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When in a foreign country you are in their back yard and must abide by their laws. In Canada, fr'ex, there is no right to bear arms: https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/2010/10/ontario-court-confirms-no-right-to-bear-arms-in-canada-supreme-court-will-not-hear-appeal/

Not too terribly surprising. A decent chunk of the decline is probably due to the initial wave of users now being acclimated to "the hot new thing" instead just blindly fumbling around.

GCSE ~= Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry A level ~= Analysis, Calculus, and Statistics

Openly political ads also include a "paid for by <insert organization here> on behalf of <insert candidate/issue here>" as part of what gets sent.

That's one of the very few positive things I can say about Nazi Germany. The Autobahns inspired an interstate highway system better than the already extensive US Route system and various state highway systems.

Could be an honest belief that's actually true. Remember, history is written by the winners to make themselves look good.

Twitter is never going to be an "anything goes free-for-all". Just like TS isn't and never will be. There will be limits on what's allowed.

Dave Matthews is also white and from South Africa: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/life-as-a-black-dave-matthews-band-fan/2013/07/26/cc775722-f554-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_story.html I couldn't find video of it, but he once ranted to the audience that yes, he is African and don't...

My surname is complete bullshit which means "from a forest village".

I will trust a drug addict who says she needs a few dollars and my car's cigarette lighter so she can take "a hit of something hard" before I'll trust someone like Bankman. She's honest about what she's up to. He is not.

The grand jury which indicted Leo Frank also - of their own accord, the prosecutor didn't ask them to - considered Jim Conley's culpability and decided not to indict him for any crime at a time and place where someone saying "the black guy did it" basically let a guilty as hell white guy off the...

What's really interesting about that is the all-white juries, police, and prosecution in pre-WWI Georgia going "Nope, the black guy didn't do it. The jewish guy with an Ivy League college education did."

Now, that right there is masterful trolling. The bait was taken "hook, line, and sinker". 🤣 I wonder how much Elon paid the pair for the photo op. Whatever it was, it was money well spent.

Back then the only way to keep stored fresh water safe to drink for an extended period of time in a wooden cask was to add some alcohol to it. The other option was boiling it before drinking it so you were sure it's safe. That required fires, which the RN kept to a minimum because the ships...

... and injure themseves when the trip and land on the pointy end of the shovel.

I work for an engineering firm. He're the free meals we get: - lunch meetings - the office Christmas party - there's deadline and a bunch of people are staying late - when you're out of town on business you get a per diem Practically everything else is on you. Smallest violins from me as well.

They're sorta acting like profesional athletes who complain about unfair competition. Um, yeah, you lost and a whole lot of cheating - on both sides - didn't get caught.

Journalists are storytellers who think that their accounts of what happened are the absolute truth. Little Cassandra standing over there that no one will ever believe is actually the one who knows what happened and is more than glad to inform you of the events.

Chud is an acyronym for "Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller". Bud means "friend".

The site owner getting banned is a hilarious "fuck you" to people who think that they are above the rules.