You laugh now, but a hundred years after the collapse of technological civilisation, the surviving mass-produced artefacts of that lost age will be associated with great prestige and power. Imposing buildings like palaces and cathedrals will feature parts from long-lost machines as prominent architecture features to signal the power and proximity to the divine of those who commissioned them.
Things are bad man
About 500m or, if I want to go to a larger supermarket, about 2km.
There’s probably a market for targeting people matching not only a demographic category but the combination of one and attempts to keep it private, like religious conservatives who browse gay porn in incognito mode or seemingly progressive people who have right-wing views they keep secret.
Every generation thinks it invented being a wiseacre.
The great* thing about wars in the Middle East is that you can recycle old ethnic slurs just by prefixing them with “sand”
Downvoted for AI slop
Did he bring her back to the US after the war ended?
Threadbare. In cities like NYC, it approximates European transport, though is somewhat more dysfunctional. Elsewhere, you have things like “commuter rail” (like a regio/S-bahn, only with next to no off-peak service, running solely as a shuttle between CBDs and dormitory suburbs). There’s Amtrak, but it’s slow and infrequent and runs on tracks owned by freight railroads, and often is delayed by hours from waiting for freight trains to pass. Bus services have a stigma, associating them with poor (and typically non-white) people, to the point where people who have a choice avoid them, and vote to minimise the amount of their tax money that goes to pay for them. And in some Republican states, the government has scrapped even buses, replacing them with Uber vouchers mailed to households.
So yes, DB is creaking and needs investment to bring it up to scratch, but its service levels (even when wracked by delays) are utopian compared to most of the US.
Reminds me of an illustration explaining Thomas The Tank Engine as a centipede-like organism that nests in hollowed-out locomotives
Azerbaijan will go to Türkiye, while Armenia will seek closer ties with the EU.
The KGB has had a file on Krasnov since the time Putin was on their staff, so I’m sure he has a detailed guide on how to string him along, comprised of input from four decades of handlers.
Maybe if he lifts sanctions on weapons to Russia, Putin will return the favour and there’ll be peace. If not, maybe giving them some Tomahawks will sweeten the deal.
r/oldschoolcool
Helena Bonham-Carter, being British, didn’t know that “grade school” was much younger than one would expect from such a line until after the film was released.
As the age verification technology would forcibly deanonymise all EU users, opening a huge new vein of behavioural surveillance data to the zuckerbots.
A social liberal is a neoclassical liberal who has been arrested. A neoclassical liberal is a social liberal who got a larger than expected tax bill.
Is Jesus wearing a bra?
Most normal lemming pick-up line
Apparently the Argentine equivalent is something like “take your hat off, you’re not in this photo”