"The novel peace prize", it's much newer
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"The novel peace prize", it's much newer
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Creating a competitor to the nobel peace prize and awarding it to himself
(debrief) ok so it says here you drove a tank through Petersburg
The one thing they should do it make him some well-connected asset rather than an officer, and have M be his increasingly frustrated handler, mainly so I personally can watch it without imagining the paperwork
Man the early days of this site were a trip
Right. It's a hedge because for a lot of pundits and pundit-adjacent folks it matters more to hedge and avoid the ignomy of being called wrong later than to call it out. It is an elite cowardice
It's also why people keep asking "will there be elections" as if that is the deciding factor, when even Russia and North Korea have elections. This is not the thing that tells you you have a liberal functional democracy
I think it's the answer of someone who wants to say "yes" but also wants to hedge in case it gets better later, but that comes from the false binary most people see it as. Liberal democracy is, for the most part, not a "yes/no" question. It is a direction. And the direction now is sharply negative
Lmao
Like it felt like it was in this odd place of being physically books, but itself also being this marketed product in a way that TV shows, or video games, or certain childrens toys do semi-regularly, but books very rarely achieve
How much of that do you think is the content of the books themselves, versus how much it managed to create itself as this shared experience that everyone reads at once, which very few books of /any/ variety manage
Guy who only knows how to pluralize in greek: Legopodes
Not that anyone really cares but a bigger and mostly forgotten scandal was COVID funds to schools being redirected to non-mitigation related equipment and repairs that significantly delayed school reopenings
If I did I forgot about them
Me leaving the house every day
"What if ... 8 million local accounts were authenticated and logged in"
Better not be lsass
My god, that's like four tabs in chrome
Jerry: my name is Jeeeeery and I'm here to post Cast: no jerry no no no Jerry: got my finger on the button gonna post the most Cast: no jerry no no no Jerry: It's ... out in the open now, the post is in space Cast: noooo *Trombone section goes wild*
400-part harmony rendition of the award winning song "no, jerry, no no no"
All I'm saying is if the Devs are looking for ideas, there's still time to make it a musical
If he had a spine he would say "why would she be worried, please explain to me exactly what you are implying. Say it out loud, you ghouls"
There's a few things folks can (and do) do in the weeds, but, well, yeah
Bug report: system calendar says it is September but 2025 clearly started like 3-4 weeks ago
Bimonthly friendly match between UK bsky and US bsky tbh
I mean, when it's "looking around" that tells you who the "foreigners" are, they're not being subtle about who they actually mean to do state violence against, and it's not based on their papers
A shame since Straw ought to know better exactly how hard won agreements can be, and how easily derailed.
Fwiw ted lasso also isn't a movie built to describe a lifestyle or period. It's not even, at it's root, about football. You could transpose almost all of it to baseball, or, hell, school band tryouts or something without much story editing. It's rather a story built to emphasize its core morale.
Brb inventing timezones for donuts
Amusingly enough, we know it is flat, but not whether it is flat like paper or flat like a donut
Jarry70 no
Turns out they can't stop you ordering two hamburgers and a glass of water
Wasn't that long ago that workhouses were a big thing
Look I have a type
Plaza de la Constitución
Ah you're right
Solid musical too
Definitely true tho that as society gets larger it is better able to absorb the costs of reducing arbitrariness in its justice system, and reducing cruelty in its penal system.
