The Scots are a violent, savage people. I was attacked there and beaten, and everyone I met on the rest of my week stay regaled me with stories of people they knew who had been similarly brutalized. “Oh yeah my sister got a kicking last week.” “My mate Barry tried to pull some geezers off a bird and then she helped them give him a kicking!” And on and on. Amazingly even more vicious than the English, which hardly seemed possible.

Except the water faucets (“taps”) come in pairs, one with cold water and one with hot. So, not so much like going into the future, but more like some primitive land too stubborn to change for the better in even the most straightforward, obvious ways. 😆

For a lot of women the bathroom is the only way to escape unwanted male attention.

I’m learning Chinese now and it seems to have a similar change in pitch as European languages when asking a question. 你说汉语吗？

I didn’t think women were ever independent in Saudi Arabia, but were basically owned by their closest male relative?

EDIT:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/08/saudi-arabia-law-enshrines-male-guardianship

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Is it? I mean, 100 years ago you might all be reading different things, with either a record on or possibly the radio. Why is it terrible that now you’re all… reading different things together in one room?

The first rule of Christianity is, “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

There is no probation against killing in general in Christianity, only murder, which makes an appearance as the 5th commandment. Murder being unlawful and/or unjustified killing, so clearly wartime killing is a-okay in Christianity.

Now, you could argue that “love thy neighbor as thyself” might implicitly forbid killing, but if you start looking to Christianity for morality or even simple consistency you’re going to have a bad time.

As someone with both solar panels and a water kettle I promise you this is something I frequently wonder about!

TIL

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

.TV is not new. It is a country-code TLD (ccTLD) and has been around since the 20th century.

Boris literally just made up stories about the horrors of the EU when he was a journalist in Brussels:

https://www.ft.com/content/ad141e8a-976d-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36

He definitely helped set the stage for Brexit.

Which is why the Supreme Court is hearing the case. Two wealthy industries fighting out who gets to extract the most wealth.

I joined the Democratic party in 2016 just so that I could vote for Bernie in the primaries. Oh well.

It’s the Netherlands.

I kind of don’t like this. People are not worth more or less. We should be just as outraged at shooting a homeless immigrant on their way to an appointment for a sex date with a Grindr hookup as with your hypothetical father of 3 on the way home from work.

I thought the same thing. In the Netherlands it’s not allowed to have realistic looking toy weapons. I basically think that’s a good thing.

I highly recommend the Alt Right playbook:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&si=__UZVQ3cmJRDigR3

Is that a problem? Is there a special reason these should be replaced?

Yeah but your Linux partition is a freak and will do whatever you want. You can even ask it to dress up like Windows or macOS is you want for some reason… it doesn’t care!