Ugh. I had what I think was a bout of COVID a few weeks ago. Not fun. Hope you feel better soon

Reading your posts today has been more than normally depressing.

:(

Has an excellent Youtube channel ad well :)

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting free expression thereof..."

Seems pretty clear to me.

There are of course legit discussions about the boundaries, but uh ... this is NOT one of them.

Look at JJ just humblebragging about being in Curaçao. :)

Hope you're having a good and productive time.

(btw my autocorrect wanted to replace the ç with a mere c - bad autocorrect!)

That's a fun name for a store,.and nice catch.

Oh I agree wholeheartedly with your disdain for many on the right. I share it!

Only, in my country I see many on the left do just that. With nothing quite as extreme as what you are dealing with over there, but if they are not prepared to stand up on lesser matters...

I hope to be proved wrong.

This may be heretical, but if and when the tables turn you may be saddened (but probably not surprised) how many people who label themselves progressive actually prove full of fault and willing to go with the ideological flow because it is convenient.

I am more or less equidistant between German-speaking Progressive Intellectuals and American Progressive Democrats.

By which I take my random postings have it slightly confused!

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who", or "Transformers."

Now I am imaging you Carl cycling up the side of some mountain listening to Aeschylus on some earbuds as you do so.

@matthewstiegler.bsky.social Riffing your post of yesterday :) Nerdiness knows no bounds!

I suppose the operative word might be "yet". Depending at what point we are in the play.

Pride.

The arc of a Greek tragedy is that through the arrogance and pride of the protagonist a failing happens and everything falls apart.

Whether that is a good fit you would know better than me, but I bet that's the arc they are thinking of.

Reading a book about the Royal Navy's use of fishing trawlers and drifters in the world wars, and it's truly fascinating.

I was not completely ignorant of their existence prior, but will freely confess I knew very little. It's nice to learn more about them, and those who served on them

I can't speak for the US military of course, but if [insert several family members] who served were ordered to buy tickets watch a biopic - well the language would not be very polite.

So let me introduce you to @dreadships.bsky.social, who for some reason has a (probably unhealthy) fascination for the French pre-dreadnought era. From there you will find more naval related channels.

Ugh. Hoping it turns out that it was caught in time for a good eventual outcome, but oof. Sending you an emotional internet cup of tea with shortbread fingers.

One of my favourite things about the late Sir Terry Pratchett was that when he was asked why he had six monitors on his desk, he replied that it was because he did not have room for 8!

The world does, in fact, need more (decent human being) lawyers.

Whether Virginia is worth your suffering I know not, but hopefully your clients will make it worthwhile.

4 monitors on their computer - nice!

*Sigh*

It will forever be a mystery to me why otherwise fine folk waste perfectly good dough, cheese, and other ingredients on the monstrosity that is pizza

:)

That sounds like a somewhat suboptimal strategy tbh. Right up there with me finding time go watch The Mandalorian in 2021 via breaking my leg.

Hope you why better soon.

I've seen variations of that play out time and again. It's very depressing.

30 years ago where I live there was a shortage of bus drivers. Company just couldn't recruit. Then when the EU expanded they managed to hire a bunch of Poles and Czechs (iirc) and then the people who had been complaining about there not being enough bus drivers now complained about the bus drivers.

Terra Invicta is a really excellent game to create a faux history narrative.

There's no humour in this.

A man died because of his actions, and this verdict won't bring him back. I hope it gives his family some finality though, and I'm glad the jury saw through the clever legal defence of [checks notes] "he's totally responsible for it, we'd just rather you let him off".

I do still love his film of Richard III.

It wasn't a sword.

It was just a sparkling metallic polyhedron with potentially sharp edges.

Reminds me of the Vault Tec salesman in Fallout 4