You jest, but en passant to the king is a thing in many chess variants. Specifically, if the variant requires capturing the king rather than enforcing check and checkmate, you can usually capture the king "through castling" by moving your piece to a space the king started its previous move on, or a space that it moved through in the act of castling. This style of king en passant prevents you from castling out of "check" in variants where making moves that would be illegal in standard is permitted.
Definitely seems to be going around. I went out tonight to a big get-together, but half the people who were going to come didn't, due to illness.
The argument isn't that they shouldn't vote because they're conservative. It's that they shouldn't vote because they literally won't experience the long term consequences of their decisions.
My personal preference is to allow 16 year olds to vote without creating a maximum voting age, but if in some weird world the only way to allow 16 year olds to vote was to ban those over 80 from voting, I would support that in a heartbeat.
Being almost exclusively a bus and ferry user for the last 10+ years, I've just recently moved to where trains are the more optimal option. It feels weird not to be able to thank the driver when I get off.
This doesn't make up for the abysmal 30 minute frequency in peak hour.
Does your area still use cash for bus fares? In 2025? Where I am it feels like we're behind because only this year did they start letting you tap on with your debit card or phone. We've had transit cards since like 2007.
Honestly self checkout is the bare minimum for me these days. One of the two duopoly supermarkets in Australia rolled out "scan and go" where you can scan it with an app on your phone and pay on your phone and just walk out (with the occasional random inspection to deter theft) and it was such a huge improvement over even regular self checkout. I was gutted when they announced that option was being deprecated due to low uptake.
If we're talking about Canberra, wait 'til you hear about Mike Hall. His killer didn't face any punishment despite driving an unroadworthy vehicle and obviously not paying attention, to be able to not notice a cyclist in reflective clothing on a straight wide road. He was also probably speeding, but police used an outdated method of estimating speed which declared he wasn't speeding.
I don't know, but I can't imagine it's very large. Only things significant enough to be chains or similar have entries, and it's one per chain not per node. Then each Wikidata entry might have a few to a few dozen akas at most. I'd be surprised if it's more than a few dozen megabytes to download the entire globe's data. Less if you only get your region.
Not sure how they found it. I don't think they polished it up at all. I suspect the different condition is probably because of which side was face up and which was down. Not sure which though.
So apparently our trains only run half hourly even in peak hour? I've never been near a train station before but omg this is terrible frequency.
Oh, interesting new subdomain. Is that a Friendica instance?
Isn't this really more of an inaptonym than an antonym?