America! Fuck yeah!

I can vouch for Mythic Beasts

So, sort of like the segment-laying part of tunnel-boring machines, only flipped and scaled up?

That sounds really… economically anxious

Somebody ought to sit him down and explain the Mercator projection to him.

TIL there was a Kirby vacuum cleaner company

Maybe he could get the chatbot to play not only his girlfriend but their kids as well. Then he can beam proudly as he shows people a chat window on his phone. You do you, buddy!

You know the saying “behind every sign there’s a story”? It may apply to laws as well.

Also, almost no Icelanders have last names (in the sense of family names). Most have just a patronymic that translates as “son/daughter of (father’s name)” (i.e., Björk’s father was named Guðmundur), which is why references to Icelanders in the news refer to them by given name. As the Icelandic name pool is limited (there’s a naming committee which must approve all new names, and they’re somewhat conservative), the population register also includes people’s nicknames.

The Lucrezia Borgia clause

“Hey baby, are you the British economy? Because I’d like to give you a weak pound”

I wonder how long until they quietly resume running them

And this somehow arrives at a highly refined piece of code rather than the software equivalent of Habsburg Jaw?

I thought that there had been historically a boxing match the day after Christmas, and while the name remains, the actual barbaric spectacle went the way of bear-baiting due to people becoming more averse to violence.

They have toilets with taps and basins feeding into the cistern, at least in Japan

She’ll be the next DNC-backed vice presidential candidate, because big tent or something.

Do cats get any nutritional benefit from rice? I thought they were obligate carnivores.

he’s the opposite of Rowling, who lives in a castle and hates only certain minority groups

Paramedics refer to them as “donorcycles” for a reason

Surely when number goes up far enough, it magically gains sentience and godlike powers