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The Roma do that as well: their demonym means “men” in Romani.

Before or after the US dropped bats surgically implanted with incendiary devices on Tokyo?

Apparently China has conspicuously displayed similar vessels near Taiwan recently.

also, reggae songs

Being too centrally located can be a curse (see also: the “Holy Land” in the Middle East)

That reminds me of the story of the South American dictator who was so despised that, when he was deposed and sentenced to death, every member of the firing squad independently decided to “accidentally” aim for the wrong side of his chest, denying him a quick death.

If your cat relieves themself outside of their litter tray, something is probably out of sorts: perhaps they’re distressed by something in their environment, or otherwise have some health issues. The cat’s litter-tray instinct normally makes them uniquely suited to indoor living.

Not pictured: the enormous red bear with a bushy moustache looming over to the northwest

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Theoretically, they believe in the same Abrahamic God as Ronald Reagan, and while one can differ on the details, one can’t deny their commitment to traditional family values

The 52% of the UK who voted for Brexit are, by all accounts, hopping mad about the metric system (or the “Napoleonic system” as some of them call it) and being forced to buy goods (other than milk and beer) in the supermarket measured in litres and grams. The Brits mocking Americans for measuring things in blue whales or monster trucks or whatever aren’t those people.

The Australian Aboriginal civilisation did. It worked well for them for some 40,000 years, until people who discovered filing taxes (and writing, and building surpluses that could be spent on employing specialists, developing technologies including transport, large-scale agriculture and warfare) came along and essentially subjugated them.

Given how Facebook aggressively guard their assets (i.e. their users’ contents and relationships), I imagine keeping this working would be a constant game of cat and mouse.

There’s a reason bipedal war machines have never been a thing: the legs are an attack surface and a half. Shoot the knee out, or just trip one over, and whatever’s inside is essentially canned meat.

Which is another good argument for decentralising generation; lots of small- to medium-scale renewable generators distributed around the area in which power is consumed would require less transmission than a few huge generators (especially if they’re things people would rather not live near, like coal turbines or nuclear plants).

also, agrivoltaics is a thing. Judiciously placed solar panels can reduce ground heat and water use through evaporation, which can be beneficial for growing crops.

Time to stop calling hyperscale GPU farms “data centres” then. There’s a difference between housing a few exabytes of spinning disks with enough compute to run S3 APIs and PHP servers and enough GPU power to continuously statistically correlate all the world’s data to better generate slop from.