The fact that one of them is a guest at Nigel Farage’s birthday party is the cherry on the shit sundae. They’re basically Hipster Spoons
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Will the Android Signal client work on it, or does getting one involve forfeiting any means of communication with people who don’t know what a XMPP server is?
There’s always Mikkeller. The Shoreditch one’s co-owner is by all accounts a lot nicer than Watt. Indeed, he’s on record as promising to never let you down.
mallard: … 2. (archaic) a shopaholic
“-ard” would mean not so much “excessively” as “by their/its nature”; i.e. a seed/condiment whose very nature is mustiness, a person conceived out of wedlock (which was considered a black mark on one’s character back then), one who is habitually drunk, and so on
His sentence will be a position in the Trump administration
Siri, what is the American Dream?
The US famously has a clear line of succession that goes down a long way, all the way to the Washington DC Municipal Dogcatcher or someone, and nominally is run by impartial institutions. Trump and his Supreme Court have weakened these somewhat, but they theoretically still stand, so that if a succession was triggered, there’d be considerable institutional inertia pushing to return to some form of equilibrium.
Xi’s personal power over the CCP, and in turn, the Chinese state, seems to be a lot greater. There are no judges or delegates who would push back against him, and the principles of rule are what he says they are. It was similar with Mao, whose death precipitated conflict and instability.
Apparently a lot of Victorian photographs of kittens were of dead/taxidermied ones, as the film they had wasn’t fast enough to capture live kittens.
In Rome, Caligula made his horse a senator. In America, this happened.
IIRC, “Death to _” is the idiomatic Farsi equivalent of “fuck / to hell with _” in English, to the point that drivers in Tehran traffic jams might say “death to this traffic!” without any murderous intent.
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Which is great news if you’re a Mossad agent tasked with figuring out a target’s life patterns