SonnyVabitch

Wouldn’t that volume for sale appearing on the market decrease the price in and of itself?

If their past behaviour is any guide they could also allow felons to own weapons, or at least carve out exceptions for access to nuclear weapons and advanced militaries.

The English word ‘speaker’ has multiple meanings. In Hungarian, there is a different word for a speaker device that casts sound (hangszóró, “sound caster”) and Speaker of the House of Parliament (házelnök, “president of the house”).

Still, when googling one, you may get results for the other. 🤷

Not for much longer

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When even the US is telling you you are overdoing the whole bombing thing…

I’m not familiar with the books, and the plot summary of their Wikipedia article does not mention nuclear propulsion whereas the article for the series does, so I went with that.

Unless what bothers you is the x followed by the apostrophe and the s, which I never know when to omit the s, so it is what it is.

The human brain is capable of wonderful things, and also shit like this:

former adult film star

former adult Benjamin Button

It’s not uncommon in scifi. Netflix’s Three Body Problem also explores such a solution in quite some depth.

In countries with strict laws forbidding euthanasia, people living with painful terminal medical conditions may take up blowing the whistle on Boeing instead…

Tangentially, the disaster recovery plan for a company I worked for 20 years ago included provisions of shift work for 9-5 people. If one of the major offices were to become unavailable due to fire or whatever, the other location would accommodate the extra workforce by going 6-2, 2-10, essentially doubling the desk count until a permanent solution was found. Back then, everybody was 100% office based.

Hybrid is a compromise that makes no sense to either party. The company still has to maintain an expensive office while being limited to the talent pool within commutable distance. The employee still has to waste countless (albeit fewer) hours travelling while being limited to job opportunities within ~20 miles of their residence.

I don’t have anything to add other than an anecdote:

I got permabanned from /r/askhistorians for having a “vulgar” username. Yeah, this one that I’m using now. I had been lurking for years, one time I commented a thank you to someone’s reply, and bam! I was gone.

Is that the UK or US date format?

In the seventies and eighties the communist leaders of Hungary, when talking about the realities of the time introduced some terms to explain the difference of the real world from the ideals.

“Socialism that exists”
“Socialism that works”

The jokes immediately started coming, pointing out that the socialism that exists does not work, while the socialism that works does not exist.

Flour is a common ingredient for thickening stews etc. Not OP, but if I had to guess I’d wager that the flour soaked up all the moisture in the pan, then dried out and started to burn.

If you ever feel useless just remember somebody designed and implemented the share-to-facebook feature on porn sites.

Not related, but I was reminded of this old joke: what’s the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn’t think he’s a doctor.

Not this one, thanks for the recommendation, but I’ve heard White Wine In The Sun, and that’s touched me even though I’ve spent all my Christmases in the Northern hemisphere. 🙂