least he's been really good on Ukraine.
It's Wales, so they'd be Consummate Leeks, I guess.
Over on this side of the Pond, our plans for tonight are Turkey Breast Roast, Stuffing, Succotash, Yams, House Salad, Cantaloupe wedges, warm ciabatta rolls, and Brownie a la mode for dessert.
Just use Trogdor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=90X5...
It's not like you could be seen any other way in that shirt.
I was in Montreal and NYC on the same family car trip some 40 years ago. No it the heck wasn't, at least back then. I'm guessing gentrification hit it HARD since then and a crapload of Anglophones moved in?
RFKjr is obviously Pestilence. Musk, with his USAID cuts, would be Famine. But between Miller and Trump, which one is War, and Which one is Death? I'm thinking Miller is War, what with his insistence that immigration = invasion. Trump would then be Death, and his golf cart his Pale Horse.
You know that thing where people who read a lot of books learn a bunch of big fancy words they've not yet heard spoken aloud, so they mispronounce them when they do? This is the opposite. Someone thought "Desolation Drive" would be a good name for a street, but had never actually seen it in print.
My sister has a theory that the Evangelicals know darn well that he's the Antichrist, but they figure following the Antichrist is what most people are supposed to *do* in their stupid little Apocalypse script. They're just happy they get to play a role in the great drama leading to the 2nd Coming.
Nice. I did consider trying to make a joke about a second instrument plugged into the other exhaust port and naming it the Flatuflute.
Don't say that too loud, some Performance Artist will start drawing up specifications for having one custom-made for their next stage show.
Or in a Zombie Apocalypse. Basically, we long for an excuse to shoot our neighbors and ransack their belongings for cool stuff to take. I'm not quite up to being worried about an American Auschwitz, but I'm seriously starting to worry about a Redneck Rwanda. With guns not machetes this time.
Kiefer Sutherland and director Joel Schumacher reunited a few years later for "Flatliners", a better-than-one-might-expect thriller about Med Students killing and immediately reviving each other to study the afterlife. It's filmed/set in Chicago, and my Mom was in-frame one scene with Kevin Bacon.
No person of sound mind and good will can look at the events of 1/6 and *not* think Trump is an insurectionist. A SCOTUS justice who votes that he isn't is too smart to be dumb enough to actually believe it, they *have* to be in on it, and therefore can themselves be arrested as insurrectionists.
Just as ICE and DHS have been deputizing other Federal Law Enforcement, from the Bureau of Prisons to the Postal Inspection Service, to assist them in arresting suspected illegal immigrants, they will deputize hard-core Trumpist ICE and other regime thugs as Capitol Police or whoever they need to.
De Beauvoir and Nelson Algren. Or was she supposed to be the sexy murder poet and Sartre the Bureaucrat?
Epitome. Which I still to this day tend to mentally hear in my head as "Epi-Tome", not "Eh-pih-toe-mee". But I *am* starting to get used to at least *saying* it correctly when speaking out loud.
Amelia Earhart was often called an Aviatrix. We don't really say "aviator" any more except in the context of "Naval Aviator", we mostly just call them pilots. But I don't think Aviatrix is quite dead, but it does feel distinctly old-fashioned. Which makes it popular in Steampunk and similar genres.
To be fair, Kirk looks at a lot of people and things like that. Any beehive-hairdoed Woman Of The Week, The Enterprise, a nice omelet, a good jumping horse, an unexplored nebula, Spock, his bed after a long day Captaining.
And then JD Vance dies in some sort of improbable accident at or on the way to/from Biden's funeral, before a new VP is installed. And President Mike Johnson is unable to hold the Trumpian coalition together.
A *Confederate* court in *Virginia* found *during the Civil War* that Lee had violated the manumission clause in the will and forced him to free his slaves. That's how hard Lee fought to keep his slaves, and that's how wrong he was to do so.
Go argue with a wolf or lion. Or even a housecat. Cats are obligate carnivores, they cannot survive without a diet mostly consisting of meat. You wanna starve a bunch of kittens to death?
I'm on to your little scheme to breed a whole subterranean society of Horta, become their leader, and grow rich off the beverage concession monopoly for this new underground civilization. But, as the old saying goes, "You can Lead a Horta Culture, but you can't make them Drink."
Best Freudian Typo that I've seen in quite a while.
Are you not counting the hundreds of bi-curious coeds at their several Small Midwestern Liberal Arts Colleges? Someone is writing all those letters to Hustler Magazine.
I am pretty sure they operate F-18C Hornets, not F-16 Vipers.
West Point to honor general whose army killed the most of its graduates.
