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Preferably with me as far from the stage as possible. In fact, I’m staying home. Enjoy.

Because he’s been on Russia’s payroll for a while (and likely his dad too), so like a stopped clock being right twice a day, when Don Jr. suggests that the US is thinking about not supporting an enemy of Russia, it might be worth thinking there’s some truth to it.

Tea. Specifically, what’s known in other parts of the world as “English Breakfast (Black) Tea”. Because I’m British and grew up with it.

Although I vary quite a bit from average. Mine’s usually decaffeinated with sweetener and soy milk for health reasons.

Kratom

uh-oh

This is one of those things that’s going to depend heavily on the sort of people the parents are, and to some extent the (adult) children.

I remember the first Christmas I woke in my own home rather than my bedroom at my parents’ house and I was simultaneously devastated and glad that my parents hadn’t broken into my home (I lived across town) to leave gifts in a pillowcase. The tradition was that it was put at the foot of the bed (or outside the door as I got older).

I was well into my 20s before I moved out, so I have no idea how long that would have continued if I’d never left. It might have required me to ask them explicitly to not do that any more.

Now I go over at some point over Christmas and we exchange gifts during the main day, or as close as possible to it.

in America

And you can almost cross out “with monopolies” too because there’s a lot of tacit price-fixing in industries where there is competition.

This. Anything that’s recognisably from a previous era, even if it’s just a hairstyle or a fashion trend, can be a re-enactment of that era if someone knowingly and willingly chooses to style themselves that way.

There’s a version of the game out there that someone made after the fact (well after; we’re talking 2020), but I couldn’t get it to accept my commands. Not even the ones it suggests in the intro screen. I’d post a link, but it might be someone’s idea of a sick joke.

If I had spare cash I’d definitely be donating to Archive.org (The Internet Archive), so instead, I try to mention them when topics like this come up.

I’d probably also donate to Linux Mint, who I assume are also non-profit, because I’ve been using their offerings for a long while at this point.

This makes me think you’re doxxing someone else by pretending to be them. All we need now is one resourceful idiot and that person’s life is going to be hell.

Lib Dems to the left of Labour? I would have thought with the Overton window shifting, they’d still be occupying a position between Labour and the Conservatives like they always have… but I guess it’s possible with some of Labour’s suspiciously Conservative decisions lately.

Well, there was a period in the 90s through to the early 2000s where we had a centre-left party (New Labour) running the show and mostly improving things, but then 9/11 and the Iraq war happened and the country went scurrying back to the Conservatives again.

The conspiracy nut that lives in my brain is convinced Putin’s taking control of Russia in 2000 has everything to do with every single bit of the above after “but then”.

We currently have New Labour (now just “Labour”) in charge again, but politically they smell an awful lot like the pre-Thatcherite Conservatives.

They’ll find a way to launch it. They’ll go back into the old Soviet mindset of throwing blini at a wall until something sticks sending cosmonaut after cosmonaut until they have a success and then pretend the others didn’t exist.

And they’ll fill the minds of young would-be cosmonauts full of propaganda and tell them that there was definitely no-one before them who died up there, especially not in pain or terror. Those were unmanned test missions. Strap yourself in, you’re going to space!

“What would ‘palindrome’ look like if it was a palindrome?”

Two. kbin.social and kbin.run (which was actually an Mbin by the time it vanished).

Interesting to compare and contrast with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe who deliberately wore a toothbrush moustache and referred to himself as “The Hitler of our time”.

Also interesting that now Mugabe is dead, there seem to be quite a few potential candidates for that title.

But, as best as I can tell, Uunona isn’t in the running there.

Will the war end if he dies?

Untrue. There are plenty of people who don’t have the means to break pseudonymity but who would gladly torment, abuse or seek retribution for some real or imagined slight from someone they can easily identify by face and name.

And it’s always worth making the truly scary ones work for it, because they’re far more likely to go for easier marks first.

Note that the same logic applies to locking your doors at home. You don’t leave your doors unlocked, right?

Wrong question. It’s “Who would I need to hide from?”

Well, no, it wouldn’t. The bods that make these decisions still live like it’s 1950 and dream of an authoritarian future of masters and slaves.

What good is The Google or The AI when you’re sipping champagne up an ivory tower or out on the ocean being waited on hand and foot on a gleaming yacht?