The old candy MacBooks are more like 25 years old now. :/

drew an egg

It is a cold grey day and I am going to take a nap next to this sleepy kitty cat. She has the right idea.

See also JKR and her endless transphobic lawfare to which the Parliament of the United Goddamned Kingdom apparently must bow.

TBH fandom has soured me on Sherlock Holmes - by god I could go the rest of my life without hearing about his supposed romantic connection to John Watson! Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am weary of Johnlock.

I wrote off Young Sherlock out of hand because the “Young S” reminded me of “Young Sheldon”, another series which didn’t need to exist about a supposedly smart guy who’s an asshole.

we all know I have no life, so:

I dunno how you’d solve that problem unless you want to make a tricameral system where the thousands of Congresscritters elect representatives to some sort of upper house and then the senate is also there.

I do wonder how a parliament with hundreds of members is supposed to get anything done (never mind that right now they don’t anyway), and expanding it would only make it worse. A Congress numbering in the thousands would surely be unmanageable.

You can tell the brand of frozen pizza by the smell!?

Oh, I know nothing about computer hardware! It would just be cool to see.

Thank heavens for Indian and Asian immigration for introducing us all to spices!

TBF Māori food is either a) salted preserved meats or b) unseasoned steamed vegetables. As you say the British half of our ancestors have absolutely no place from which to throw stones from, though, as their “cuisine” was “unseasoned boiled everything”. A little salt if you like it spicy.

And what is “pea wiggle”, if not a charmingly rustic name for some sort of parasitic larva that bores into pea pods and causes uncontrollable muscle spasms and neurological damage in any mammals unfortunate enough to eat the infested plant?

Consider: bread pudding. It’s basically a fruit pie wth soggy white bread as the - and I say this with the greatest disdain for such linguistic chicanery - “crust”.

(I wonder how hard it would be to retrofit a modern computer into one of those old cases?)

Yessss. I wanted one of those back when they came out and I want one still.

That does seem to be the way spaceflight works …

Goodness gracious the rain is really coming down!

I’m thinking possibly “a fault in the cryogenics wakes everyone up early, and they have to make it to the closest possible destination before life support breaks down”.

It’s a big ship so never intended to land. Fuel loss … the thing with that is that when you’re up to speed the fuel you need is to *slow down* at the other end - which they’ll need to do no matter where they head. In fact diverting to a different destination would need *more* fuel.

Butlerian Jihad now, Butlerian Jihad forever

Addendum to this; I’m now trying to figure out a way to damage an (fairly scientifically plausible) interstellar spacecraft in flight in such a way that it can’t make its original destination and has to divert to a different target … but *can* actually make it to that target.

It was very clever of those Jesuits to get buy-in from the Chinese and the Maya and also the trees.

Why would he need to when it obviously only affects Hispanics, not his proud white Anglo-Saxon warriors? It’s not called the Saxon Miasma!

the Boots Riley discourse on twitter isn't going far enough imo. if you're actually a leftist, you shouldn't even be *watching* movies and television. the only way to actually be a Marxist is to live in a big tank like a guild navigator in Dune so that you can spend 24 hours a day posting

“People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things …”

- GNU Terry Pratchett, CARPE JUGULUM (2/2)

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. (1/2)

i will never stop getting furious at foreigners calling kiwifruit "kiwi".

Mummy’s specialest little boy, yeah. Which you can definitely tell by the fact that a) Ol Liz paid millions to shut his accusers up and b) the moment she died Charlie dropped him like a cigarette butt.