Hush; Alaskans have enough prep to worry about without Russian language lessons added on top.

During WWII there was a somewhat justified reason and one can argue that the nukes, in the end, caused less death and destruction than

At this point, it’s important to remember that the two bombs were dropped after the US had learned Japan intended to surrender.

With that data point in mind, recalculate for war crimes.

I caught some Icelandic rap the other night on that global radio website and now I need to find it. I caught some Algerian rap - rap again, even though it’s usually not my thing - a few months back, too, and it was awesome.

Dragostei din tei(sp) or so, by Romanians O-Zone?

That is some seriously addictive stuff. Good call.

Okay. NEXT COUNTRY , you’re up. Levy those fines.

Maybe the nations belligerently bombed by Israel should begin issuing their own evac orders? “We are going to do something nasty. Please don’t be inside overnight on Monday” and then bomb something minor.

Repeat weekly, different day each time. Something small.

Week 11 say Thursday, really wreck some stuff the day before with no injuries, and say “oops”.

Repeat until they fucking get it.

An interesting take on warlordism

Thanks for the explanation, fwiw

trillions of dollar

That’s a lot of dollar.

Oh, there are layers of self-importance here.

The vaccine they were testing was derailed when participants reported behaviours that resemble anti-vax talking points now. It killed the human testing in the final stages at a huge commercial loss.

But if you go to the vet and get a vax for a big dog and it accidentally gets into your arm and not Rover’s paw, that’s the same thing. They repurposed the ‘failed’ vax for use in pets.

Or so I heard. Go confirm.

I worked at a company run by a SWEngineer.

He was code-smart for code, but really bad for business.

You need to get a real CEO who does management, but keep that person in firm check by mandating half the board be stacked by engineers. Even as advisory roles, like if your company makes widgets you should have some Serious Fucking widget people dominating the board for big decisions.

“You make one thing” is like “you had one job.”

(And if you make two things so disparate, spin one off into a sub)

In addition to screening for BMI, yes.

Old VWs just had a mark on the speedo telling you what gear to be in. So you kinda shift around the marker. So easy.

There is – jabber and jingle. And for a ver-ry brief few weeks, Google’s jabber/jingle worked openly with Facebook’s, and everyone could message each other. And then BOTH arbitrarily broke it with some sparkle-junkie resume-bait software 'up’grade and neither worked with anything else after that.

It was glorious.

I knew a bunch of people [who] were teachers, but left for tech jobs…

I know someone who taught near San Fran at some posh high-paying private school for tech princes because her 4yr 🇨🇦 degree got her an excellent post.

Then she left, but not for tech. She met a guy and moved back to Sweden with him. She’s been teaching 5th grade for 22 years now, and is set to retire as a .SE resident on full pension. Him too. They’re young and their kids will almost be out of secondary school. They intend to do a LOT of rail travel.

I don’t know why US teachers stay on the job. There is demand and opportunity and safety in much better environments where they do pay almost acceptably for the job.

“explained” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.

You papered something, but I didn’t see an explanation per se.

Try again? Start by pointing to where the Dems started their insurrection, so I can compare.

Here’s the weird thing.

I’ve been telecommuting for 23 years. I’ve never been able to just roll outta bed and put in a full day. If it’s scheduled then I’m showered and dressed and ready to go; just in shorts and a tee vs khakis and a fucking polo.

The only indulgence is on a o5oo wakeup I’m not shaving lest I lose an eyebrow or an ear. Even in our basic training it was o520.

But yeah, no smelly sweatpants for me.

to much authoritarianism

Cheers! Weirdest toast, though.