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Most people aren't old enough to remember what anything was like 50 years ago (median age of the UK population is 41).

It took DNA testing proving the relationship beyond any doubt to get them to do it.

Also, probably, because of lobbying by the alcoholic beverage industry; access to cannabis and hemp are the main drivers of the decline in drinking.

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Janky as hell by modern standards but in a lot of ways probably the best Elder Scrolls game! If you're on PC and comfortable with modding the graphics can be improved a fair bit: www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo...

This is the NYT insisting that the Democratic Party has to continue to be institutionally supportive of a genocidal apartheid state that wouldn't exist if it weren't propped up by billions of dollars being stolen from the US taxpayer.

Colman's English mustard is an excellent substitute and is actually what a lot of Chinese restaurants use for hot mustard, just FYI! Adding a bit of rice vinegar as well as water to the mustard powder apparently works well.

Blockbuster were in the UK for nearly 25 years; they closed the last down in 2013 (I remember going to a Blockbuster in Cardiff that was having a closing sale). They possibly weren't as popular as other options, but they were there.

The one in Virginia is pronounced "Nawfuck", actually! (By Virginians, anyway)

Part of that is that the Public Service Commission has approved six rate increases for Georgia Power (owned by the publicly traded Southern Company) in the past two years, raising the average electric bill for Georgia Power customers by over $500 per annum. People are angry.

And Hakeem Jeffries.

Bernie Sanders Rejects the Idea of a Permanent Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas: ‘They Want To Destroy Israel’ Bernie Sanders explained why he disagrees with his progressive colleagues on a ceasefire in the Gaza region, claiming 'Israel has the right to defend itself.'

Guessing you missed the previous two years where he was saying "Israel has the right to defend itself"? (it was still a genocide in December of 2023!) www.mediaite.com/media/tv/ber...

His being a Zionist ought to do that, honestly?

Charming naïveté to assume there's going to be a next Democratic administration, at this point; normalcy bias is a hell of a drug, eh?

No, they aren't, and certainly not in the way Israel is, where only Jews have full civil rights and are the only people considered in the state's Basic Law. A French citizen, born in France, to parents also born in France, is French, even if their ancestors were Tunisian. Same in USA, UK, etc.

Re Americans, that's easy: vicarious identification with Israel b/c of the USA's settler history, and American religiosity inclining USians to accept the "promised land" nonsense as literally true. Also: racism/Islamophobia. Israelis are "like us" ("Judeo-Xian values!"), Palestinians aren't.

There was also a lot of tie-in merch. I saw it at the AMC theatre at Lenox Square in Atlanta, and wandered around the mall after; there was a hat store selling Dick Tracy-branded fedoras (in both black and trademark yellow).

The influence of the English Civil War and Glorious Revolution on the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution is usually elided in the historical education most Americans get.

And as far as the Constitution goes...turns out that Patrick Henry was right: wp.cune.edu/matthewphill...

I'm pretty sure there aren't, actually, or at least very few (ASD is literally a disqualifying condition for enlistment in the IDF, as it is for the US military; if you have an actual diagnosis you likely can't enlist).

I don't see that they are, honestly. Ask a Trump supporter what they think of immigrants, or a Zionist what they think of Palestinians. Those are categories of persons whose humanity it is socially unacceptable to acknowledge for those groups.

That isn't what I said. However I think it is undeniable that most people take social cues re the parameters of acceptable behaviour from socially dominant members of their group. (Witness the increase in racism and bigotry in the Trump era.)

Not OP, but I think that neurotypical people don't care about other people if caring about other people is socially unacceptable. That's a core part of neurotypicality; most people are sheep whose social behaviour is dictated by what is viewed as "acceptable".

It has a built in option to use an AI chatbot (from a third party, not supplied by Mozilla), and it's easily disabled; apart from that, Firefox is much less intrusive than Chrome as far as privacy goes (Chrome is basically spyware, at this point).

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Or just download Firefox which doesn't have the AI bullshit: www.firefox.com/en-US/?redir...

Saudi Arabia accounts for *four percent* of US crude oil imports: www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet...

More like "smooth brain".

I saw a car *catch fire* when on a walk a few years ago; probably a ruptured fuel line (it was a mid-80s Benz SL convertible), flames underneath that spread, driver got out before the passenger compartment went up; luckily I had my phone and there was a fire station literally 3 minutes away.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, spent over a decade on Ritalin, then got an autism diagnosis at 25, and no more ADHD meds, because ADHD and ASD they were viewed as mutually exclusive diagnoses in the then-current DSM IV, and now in my 40's I'm back on Ritalin again.

Not where I'm from, but where a lot of my family and my girlfriend are from (Maryland and Texas, respectively): Bowie (pronounced "Boo-ee")

The US doesn't use the nuclear sword of Damocles as an implicit threat to its supposed "allies", though.

Makes me glad I uninstalled Spotify when they decided to give Joe Rogan a hundred million dollars.

Yeah, only a complete fuckwit thinks "some of my ancestors lived here 2,000 years ago, therefore I have a god-given right to this land for eternity" is a reasonable argument.