Wait until she hears who wrote all those Christmas songs that don’t mention Jesus but are instead about snow and stuff.

Well, I did Nazi that coming

IIRC, Sony paid Disney a small royalty for every MemoryStick with MagicGate DRM capabilities sold, because Disney owns the trademark on the word “Magic” in the context of entertainment media.

If only we could have an all-powerful, wise and virtuous Platonic philosopher-king to righteously wield absolute power, without the likelihood of them turning bad, or being succeeded by a bad emperor. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way, hence democracy, separation of powers and numerous checks and balances that make things wastefully inefficient, because the alternative is worse.

Apparently the leaves ferment in koalas’ stomachs, with the result that koalas spend their entire lives drunk.

At least we won’t have survivor’s guilt

America just got its Horst Wessel.

On a large scale, doomed (see also: the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

On a personal scale, not having children is a perfectly legitimate choice.

Or, more darkly, that the lesson of the Holocaust was that European Jews are white, and not legitimate targets for genocide, unlike, say, brown folks hogging all that valuable land. From which it follows that to deny Israel the right to do to the Palestinians what our forebears did to Red Indians and Africans is just antisemitic gatekeeping.

Eli Valley is based.

An unhoused man, you mean

Reminds me of a story about someone’s older relative who spoke little English except when swearing at other drivers in traffic, when they’d say things like “up shut your ass, mother bitch”

Farewell to a real one.

Or officially attach the name of the awarding president to each award, to disambiguate its value.

CHP are to highways what RCMP are to horses

Pope reports high levels of Catholicism

Hey, if you want fawning adulation, get a dog instead.

They should also write a heroic ballad about her to the tune of the Horst Wessel Lied and make it the official anthem of the Republican Party.

In Australia, they were (and possibly still are) illegal, on the grounds that the possibility of fecal matter making its way back through the plumbing into the public water supply is theoretically nonzero.

2. It’s about breaking the power of tech workers by reducing them from highly skilled specialists to interchangeable low-status workers whose job is to clean up botshit until it compiles. (Given that the machine does the real work and they’re just tidying up the output it generates when prompted, they naturally don’t merit high wages or indulgent perks, even if getting 30,000 lines of code regurgitated from the mashed-up contents of Github and Stack Overflow working is more cognitively tasking than writing that code from scratch would have been.)