
You must have not said the right magic words, or said them incorrectly
You must have not said the right magic words, or said them incorrectly
New gender-neutral toilet just announced
“Hard cases make bad laws”
Whatever one thinks of Gawker, its demise is a footnote next to the precedent it set in muzzling investigative journalism that discomfits the powerful.
Also a union-buster from way back, IIRC.
The light/dark face meme, with “aren’t the canals pretty” and “cats that fall in can’t climb out and drown”
Not all heroes wear capes
I wonder whether behavioural data (such as how much time one spends on social media, view/like/comment/post ratios, how late one stays up, sentiment analysis of comments, etc.) are enough for social media/adtech surveillance systems to infer hormonal cycles from. If so, one can expect ads and targeted content to change across the board (on other services, cold-calls by telemarketers and such) depending on estimated cycle phase, and conditions that disrupt the cycle (such as pregnancy, menopause or various illnesses) to be inferrable from online activity, with the obvious consequences.
What kind of mushrooms did you put in it?
From what I understand, Coldplay was what played in suburban minivans 20 years ago when the drivers were driving their kids to taekwondo practice.
Also, apparently they’re the one band that’s not officially Christian Rock that’s huge with US Christians.
As someone said, the problem with Australia is not that its culture is descended from convicts but that its culture is descended from jailers.
Kovid is a plausible Indian name (the developer of Calibre is named Kovid Goyal). Not sure if spelling it with a C is common, though.
If they’re going to enforce that rule impartially, they’ll have to ban Crusader Kings III as well.
They spoke in codes. A lot of those hokey greeting cards from the Victorian era, with specific flowers and chaste, maudlin sentiments, were probably widely understood as codes for the most torrid of passions.
Listening to sad playlists is a good sign: it shows that at least you feel something.
“encompassed all of Poland” except for the half or so taken by Prussia/Germany and the Habsburg/Austro-Hungarian Empire.
I once caught a cab in Belfast and, in the 15 or so minutes, the driver revealed he was a former paramilitary fighter, and recounted a conspiracy theory about the sinking of the Titanic having been faked as an insurance scam.
Means of cisport include swings, rocking chairs and smaller amusement park rides.
Also, they’d have to censor them depending on whether the characters are closely related enough to classify them as illegal porn