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FIFA currently struggling to find a candidate for next year's Peace Prize.

Kind of a toss-up whether it was the Enabling Act of 23 March or the Reichstag Fire Decree of February 28 that turned Nazi Germany into a dictatorship but this is just quibbling over a technicality.

As a reminder, the Enabling Act which gave Hitler his powers passed only with the support of six other political parties, all of which would be banned along with every other political party in less than four months, under the powers of the same Act.

Thank God for the instruction manual, without which I would be helpless

The Grim Reaper blushes deeply.

There is a pardon mechanism: "the Royal Perogative of Mercy," but I think we're very unlikely to see it exercised, and in any case, in the modern era it has never been applied pre-emptively, I.e. before someone has been convicted.

It's just possible that the FIFA Peace Prize Committee may have been a tad premature.

Country without socialised healthcare is sending socialised healthcare to a country with socialised healthcare.

No one's mentioned Bill & Ted yet?

Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?

And for the opposite to this, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) was a rebellious act to prevent governments from snooping on citizens. Now, governments use it to encrypt their data.

TOR 'onion routing' was developed to enable governments to hide secrets from the people. Now, it is used by the people to hide secrets from governments.

Auto-Tune was designed to clean up seismic survey data. From there, it was but a short step to Ke$ha.

Viagra was developed as a heart medicine.

‘Right about everything’: Liz Truss tweets photo of meeting with Trump Unclear how encounter between Britain’s shortest-serving PM and US president was initiated and how long it lasted

And if there's one person whose judgement you can trust, it's Liz Truss.

‘Right about everything’: Liz Truss tweets www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sorry I commented “AI slop” on the photos of your new baby

"Got a source for that?"

My ex-wife didn't believe the Moon could be seen during daytime, because she was sure she'd never seen it in her then 40 years.

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

You may need to be Irish or British:

You can hear the rising panic in her voice when he says, "Let's play the clip".

Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.

www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

With regard to the "power lines cause cancer" thing, something often neglected by those who claim there is is that power lines often run through poorer neighbourhoods, and there is a well-established statistical link between poverty and disease, particularly cancer.

Sometimes, judges' opinions are masterpieces of the written word.

Screenshot of a newsreader, chyron reads "Iran & Israel condemn Trump's comments"

Trump unites the Middle East:

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Someone has to say it: this movie invented the jump scare. www.youtube.com/watch

Not much, I imagine, since no one seems to have gone and watched it

Every time a Trump follower falls, a troupe of Oompa Loompas needs to appear and sing us a song about morality.

Maybe everyone will have their own opinion on this, but after years of him being one of the most reported-upon and studied persons in the world, I still don't know: does Trump genuinely believe his own bullshit, or deep down, does he know it's false? It seems impossible to tell.