Eh, maybe. Prison has been around for a long time, tho historically often also tied to hard labor
Wasn't he also involved in adding lead to gasoline too? One of the most extremely influential people ever, and very much in the extremes of both directions
Forget where I read it, but clothes production used to be about half of all human labor; substantially all waking hours of *most* women from adolescence involved spinning wool (while doing other work) or other aspects of it. The mechanical loom nearly doubled human productivity
Also a big thing that you can transfer knowledge accurately over distance with it, which made it possible to have much larger societies
Probably have to go back to metallurgy or irrigation to find similarly outsized inventions
Yup. Haber Bosch, mechanical loom, and invention of writing all up there as vast explosions of human innovation
Iirc a lot are Airbnb houses, and many of those are Airbnb houses because they are waiting to be sold
Hmmmm. Maaaaybe
If you go back a lot further you might find some from the original copyright wars, or delisting ISIL sites tho. Don't have any off the top of my head, but those would have been non-trademark cases
Yes, tho struggling to come up with ones that aren't trademark-enabled seizures. Microsoft had a bunch (eg here) www.noticeofpleadings.com/strontium/
This is why God invented AC and screen doors
Sort of inevitable that folks sour on it because the view from outside is (unsurprisingly) the worst of it, but it is a genuinely great place, both for tourists and (many, concededly not all) the people here
Or IOW the loss to tourism ends up much, much higher than just the people most obviously targeted by the occupation forces
Some of it too isn't that folks are too scared, tho some of that too for lots of folks, but just it's less fun and more hassle too for everyone else. That sort of tips the balance towards just doing something else or going somewhere else, and is lost patrons either way
To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice, That Henry liveth still: but were he dead,
Head of Yemen's Houthi government and some ministers killed in Israeli strike, Houthi-run news agency says reut.rs/4oQCCoe
Also Rwanda, Israel, Gabon, Azerbaijan, and Cambodia. Each for the same basic reason: it is essentially free, meaningless, and he is easy to manipulate in exchange for it
Youth pastor voice: you know who else everyone thought was dead for three days
Laughable of course, but the EO here is (mis)classifying these agencies in this EO this way as it lets them end collective bargaining and government unions
Right. Charles famously tried to arrest members in the chamber on treason charges, and, then things happened and parliament chopped of his head
Would need to look it up, but IIRC parliamentary immunity wasn't a defense against high treason (at least not until the civil war)
Closest equivalent is some of the more aggressive CFAA "unauthorized access" claims by converting ToS or employee misconduct claims up to automatic felonies
Also there were subcategories of it! What we think of as treason now is really high treason, but there were petit treasons too
I mean, tbf the US did basically the same at around the same time with the Espionage Act
Yes. It's a modern myth, but the formal offense in 1351 required an actual plot towards regicide (or curiously enough, imprisonment of the king), but not idle thoughts. Oddly enough the treason clause's "overt acts" requirement ultimately derives from it!
Ymca
"Takes just one man to fall down a well, but six to dig a new one"
"You can teach a dog to fly a kite, but you'll never get a cat to fly a plane"
"One man can build a house out of bricks but it takes a village to install all the doors"
"Three arms are better than a house made of breadsticks" -- ancient proverb
"Too many dolphins spoil the soup" as grandpa always used to say
"Better to be a fox with a hammer than a leopard who can't count his own spots"
Just regular normal proverbs like "You can teach a wolf to bake a cake, but only a big lemur can eat it"
Just an empty schedule and some people trying to manifest it
I think you mean they urgently settled rather than be demolished by your devastating OA carl
Overly literal way to get a bar complaint
Not to be funny but they will also already have those
Sounds about right
Genuinely curious if there even is one; under previous admins tho it would be pretty straightforward and the UNSG can and should stamp feet about it
Toe-may-to toe-alg-oh
Not sure whether anyone will care to call it out, but either way this is still a blatant violation of the US' obligations under the UN HQ treaty
Yes but it is a robot
By a 7-4 vote, the full Federal Circuit has *affirmed* a lower-court ruling holding that many of President Trump’s tariffs exceed his statutory authority. The ruling won’t go into effect until October 14, though—which gives the Trump administration plenty of time to seek intervention from #SCOTUS:
Here's the op storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Oof this is the Federal Circuit tariffs case
I feel this in my bones
Right. This isn't one of those types of casually evil things like doing something antisocial and making off like bandits from it. It's one of those casually evil things like shooting yourself in the knees at 2am in order to wake your neighbors
Even putting aside the legal risk, just one or two of those celebrities loudly complaining and it will do brand damage more severe than the value of your entire feature. And they obviously would, because it's "flirty" so duh. Like you have to be actively stupid to make this product.
A lot of horrendous decisions going on there. But even aside from the obvious ones, its just ... so obviously was going to be a pr disaster. What on earth
They're still there, just no longer 80% of the feed
Lmao christ
Back in ye olden times where I would post live updates to events because there was literally nobody else doing it
Directly no, indirectly yes
Thems sure were some times joshua
These are not genres designed for mixing lmao
We're going up up up It's our moment Boy, I say boy, look in the mirror, Gotta look in the reflection Cos we are hunters Voices stronger When will it show me
Who is that girl I see Staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show That we are hunters, voices strong And I know I believe
Boy, I say, boy, I'm done hidin', now I'm shining Like I'm born to be
A fun thing is that the idea the *King* can set tariff rates by decree would have been horrifying *to the British* in 1789, never mind to the founders
So many to choose from with this admin, but good god this is despicable
Headline Writer Arrested in Latest Incident Some Critics Call Arrrgh Nooo