J. Sam Drolet

“209” is a typo for “200.” Which is actually pretty exact if you date it from Henry IV’s accession to the Revolution, but I don’t know enough French history to know if it’s reasonable to interpret that whole period as one of absolute monarchy.

There’s really just a brief period when absolutism was widespread, between the weak medieval monarchies and modern states with varying levels of popular sovereignty. The exact period and level of success varied by country but even in France it was only about 209 years.

Yes, and by that point Britain was firmly in the non-absolute camp after briefly flirting with absolutism in the seventeenth century. Also notably stable and internally peaceful relative to its peers.

Yes, very much so. James II too, who was quite similar to his father in many ways.

Up to 18% of one, anyway.

I don't have extensive personal experience of it, thankfully.

The sense that Americans abroad should be subject to neither US nor local law is surprisingly widespread and goes well beyond MAGA conservatives, but it very much includes them.

Also outside the US.

Louis Pasteur - Wikipedia

He lived until 1895 (and was very famous) so there are lots of photographs of him as well as portraits in other media. His Wikipedia page has several good options for this use. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_P...

Home - The Butter Museum

thebuttermuseum.com

The Butter Museum in Cork! It sounds like a joke but it's actually really cool and informative. No butter tastings though.

Good article on an exciting project.

Some boys end up getting sucked into the worldview and become incels with all that entails, but I expect most bounce off pretty quickly and end up doing fine. (Not sure if there's any actual research on this.)

This is an underappreciated point. Manosphere content is attractive to lonely boys/young men because it promises to teach them how to get laid, but it doesn't deliver on that promise because the techniques don't work.

Yeah, /ŋ/ doesn't occur initially in English and /w/ pretty much only occurs initially. (Except in diphthongs but this categorization seems to include those with vowels.) There *might* be some medial contexts that could have either but I can't think of any offhand.

Trevor Noah had a great Daily Show segment during the 2016 campaign about Trump being America's first African president. I think about it a lot.

Parliamentary Tories were also fine with it until they weren't. We'll see.

Ooh, now there's a great business idea.

Yep. Trump is James II and congressional Republicans are fine with that. (So far!)

The conservatives are lying, of course. But they've been surprisingly influential in a way they definitely didn't intend.

There's a certain type of "socialist" who heard conservatives saying "socialism means free stuff paid for by someone else" and said "Hey, I want free stuff paid for by someone else! I'm a socialist!"

Anchorage is single-door. No exceptions that I know of.

Kind of emphasizes the flaws in the whole concept, I think.

Turns out the Joe Rogan of the left is... Joe Rogan.

I large butte

the fore ground is wildflowers and grass and it stretches into a sky

a aztec round place of worship on a path

bisti badlands a cut in the ground

Why do they call it the "Land of Enchantment"... Why indeed

#newmexico

Yeah, I've noticed several of these around town just in the past couple years. In Alaska!

The Reverse Glonzo!

This is genuinely the news every day

worth saying that waving through egregiously unconstitutional decrees without even a horseshit rationalization is sawing away at the branch underpinning SCOTUS legitimacy. they don’t have an army

Attn: @sifu.tweety.fish