She does look like the sort of person who would appreciate that

Surely this must turn around the Liberal Party‘s fortunes…

If the microwave weapon had been developed by Israel rather than Russia/China/whoever, it’d be called Hava Nagila Syndrome.

Too good for bugmeal, are you?

I think I had that issue

To be fair, it’s hard to be born to the right parents to end up in the kinds of schools, internships and social circles where you make the sorts of social connections that consecrate your drug trips and brainfarts with the power to direct the labour of millions.

Technology has advanced somewhat since the French Revolution.

At least they don’t turn their charges into fertiliser, in the way that private equity-owned veterinary chains do.

This reminds me of a cartoon of an alley in ancient Athens with the defamatory graffito “SOCRATES IS STRAIGHT” scrawled on the wall

“Vote from the rooftops”

Georgian and/or Russian

Aren’t there some that come from Korean (“cheugy”, IIRC, and some gamer slang)?

Having had breakfast at an American diner and not needing to eat for the rest of the day, I can almost believe that. Food portions there are huge.

Bandcamp if it’s something that’s on there vs (typically independent artists/labels), or if not, Qobuz (a French company, who sell DRM-free music in formats including lossless FLAC, and have major-label releases that aren’t on Bandcamp).

I can imagine the Trump administration ordering a kill switch to be put into the export version, explicitly disregarding any concerns. I can also imagine the kill switch being vibe coded by some Big Balls-style bros on secondment from one of Musk’s companies, and North Korean hackers finding it immediately.

A gendarme of some sort and a sporting shooter?

Most of that will go on gold and marble for the casino complex

The problem is not a hypothetical kill switch (which is unlikely in a fighter aircraft, as there’s no reliable way of having a back door only the good guys can use, and any possibility of enemy hackers pwning your jets is a nightmare scenario). It’s the F35 being designed as the tip of a very long spear, with most of it being in the US. There’s a lot of support infrastructure one requires, and mitigating dependencies on the US would involve replacing that, at considerable expense.

It’s not impossible, though it’s debatable whether it makes more sense than developing your own fighter instead.

RFK Jr. approved

It sucks that Netflix only allowed the first two seasons (when it was just a cute, edgy cartoon about the unreality of Hollywood/LA, rather than a statement on the human condition) to be released on DVD/BluRay. I’d love to have a copy of “The View From Halfway Down” in my library.