Some very small children didn’t know whether to cheer or cry…

… But first, let’s shoot fireballs at it!

I remember that, I thought it was poetic. I also remember the pearl clutching outrage.

Though a few visits ago at my local zoo two of the orangutans were beating the shit out of a seagull for fun, with naught outrage.

So there’s probably a double standard built-in.

a rare bombing of American citizens by U.S. civilian authorities

rare.

Though today we get:

Find out what these big four names were convicted of!

That’s like having google make a pizza with everything in my fridge then they complain that I also keep the dog’s food in there.

… A sunny disposition?

“42”

“The answer to life the universe and everything is 42!?”

“Yes, I checked it quite thoroughly.”

…

“But what was the actual question?”

Alternatively, garbage in, garbage out.

OMG that’s even an absolute scale!

“Somebody shit in my pants.”

It’s correct, as much as any English is correct, but not typically spoken naturally like that.

The press (newspapers) has an idiosyncratic grammar, probably born of maximising space in a newspaper column. Headlines are often grammatical nightmares, body copy less so.

One could think of it as a form of semantic compression.

I too am an etymology geek, I had to look up “aptronym” (I already knew there was a word for it, but couldn’t remember it) but already knew “patronym”. I can occasionally work out the approximate Latin roots of words and take a stab at what to search for.

Regarding names’ positions moving around… that’s just people. People name their children all sorts of stupid things that eventually become normal.

…but not the slice of ham/meat/whatever beside it?

distraction 100

There’ll be elections, just like in North Korea and Russia. Totally legit, proper elections with no fraud at all, honest.

Jackson is a patronymic last name: Jack’s son.

Smith is an aptronymic last name: a smith.

So yeah, bang on.

… Next time. You get to change it next time.

Unless y’all count bullets, which cost money, as speech.

I trialled both a while ago, chose ummich asits face recognition was superior.

There were other reasons, but I’ve forgotten them.

“Somebody shit in my pants.”

There’s lots of good explanations of what the US Constitution allows… but they don’t actually matter!

No matter which branch of government (executive, judicial, or legislature) have the power to “do away with pardons” the same has the power to bring them back.

In parliamentary systems this is called the “supremacy of parliament”.

So even if Biden could issue an executive order to stop pardons then Trump can just executive order them back.

I bought a refurbished SFF PC and put a PCIe NIC in it. Installed opnSense.

Cheap as chips. Supremely powerful.