Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@eyrea @randahl Ukraine has given Russia what it wants more than once. Russia's never satisfied for long and it always comes back for more.

@cybeardjm People who think Somalia is the most well-governed country in the world.

@bencurthoys @countcol I don't know if you've ever met a repo man, but they're not high on the list of people whose job losses you'd especially lament.

The experience of a faultlessly operating device spontaneously updating itself with new firmware that introduces bugs and breaks functionality is almost uniquely frustrating, but also weirdly familiar on some deep archetypal level.

It's entirely as if human civilization, having grown up believing for most of its history in entirely imaginary demons, afrits and malevolent spirits, had to go and invent them the first chance it got.

@randahl None of it addresses the silliness that yesterday stated with incontrovertible authority that God hates these things, today they say God's sort of okay with it, and tomorrow (one hopes) they'll say that it's all just lovely.

But they somehow never get around to explaining how or when God changed His mind -- or even admit to believing that He does -- let alone show you a copy of the memo He presumably sent them.

I mean, golly, one might almost suppose the whole thing's made up and they're winging it as they go.

When visiting the Acropolis, don't forget to ask a local where the four horsemen are. This is insider knowledge that they don't put in the guidebooks.

@randahl Such a remarkable coincidence that every successive religion happens to have its most important festival on or near the same day: just after the solstice, as the days begin to get longer again. The most considerate Gods and messiahs make a point of being born right about then in order to put converted societies to minimal inconvenience.

I think we should all start wearing T-Shirts that say "I do not consent to be in your video."

@david_crispin @randahl Pardon my phrasing. Too much social media can make a person snappish.

@david_crispin @randahl You're claiming Iraq is not in the UN?

@randahl He felt threatened by Cheney and the PNAC bunch, who wanted a war for a whole bunch of reasons. Saddam was just the most credible pretext.

@rubenbolling

@voooos Sigh. More sprawl. Just disgraceful. I suppose the cost of running roads and utilities out to Oort Cloud Village and Kuiper Belt Estates is going to come out of our taxes.

@EugeneMcParland
At this point I'd be quite content for Orbán to leave office in the same manner as Ceaușescu, Mussolini or Qaddafi.

@rpilocator @CalcProgrammer1 @Raspberry_Pi Now if they can come up with a ship date for the PoE hat.

If Charles was serious about being King he'd leave medicine to doctors and insteadd propose homeopathic solutions in areas more in line with his brief: the social and political problems of ruling the country. For example, he could introduce minute traces of knifecrime, or illegal migration, in order to cure those problems.

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/111579722690692667

@beebrookshire Apart from the issue of overhead bins filling up before you get there, if I have a window seat, I like to board early so that I'm not causing or participating in the aisle-clogging musical chairs that ensues later in the boarding process as everyone arranges themselves and their stuff. Boarding later's a bit better if you have an aisle seat for similar reasons.

@AnnemarieBridy You can't even parody this stuff. I started to make a joke along the lines of "that did so well, now they're making a live-action film about ..."

But I googled it first. And they actually are doing it: https://screenrant.com/rock-em-sock-robots-movie-updates-news-cast-story/