Not saying any way is right or wrong, just that the relationship is asymmetric, and sometimes complicated, so I don't think I agree with a presumption of reciprocity

But like many social interactions, it's fundamentally asymmetric. Like, me quoting you to my 200 followers isn't the same as you quoting me to your 60,000+ followers. Similarly turning off quotes means a different thing and has a different effect for you than for me

I'm still going with a 2013 laptop, which admittedly is working on approx 2/3 of a screen at this point. I've been waiting for it to actually crap out before migrating, but it's a tenacious little bugger and still limping on and I kinda like that about it now

Fucking hell. Literally writing sexual harassment into company policy. Surprised their lawyers haven't forced them to settle already

The US using more and more conventional military power is like trying to throw more cavalry at the castle gates. While that may work eventually, it's not a particularly effective plan

Would a better view be that this is something like a modern analogue of medieval siege warfare. A small defending force can bloody the nose of a much stronger attacking force that they could never stand up to in an open fight

"Well, we can see that they don't by the fact that I'm talking to you and am not a rapidly expanding cloud of the resulting particles"

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Michael Tilson Thomas, transformative music director of S.F. Symphony, dies at 81 The longtime San Francisco Symphony music director battled aggressive brain cancer for years but continued to guest conduct and teach, leaving a lasting legacy in the classical music world.

Sad and long-expected news: Michael Tilson Thomas died last night at 81, nearly five years after first being diagnosed with brain cancer. This will take some time to process.

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More South American revision needed for me. Didn't even get into the right country…

Thanks, I needed a good laugh today

"All (Gender) Guards Are Bastards" seems very relevant here!

Honestly, that might be slightly less wild than some uses of ratios like sports betting odds.

Anyway, I'm sure this means I've put at least 6000% more thought into this than either RFKJr or DJT

If I were trying to defend the indefensible, I might argue that we should take 6000% to mean the number 60 (ie 6000/100). The reduction from 6000 to 10 is a factor of 60, and so could be described as a "6000% reduction". Which… OK, I know that still isn't what those words means

A screen shot of a skeet from Merriam-Webster that reads - ‘SWIMS’ upside down is still ‘SWIMS’. With a reply that reads - if you love geometric fonts where this would be true so much then why don't you use them in your body copy? no? not readable? go FUCK yourself; dictionary. they should call you hypocrictionary

I’m sorry, but bluesky is THRIVING…

[insert "no that's too bluesky" meme]

Well it can't make it look any worse

Copy of a report to the local police?

Just felt my arteries clogging. Once and never again.

Strippers and coke seem almost quaint

I appreciate he might be in a bad position trying to get the best he thinks he can. Don't know enough details, and don't know if that's a valid calculus. But it's still not good faith whatever way you cut it.

"Do more with less" is almost universally bullshit and everyone knows it's bullshit. I just stop assuming good faith whenever someone tries that line

Apart from anything else, if you're going to calculate this way in anything that resembles a consistent and logical way (somewhat perverse, but you *could* define it like this), it would actually be a 6000% reduction from 600 to 10, not 600%.

Lufthansa don't fly LHR-BER anyway, it's BA and Eurowings on that route.

Also, it's 6-8 times longer journey train, unfortunately. (Believe me, I live in Poland with family in Scotland, and would much rather take the trains, but it really just doesn't add up most of the time.)

“And if it did, why did nobody tell me about it?” had me cackling

Is almost like deliberately doing cartoonishly evil things is not a sustainable electoral strategy

My milder version of this theory is that he was allowed/helped to commit suicide. How much difference you think this makes is a different question.

Seems like this story could've been told in a somewhat different way, if he was trying to minimise damage to the govt. I know that's not his job, but seems bad for Starmer that Robbins is (presumably deliberately) choosing against it.

A sea sponge

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