To be honest, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is meant to be interpreted as “You’re taking too long to finish.”

Hell yeah, fuck Bush.

I guess the logic is that it’s a subsystem of Windows for the purpose of running Linux apps.

Agree though that it’s a confusing name. I remember thinking the same thing about Windows Subsystem for Android (the compatibility layer to run Android apps in Windows)

Republicans and Democrats are only in the US. What is the rest of the world doing?

Before anyone assumes “ethnic cleansing” strategies like forced sterilization or migration don’t count as genocide, I propose the definitions of genocide outlined in the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

© Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume 78/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf

From my understanding of how they operate, it’s less “Everybody is lying except this one source” and more “Everybody in my bubble appears to be saying these things, so it must be true.”

The strategy utilizes armies of bots and bad actors whose purpose is to infiltrate and influence specific demographics on social media into accepting the Russia-supported narrative. The people who buy the narrative will then in turn parrot it to other members of their social circles to legitimize it. So when the western media outlets and elected officials who took Russia’s money repeat these same ideas, they are more easily accepted as true.

I am not PugJesus but maybe I can fill in context.

Odysseus: Legendary hero of The Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus famously lied to a cyclops who had captured him to make the cyclops believe that his name was “Nobody”, and so when Odysseus took an opportunity to blind the cyclops and escape, the cyclops could only say “Nobody did this/Nobody is escaping” or something to that effect when he went to get help, which went ignored.

Orpheus: Another Greco-Roman mythological figure, a musician who was skilled at playing a lyre. In one myth, his wife Eurydice died, and so he set off to the underworld to find her soul and bring her back to life. He visited Hades and played some tunes, and Hades was impressed enough to strike a bargain that he would be able to retrieve her soul and guide her back to the world of the living as long as he swore not to look at her until they arrived. Things went well enough basically right up until the very end when he had one moment of doubt and looked back at her, at which point she vanished back to the depths of the underworld forever.

“Liar” = Odysseus, “Lyre” = Orpheus

“Looking back (Orpheus), Nobody (Odysseus) found this funny.”

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

All of the Russian state-sponsored misinformation campaigns have probably paid for themselves ten times over with how strongly they’ve succeeded in tipping the scales of geopolitics in Russia’s favor.

Found the full statue if anyone else was curious what the whole thing looked like:

Workers and the customers. Walmart does have a captive audience in some regions where they priced all local businesses out of competition and they’re often the cheapest option available for lower-income shoppers without much disposable income.

I like Only Yesterday. There’s just something appealing about getting away from a stifling job in the city and just going out to live in the country for fun, even if just for a week.

Palestinian philosopher and writer Edward Said was also famously in favor of a one-state solution which granted equal rights to Palestinians.

I think that is honestly the only way forward, but feel like it will take extended intervention by a foreign government or international organization to enforce. And I am guessing that really means extended at this point.

John Marshall Roberts has made his decision, now let him enforce it.

• Andrew Jackson Donald Trump

Boomer humor

Firewall issue perhaps?

I have some links fail to load while I’m at work unless I use a VPN. Should do all browsing at work from VPN, to be honest.

I haven’t binged a show in a long time, but really the only times I ever did were when I was trying to catch up to something ongoing.

That being said, I doubt I even could if I wanted to these days. I just don’t feel like I have the time that I used to.

The trend of some shows releasing episodes in blocks has been nice. I can divide episodes up during the week, or if I find myself with a bit of time, watch 2 or 3 in one go. No more feeling like I need to catch up immediately to avoid spoilers.

Ahh okay, I think I get what you’re getting at. It’s like how if you dry off after a shower, your towel is damp and not wet because you’re just looking at saturation.

I’d be surprised if other languages call the air “wet” because that’s an English word. In Chinese, we’d call humidity 湿度 which means “degree of wet”.

But then what is humidity if not a measurement of how wet the air is?

If air with 0% humidity can be called dry, then air with humidity can be called wet.

Language isn’t perfect and it’s often contextual. If someone wants to describe a property of water based on a newer usage in physics, maybe choose a newer word.

I mean I’d say that counts as wet.