I guess when your Plank's constantly squeaking, it needs replacing. You can oil'er constantly and it won't make a difference.
Gonna ask kindly but emphatically that Trekkies please listen to my close and dear friend Girafe’s words about Star Trek Strange New Worlds treatment of biraciality.
So seeing a Woman of Color enthusiastically embrace the fact that her role is to "drive the ship" and that was the central truth of her life, personality, and role in society, really annoyed me as a Babylon 5 and JMS fan who knew that story from his animation days.
...of the operation, and Ray was the heart of the team. And Winston? "He's the driver". Janine, of course, was the Team Mom, because, and the consultants actually said this out loud, "we don't want to confuse kids with a female character who isn't motherly".
I hated that "I fly the ship" scene. It reminded me of the story JMS tells of working on The Real Ghostbusters, and the studio brought in consultants who ordered the show be dumbed down. Part of that was making every character's role clear: Venkman was the Mouth of the team, Egon was the brains...
Trump will demand they bring an aircraft carrier, dragging it down Pennsylvania Avenue on telephone pole rollers or something, pulled by thousands of sailors with ropes. And then he'll try to build one of these for desert warfare and future parades.
No, that's Lot, not Job. And it's a political propaganda hit piece to help explain why the tribes descended from the resulting inbred babies, the Amalekites and Moabites, are bastards who deserve to be genocided.
Does he expect the Navy parade to involve huge teams of enslaved asylum-seekers dragging AEGIS destroyers and missile subs through the streets of DC on rollers made of telephone polls or something? Followed by slaves dragging a golden statue of him, like something out of Ancient Egypt?
Or they were recorded only in monuments and oral tradition that didn't survive the shock of European Colonialism and conversion to Christianity, with the attendant genocides and Katyn-like mass murder of potential leadership castes and suppression of pagan myths and practices.
Because they had written histories and places like Africa and the Americas did not. We're pretty sure tribes and empires were clashing for all the usual reasons of ego and spite and access to land and resources in those places too, they just didn't write down the names and dates and places of wars.
Ah, like that infamous video showing "every battle in history" on an animated world map that chugs along from 5000 BCE or whatever to the present. And of course for most of the time, especially early on, *all* the little dots that light up are in the Mediterranean or East Asian worlds.
Tom Clancy's Anne of Green Gables. Tom Clancy's The Boxcar Children. Tom Clancy's Kama Sutra. Tom Clancy's Fanny Hill. Tom Clancy's Pride and Prejudice. Tom Clancy's Little Engine That Could. Tom Clancy's Siddhartha.
This is what we mean by "Structural" homophobia, racism, and sexism. Even powerful people don't need to be personally racist, or sexist, or whatever, to be essentially forced by the carrots and sticks of societal structures around them into doing stuff that has racist/sexist/etc. consequences.
He and Nancy had gotten along swimmingly with tons of Queer folks in their Hollywood days, he was best friends with Rock Hudson. He was not personally homophobic. Didn't stop him from firing his gay staffers when pushed to do so. Or letting his administration ignore the AIDS crisis for years.
Ronald Reagan, when first elected Governor of California, appointed a bunch of openly gay people to his administration. The rest of the Republican Party in CA had a hissy fit, and since Reagan was a political newbie, he didn't yet have the clout to force them into line, and had to fire them all.
Fair enough, I don't actually use LLM-style AI myself, so I wouldn't know.
Much like how folks like me still play old abandonware games, once a few of the AI companies go under, their old models will escape into the wild and be passed around on torrent sites and the like, to be run locally by anyone with a decent CPU/GPU, for all sorts of purposes, good and malicious.
This is a funny tweet because she's actually right, this the story of Berkeley. An Americanized Chinese food restaurant that appealed to WASPs happily sold out after the owners reached their elderly age and the new business serves the booming Asian population downtown. And the WASPs think its bad
Isn't that portrait based on his smegging mugshot? Anyways, you don't need to burn it. Just slap an applique sticker reading "Firing" or "Laying Off" just above "American Workers First".
If you want to apply the term "Miles" to Napoleon, just apply the surname "Gloriosus". Especially if you're gonna use an even-more-ridiculously-heroic version of that propaganda painting of Napoleon Crossing the Alps, since he actually want on donkey-back. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_G...
Perhaps including a pledge to remain living in the new country-of-residence-and-citizenship for at least 5 more years, with a small fine/fee for early departure. Maybe you let people vote in both nations' elections, maybe you require them to only vote where they actually live as a primary residence.
What you should do is make dual citizenship easier. Once someone lives in another EU country for, say, 5 years maybe, they should be able to apply for dual citizenship in that country without losing their original EU-nation citizenship. Then you could vote where you live just fine.