I agree.

Except for the “this paper will be sad if you don’t read it” one, that one’s on point.

So what you’re saying is, the complaint about China spying on people boils down to piracy?

Have you considered just carrying a big leaf around?

Or, like, at least a caffeine gland or something.

There’s always the worst possible option: they’re true believers. They genuinely believe the rest of the world is freeloading on the US, and that (atlas) shrugging them off will make everyone else collapse.

LMAO, even.

Weirdly, it means “universal”. It’s just used as a short for “Roman-Catholic”. The orthodox church is officially the “Orthodox Catholic Church”.

Nah, it’s because they can change you for the battery, but you could sue them for drinking the juice.

When the opening goes out of its way to divert the conversation into political blame slinging, the vitriol is very much warranted.

Another reminder that France, Spain, and Italy forced the Bolivian president’s plane to land in Austria because they thought Snowden was on it.

It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.

People thought COBOL would let managers write code.

They think they’re Aragorn and we’re orcs.

Isn’t the game some 150GiB?

Beowulf (2007).

Yes, the cgi aged badly, but everyone panned it for the plot change, which was the thing I liked about it the most!

Cozy dystopia. God help me.

Calm down there, Posadas…

Yeah, the first time the press core deigned to call him “presidential” was when he launched rockets at Syria. The second time was when he assassinated Suleimani.

I’m actually shocked

I’m not. Ever since the war, every single closet xenophobe of the west has been taking full advantage of finally having an acceptable group of subhumans to hate. If any of this surprises you, you haven’t been paying attention.