The difference between a linguist and a normal person is that a normal person thinks that Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either

Vaccines are a bloody miracle. We eradicated smallpox in my lifetime because of them. We were on the verge of doing the same to polio. These are *miracles*, yet these purblind fools are about to drag us all back into a dark age of needless deaths and misery.

It makes me quite, quite cross.

You know what, arm the alligators and tell them mount that coup. They can’t do a worse job of running the place.

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All Power To The Circuits!

Fair!

Also: in fairness, Joe Biden was probably the right person for 2020. He did the job.

And, truth be told, I think Bernie probably wasn’t too bothered by having someone he could work with on friendly-grumpy terms in the WH. He was staunch in 2024, after all.

Now, you *have* just made the Welsh unhappy there.

But, as against that, it’s 6N week, so God speed the good work.

Now, that noted, this is someone relatively high profile doing it, so I suppose everyone is vulnerable to someone just pulling it off with sufficient aplomb.

Oddly, I don’t think you could do it in a Library system, where because we’re not in chambers but in a shared professional space, we all more or less know each other.

There are no part-time judges here.

The thing is: that is a Court. A moot isn't, and, instinctively, wearing the robes of an advocate as judge in a moot just feels *wrong*.

Change to summer plumage starting on the heads.

RWC final; Snyman came on for Sous, Kleyn for Etzebeth. That pretty much gives you the indication of rulesets.

They're very, very different players (which is why both were playing together in Munster). Snyman plays a looser role facilitated by the role set that JK plays. Offloads v. cleanouts, really.

Admittedly, Snyman only actually *plays* that in green, rather than in blue, but that's not a me problem.

But the stirring is the fun bit!

Everyone has an inner five year old, no-one should ever lose contact with that inner five year old, and stirring that leads to good food is one of the best ways to make sure you don't.

Ah, Gussy White-Shoes.

There was a bullet dodged.

Recently seen saying Argentina needed to "find stability with Milei".

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Look if you’re a politician and post disinformation and then delete it without clarifying, you are telling on yourself loudly about how you do business

He's there as a role-match for Etzebeth, allowing Etzebeth to go all-out for 55 before bringing on Jean Klein as the role-match.

As seen in the 2023 RWC final.

Just one look at those pots and pans, and you know that they have never been on a hob or in an oven.

What a damned waste.

True, and that's a fair comment for context.

But still - the human leg works the same both sides of the Atlantic.

A risotto takes about twenty minutes start to finish, you can make them with pretty much any combination you want and anything left over is lunch.

And it’s fun, too. Cooking is fun, and it’s a good thing. To be a good cook is something to be aspired to, and you learn it by practice.

Puttanesca is, at least apocryphally, created as something that could be whipped up almost immediately from ingredients in a store cupboard.

Carbonara is (if not using guanciale), bacon, eggs, Parmesan and black pepper. It doesn’t even take as long as cooking the pasta to make.

It’s that easy.

This really is one of those, “The European mind cannot comprehend” things, and I’m rather glad we can’t.

Walk down the damn street, for God’s sake.

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Yup, everyone else is moving on and leaving the U.S. behind.

Boom to that Mr. Hassett.

@dicknixon.bsky.social Not there, but at least seems to get that there is a there to get to, sir.

No, please. Do please try to lecture me on what constitutes hearsay and how the law of evidence works. Please do, and let’s see how this one pans out for you.

So Trump is now deploying ICE to protect government property in Democratic cities? How does that have to do with Immigration and Customs? The growth of a personal paramilitary force continues unabated.

So, when asked to present that evidence, and afforded the chance, you didn’t.

Very good.

It means you don’t know anything.

Will has given his account. There is no evidence to rebut it. You have no evidence, because animus and supposition aren’t evidence.

If you have actual evidence from those making the decision - not “Well, it must have been”, but evidence - then present it.