"This is an important thing to think about."

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

is Nads planning to have nads? I await her new name with bated breath.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
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South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

I qualified in 2003 and was a GP trainee in 2008. I did work harder then, but that’s because I was learning a lot in a hurry and now I’ve got a good work-life balance as a GP in Canada. I don’t think a PRHO/FY or SHO in 2008 worked harder than a resident doctor does now.

I am strongly reminded of the likely need for regular stimulants and sedatives (gradually less effective as time goes on, resulting in longer refractory periods between public appearances and noticeably erratic behaviour and decline) that at least one modern head of state is currently exhibiting.

Ohler wryly notes Hitler was mostly a vegetarian but really wasn’t if you consider the quantities of organ extracts with which Morell injected him (as well as meth, cocaine, oxycodone etc.). This of course contributed greatly to Hitler’s increasingly erratic behaviour and decline from 1941 onwards.

It covers the extremely common and initially legal use of methamphetamine (usually marketed as Pervitin, especially to front line troops, but also available as chocolates) and the extraordinary concoctions delivered hourly to the Fuhrer by Theodor Morell, his personal quack.

Read Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler, which is a fascinating eye-opener (and if you needed one of those, the Fatherland was just the place for you) of a book.

I’m sure he’s had many assignations but they generally weren’t televised.

IIRC the U.K. is very dependent on gas for home heating, electricity, and industry (the latter not as much as Germany, I think) but imports 60% of it (30% from Norway, 30% from the Middle East?) So yes, the sooner we become less vulnerable in this way the better.

I have an Erdos-Bacon number of 7. That is so much lower than I thought.

That‘s a lot of words to say “I failed reading comprehension, which is a bit of a problem for a legal scholar.”

Great work, Hungary.

Well it sure would have been nice to have and keep a deal that ensured no Iranian nuclear proliferation, regular UN inspections, and keeping Hormuz open, all guaranteed for 10 years, wouldn’t it? You know, the Obama deal that Trump cancelled.

We Ride at Dawn

Desperate Housewives, mainly.

“At that point, the usual language of democracy becomes misleading. This is not a democracy with flaws. It’s an autocracy with elections.”

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This is honestly the best case scenario for JD, he didn’t want to clean up Trump’s mess anyway.

I honestly think the first Avengers film was the most quippy, with uneven tone and lots of Whedon humour which didn’t always land. I prefer the Russo Avengers films, which built on what they learned making Winter Soldier and Civil War, and they really stuck the landing on plotting a huge crossover.

Your dad was Guy of Gisborne? Robert Addie, I mean?

I’d certainly expect Korea and India to stop selling weapons to Israel, and India to consider selling to Iran, given who’s most affected by the blockade.

Though I see the remark predates Newton and was first mentioned by him in a letter to Hooke in 1675, before Leibniz’s publication of his first paper on calculus in 1684.

I thought it was because Leibniz was short and had published his work on calculus first (though Newton had invented it at about the same time)? Isaac was very pissed off about that.

Replace Elon and then maybe somebody will buy one of your cars. Maybe.

Are they also looking into hiring a less douchey, less toxic, and less expensive CEO? Because that would help more than anything with sales.

Nearly had a heart attack

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