If they’re going to enforce that rule impartially, they’ll have to ban Crusader Kings III as well.

Mysteriarch

I once caught a cab in Belfast and, in the 15 or so minutes, the driver revealed he was a former paramilitary fighter, and recounted a conspiracy theory about the sinking of the Titanic having been faked as an insurance scam.

Of course, the idea that the President’s head can just explode for no reason in view of the public, and by implication, so can anyone else’s at any time, is far more existentially terrifying than any assassination plot, so, to avert mass panic and social collapse, the FBI hurriedly framed some local weirdo, and then killed him before anyone could flag that he probably had nothing to do with it, which is the only reason why everyone’s life savings still had any value afterwards.

“meat” is descended from a Germanic word that just meant food, which is still evident in cognates in other languages (i.e. “mad” in Danish) and archaic words like “sweetmeats”

Least surprising revelation ever.

Wow. Haven’t seen a proper medieval-style Blood Libel in the wild for a while.

The original full-stack developer

About 500m or, if I want to go to a larger supermarket, about 2km.

There’s probably a market for targeting people matching not only a demographic category but the combination of one and attempts to keep it private, like religious conservatives who browse gay porn in incognito mode or seemingly progressive people who have right-wing views they keep secret.

Every generation thinks it invented being a wiseacre.

The great* thing about wars in the Middle East is that you can recycle old ethnic slurs just by prefixing them with “sand”

“Adrenaline-style policing”: new policing methodology just dropped. What are the pros and cons of it versus, say, Peelian community policing?

Cats’ hearts are also on the right-hand side of their chests, the opposite to where humans’ are. Not sure if this correlates with handedness.

Every country has its Big Balls.

Helena Bonham-Carter, being British, didn’t know that “grade school” was much younger than one would expect from such a line until after the film was released.

As the age verification technology would forcibly deanonymise all EU users, opening a huge new vein of behavioural surveillance data to the zuckerbots.

If the US dumps NATO, that’s all the more reason to increase defence funding. Either that or start learning Russian.

You love to see it.

Loyalty to the leader, and implicitly knowing whom to ratfuck to climb the ladder.