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.

Given that he regards the Department of Justice as his personal litigators, it makes sense that he’d regard NATO as his enforcers.

Their hearts would have to beat a lot slower, as pretty much every species gets 1-2 billion heartbeats per lifespan.

The handful of pet Galapagos tortoises are something like that.

I’m 13 and this is edgy

I’m sure that a man as fond of Nazi dogwhistles as Musk will appreciate the fact that, given that a B looks like an 8, his losses are almost a Nazi codeword.

Looks like buying the Washington Post paid off then

And yet, shafts of light sometimes grace the corners of our rooms

If you have enough wealth to be forever above consequences, you don’t ever need to endure the discomfort of growing

Do they mean “Firefox can get your location data to pass on to pages you give permission to, who we cannot guarantee won’t share it with advertisers” or “Firefox reserves the right to do a deal to monetise the tantalising firehose of location data coming from your device unless you specifically opt out”?

Kiki before bouba