Probably hard to from their hospital bed, but I don’t see what this feast fit for a squire has to do with that.

🎵 Three little orphans: one, two, three 🎵

🎵 Without a home or a family tree 🎵

Seriously, I have way more sympathy for people who get tickets in places like NYC. More crowded, more chaotic, more rules. It happens.

By ticket 38, though, I’m at least 20 tickets past the point where I’ve decided I’m not competent enough and started just taking a mix of cycling and public transit.

I’ve never seen Magic Earth, but as an OSM contributor, I don’t understand why I’d use a subscription service when all the underlying data is free (as in beer and freedom) and contributed by volunteers (and likely not the app devs). One-time app purchases like OsmAnd I understand because you’re doing stuff with the data like routing, overlays, etc., and that requires development work. But a subscription seems absurd.

This sounds like a fake website that Kitboga would make up for scambaiting.

It all makes sense now. The reason Republican conventions see spikes in Grindr usage isn’t because they’re closeted gay; it’s because they think they can ask around for tips and tricks.

That’s actually another really good point: North American stroads have to be so fucking tedious for people who actually want to get something out of their cars. It’s the same shit everywhere so there’s nothing to see, you go just fast enough for your $100,000 car to be totaled if someone sneezes at you but not enough for it to be fun, you’re constantly in danger thanks to the poor design, and it’s you and a goddamn thousand people trying to get to Paunch Burger.

Imagine you had a high-end gaming PC and the only way to use it was to play cheap asset flips. I’m not saying we make roads into racetracks when the normies are gone; rather, I’m saying holy shit, the roads in well-designed urban places are so much more interesting and beautiful to drive in.

Yeah, car guys in my experience consistently think (maybe correctly) that everyone else on the road but them is a total moron. You don’t like those pesky cyclists sharing the road with you? Neither do most of us cyclists; let’s get them on separated paths. Don’t like morons who can’t drive? Make it so they don’t have to. Don’t like traffic? Take the other space-inefficient cars off the road.

I think car people recognize that just positively reinforcing micromobility and public transit can improve their experience.

I’d rather ride with an organization that doesn’t have Twitter Gold, but we take what we can get, I guess…

Maybe they’re implying Bubba wasn’t the only one…

Since you put it in scare quotes, here’s what RNC Research is. (MS NOW is an openly biased opinion source, but it shouldn’t take a lot of convincing that this is an obvious MAGA propaganda account.)

Anyway, the MAGA propaganda account that is RNC Research is answering to the full Omar quote, which is transparently directed at Trump. I’m not going to abide the doublethink of “Mainstream media needs to stop letting Trump and the far-right skirt responsibility for their statements by dressing them up in plausible deniability; they need to state what he’s obviously, actually saying” (they do, and I see that sentiment here all the time) and “Wow, this account is calling Trump a pedophile by cutting through the plausible deniability speak and acknowledging who literally everyone knows Omar meant when she said this.”

Even if I were somehow delusional enough at this point to think Trump is not a child rapist, it’s still trivially obvious who Omar means, and pretending otherwise is grossly disingenuous. You don’t inherently have to believe an insult to recognize who’s being insulted.

The headline is written that way because Omar’s full statement was:

The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files.

At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them.

Kumar is lying by omission to make the joke work.

You’re missing a second “they fuck you over” edge from the big tech vertex back to yours.

It’s not that it requires two (did you mean twin?) actors; that’s what I meant about “not fully writing the play around them”. The example here has someone wake up in a different place than they just were a split second ago, and the effect is really convincing because they’re twins. You could make this work without twins, but it’s a neat bit of trickery that’s easy and seamless because you have twins to work with.

I have seen The Prestige a long time ago! I totally forgot.

That’s my secret: it’s empty.

I fully support this measure. If the country’s population hits 10 million, the people who supported it can be guillotined for a better Switzerland. Then we can all move on with our lives and never revisit this horrible idea.

That’s not true.

Okay, then you’ll need to explain the annual emails I’ve gotten saying “Your application to the Wikipedia Library has been approved” after I apparently tripped and fell and filled out a manual form applying to the library every year.

It doesn’t seem selective once you meet the four aforementioned criteria, but you do need to manually apply.

The idea you’re talking about, meanwhile, is nonsensical and doesn’t address basically anything about the massive structural problems blacklisting archive.today imposes. I wholly support expanding out the Wikipedia Library, but even this pie-in-the-sky version of it falls too far short of what archive.today provides – and that’s just going forward in an ideal world where you can snap your fingers and make this fantasyland WPL happen as soon as archive.today is blacklisted.

The “backcatalogue”, so to speak, is what’s going to be the most catastrophic part of this by far. I spent years where my main focus was just on bringing dead sources back to life; I don’t know the full extent of how bad this is, but I know for damn sure what you’ve suggested (which won’t ever happen) undoes barely a fraction of the damage.

I think you have a very severe misunderstanding of the Wikipedia Library, which I have access to and frequently use. The WPL allows active editors in good standing to access paywalled sources.

• You must have an account which is 6+ months old, has made 500 edits, has 10+ edits in the last month, and is not blocked. (an extreme minority of editors, let alone readers.)
• You must first apply to gain access.
• For publications with limited subscriptions, you must individually apply on top of your WPL access.
• Critically: the WPL does not host any of these publications. You are taken to them via a portal and given an access token.

I can’t emphasize enough how absurd this comparison is. “Solar farms exist; building a Dyson sphere would be basically the same thing. Let’s get to work.” And the thing is: I wish you were right.

Edit: That said, if you ever need copyleft material, we do maintain Wikimedia Commons for media generally and Wikisource which is a transcribed digital library of free sources. Much narrower in scope than this, but I highly recommend them!

some mf really threw an entire hog carcass into a blender and said “yea let’s sell that as food. Great.”

“Dead animal in my dead animal? Revolting.”