Indeed:

A “lasagna cell” is accidentally produced when salty moist food such as lasagna or sauerkraut is stored in a steel baking pan and is covered with aluminium foil. After a few hours the foil develops small holes where it touches the lasagna, and the food surface becomes covered with small spots composed of corroded aluminium

American car makers famously unsubsidized and holding up their own pants.

Glory to A rstotska merica

Fries and snacks slothered in mayonnaise and other sauces, like curry, ketchup and peanut sauce.

We have names for sauce combinations:

Fries and … : means fries and mayo, witch is so common it needs not saying the word.

Mayo, curry/ketchup and diced raw onion: fries special.

Mayo, peanut sauce and diced raw onion: war fries.

Fries with doner kebab, salad, garlic sauce +chilly sauce, topped with grilled cheese: fries barber parlor (because the guy that came up with it worked at a barber shop)

The French taco is incredibly silly, certainly if you consider that French supermarkets stopped selling the hard shell taco years ago as it’s not authentic (they do sell little pre formed tortilla bacs in a similar shape).

How were his banjo playing skills tho

I’d love for the holder of such blackmail material to be at the end of their lives and go full ‘fuck them al’-mode and just spill the beans

Damn illithids! Ghaik trash!

I’ll add some mouse ones: if you have thumb buttons they are next/previous page.

Mouse wheel down clicking on a link opens it in a new tab.

Mouse wheel down clicking on a tab label closes the tab (no need to hunt for the little x).

I’m currently reading Anthony Beevors ‘D-Day’… But I’m also in Normandy, so I just read that book whilst sitting on Omaha Beach, which is pretty special.

Yet!

This is the history of mankind summarized succinctly.

Yeah it’s a weird confidence in the justice of the afterlife.

If you want the maximum amount of suffering for the perpetrator (something the US justice system seems eager to) then killing them only with it if there’s a Satan grilling his ass. If their existence just ends it’s rather merciful.

So even if you are hell bent on having a punitive sentencing system (even though it’s proven to be unhelpful for everybody involved) the death sentence doesn’t make sense at all.

A life sentence where the perpetrator is kept alive for as long as possible, against their will (which is ironicall supposed the merciful thing according to the pro life folks (who also overlap with pro death sentence folk, interestingly)) is technically the most severe form of punishment.

From the hacker news comments:

https://archive.is/TJy20

I caused a minor diplomatic incident between the development organisations of the Netherlands and Germany in a small African country.

I was working for the Dutch organisation as an intern. There was a little get together of the organisations at a local bar. When introductions were made I used a WW2 term to describe our boss. I said ‘this is our ubersturmbahnfuhrer’.

This was not the right thing to say, as the leader of the German team was an ex-east German and staunch antifascist with little sense for my perceived ‘humor’. He felt personally insulted by being compared thusly and I had to shamefully go down to their offices and profusely apologize.

If you can’t get enough of Satie, are you insatieable?

I think Dubai should be high on the list. A vapid city without history that only attracts people because of being expensive.

It’s thriving die to slave labor and violent racism.

Anna Karenina. There’s no better pshychological character study of upper class Russian culture (but at the same time, about people in general).

But large businesses cannot vote, that’s so unfair!

::: spoiler

/S

Brain drain away!