also known as hydric acid

Their business is being on show. Not having a black outfit in case of a relative dying or some period of national mourning would be a case of you-had-one-job.

RFK’s “wellness farms” are very much a red flag, though when they shut down psychiatric hospitals in the Reagan era, the result was people with mental illnesses being put back into the general population to cope (which some did better than others), or ending up in that American catch-all, the prison system.

The rich will have actual human teachers, but the poor will be trained by AI. The result will be language diverging into two Eloi/Morlock-style subpopulations.

Though given that people acquire language from their peers, and invent what they need, Poorish will have a bland, almost mechanical formal register, and a lot of incomprehensible-to-outsiders slang about actual life stuff.

Absolute unit

Alas, Andrew is on his way back to a Mel Gibson-style rehabilitation. (If anything, the token ostracism he experienced, solely for the benefit of the cameras, was far less that Prince Harry did for marrying an American of the wrong colour.) Meanwhile, other rapists not only walk free but thrive.

The unpleasant realisation is that Giuffre served her purpose as a warning to other victims to stay silent.

And “fuck” has been used as slang for sexual intercourse since at least the 15th century. (Before that, it meant something like “to strike”.)

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.

If Putler had any sense, he’d spend a fraction of his military budget on making nicotine patches available for free to his orcs. That would pay for itself in no time.

Such a huddle of penguins is called a pengle

They’ve got gigs scheduled in the Schengen Zone. Which is bold, given that Germany has a policy of blacklisting people from the area for the kinds of statements they’ve publicly made.

You’re polite to your chatbot because you want to be spared when the robot uprising comes

I’m polite to my chatbot because I want to bring down capitalism

(Adjusts necktie) We are not the same

She obviously hadn’t watched Twin Peaks

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.

Possibly not, but it may take you longer to return to the nitrogen cycle

Dude is under the impression that he made the new Citizen Kane or something.

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

Because you don’t use Typescript/JS perhaps?

Is this another proxy for the 18th-century Partition of Poland?