Recovering skooma addict.
what if you have to get a hold of them at two in the morning
People sometimes accuse me of being cynical, and yet here I was giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, thinking his objection might be that we don’t need such a rule because employees already had the right to not answer the phone by nature and tradition.
Maybe. When Reuters publishes such a thing it just makes me wonder what crazy new law they are trying to gin up support for. As they say “When authorities restrict one chemical, suppliers and traffickers just switch to another.” It worries me to imagine what kind of “solution” they might dream up for that problem.
That seems like a lot of trouble to go to just for one clickbait headline.
Polls were not good before the debate. Maybe it’s too early to say what the effect will be but here’s the second report I’ve seen saying it’s getting worse.
Science is a religion in the same way that golf is a religion. It’s not, but it’s easy to see how one might get the wrong idea by listening to the rhetoric of its most enthusiastic admirers and not looking too closely at the actual thing they’re talking about.
If we’re including television I’m disappointed that nobody mentioned Blackadder.
If not, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Anachronism means something else, especially with respect to movies.
Guess I should’ve gone with “Academic? It doesn’t even cover ancient Greece.”
Academic? History of the World Part I? I guess you could say it has about as much academic rigour as the average Mel Brooks movie.
We customarily refer to the ends of the bed as “head” and “foot” which are analagous to the head and foot of a sail in nautical terms. Therefore “forward” in the ordinary bed naturally corresponds to the direction of straight up toward the ceiling, and the port side is the one on your left when lying in the bed facing that way.
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#NatureIsMetal
Election 2025: Wakko vs. Skippy
He’s probably right about Israel and Palestine and all that, but I think he underestimates the willingness of a rational player of Sid Meier’s Civilization® in analogous circumstances to spend a turn taking out the obsolete unit that can’t do any damage to their modern infantry. Those musketeers can still pillage your mines, slow down and spy on your troop movements, blow up your roads and railways, and of course kidnap your workers. In this instance the game reflects the cruel reality of war slightly better than it’s given credit for. Its more salient departure from reality is in mostly failing to depict the suffering of all the non-combatant civilians who we must imagine living in the lands where the wars take place, a failing it shares with for example the game of chess.
Vladimir Putin’s landslide reelection
He gets so much good press about it around the world, I wonder why he doesn’t have himself elected more often. Once a year perhaps, on Vladimir Putin day.
That analysis would be sufficiently absurd without trying to cram it into a “fact check” format. That it took 40 years since the start of the “one child policy” for the population to actually start declining in any meaningful way is indicative of the fact that to understand these things you need more long-term thinking than is even hinted at here. Will the present trend hurt next year’s GDP growth? Yes. Will they be better off for it 50 years from now? Probably.
Twitch. I figure their corporate masters are about equally evil, so if you really have to choose one you may as well go with the one that still has better discoverability, community, and chat. #AlternatePlayer makes it tolerable.
Sure, it’s inevitable. China is so great and prosperous that one day the people of Taiwan will see reason and enthusiastically petition to join it. This will obviously happen some day, so there’s no need to do anything but sit back and wait for it, President Xi.
Oh look, it’s another foreign land that hasn’t yet developed any immunity to the infectious diseases coming out of Europe.