Apparently the lights in the letters L, M and A in the Islamabad Airport sign once went out, treating new arrivals to the news that it IS A BAD AIRPORT.

Also, he had, by all accounts, a crush on a noblewoman named Beatrice, whom he made into the embodiment of beauty and goodness in his books.

Is it legal to not be a Muslim in Saudi Arabia? I thought it was a crime unless one had special dispensation (typically granted to foreign advisors and such).

The real-world equivalent of a typical fediverse account

New Bioshock/Idiocracy crossover just dropped

Sorry mate, I gave up driving years ago.

There’s apparently a resort town in Thailand where all the local staff speak Swedish, because the tourists are almost all Swedish.

He’ll be parachuted into 10 Downing St. to run the UK.

I should probably give The Illuminatus! Trilogy another read.

This is the future conservatives want

Germany will exit it next. Orban has already provided the language, and not doing so will be incompatible with the Staatsräson.

Are they automating their jobs away to let the rest of humanity live lives of joyous leisure, or will those non-owners who no longer provide utility to the owners just be starved to death?

Operation Prairie Storm

This is my surprised face

Maglevs could revolutionise the future of inflexible point-to-point links (they’re mostly used for things like showpiece airport trains, and future plans are fixed single-line systems like the Japanese one). IIRC, unlike legacy double-rail systems, you can’t have switches for diverting trains between two lines at speed, meaning that the sorts of flexible railway networks that currently exist can’t be replicated with maglev.

Any ranking Democrat would be far too committed to trying to manifest norms by acting as if they were still in force to even consider such an action.

Judging by their mugshots, they were perpetuating a longstanding family tradition

Ace Frehley, surely. Nice Jewish boy who was in one of those beat combos

Depends on who you are. If you’re Brock the quarterback, you’ll be fine. If you look a bit queer or neurodivergent or are from a racialised minority, probably not a good idea.

I suspect Nicole is a similar sort of operation to Aidana the pretty lady dentist from Kazakhstan, only aimed at people who’d be more sceptical. So instead of stealing images from a fitness influencer, they got some from a more average-looking young woman and made up a story. If it’s like Aidana, there’s a guy somewhere (probably in the hinterland of Russia or elsewhere in the former USSR) whose day job is to string the people who reply along, lead them into believing they have a relationship with this lady, make sure they’re absolutely sure this isn’t a scam, and then pig-butchering them for all they’re worth.