Should check out the Gulikit controllers. Not only do they not suffer from stick drift, they’re the same form factor as an Xbox controller but without the MS bullshit. Was just using one in Linux not even an hour earlier.

Or that he’s so gung ho on trying to settle Mars.

Isn’t FIFA widely regarded as one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet? I mean, the article isn’t wrong, but that ship sailed a long time ago, it’s a bit late to be acting like this is bombshell news.

The specific issue with heat protection is that some counties were trying to pass legislation to provide better heat protection, and the state government preempted that effort by passing legislation banning counties from making heat protection legislation.

This will be the plot of Oceans 14.

It’s also just a good policy in general. Anytime you receive a communication that’s prompting you to do something that you weren’t expecting to receive you should ignore any links, phone numbers, replies, etc. in that communication and instead reach out using a known good mechanism. Doing that one thing stops the overwhelming majority of scams in their tracks.

I suppose the real question here is, is Xi bothered enough to actually do something about it, or is this just more grumbling.

If anything people living in a dictatorship are even less responsible. At least in democracies the people have a theoretical say in things to a certain extent. Not only does the public not have a say in a dictatorship, but they often don’t even have the option to leave it. E.G. China confiscating their citizens passports to prevent them from fleeing the country.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Europe also had sanctions in place against Russia at this point now as well? Seems likely this would be an issue in pretty much any NATO country not just the US.

Short answer, yes. Slightly longer answer yes but there might be statutory limits on the cumulative fine as well as it depends what kind of a mood the prosecutor is in. Odds are he’d just receive a slap on the wrist, a nominal fine, and be told to stop being a dumbass.

Talk about making it hard to find the details. Neither the FDA nor the NPR article has the list of products in it. I finally found the list by using the link to the manufacturer website in the NPR article. Both the NPR article and the FDA website look like they copy and pasted the manufacturers press release and left off the only important piece of info in it.

Edit: weirdly the treehouse foods article list this as the original. This recall is seriously weird, with the linked PDF going through an ad tracking affiliate link and ultimately ending in a broken link.

Does NK have that many spare soldiers to offer? Seems like every other week there’s more news of rampant starvation in NK, and it’s not a particularly large country to begin with. I’d think they would need all the bodies at home they can get. On the other hand maybe they’re just counting on the Russians to feed them.

Hmm, interesting, I’ve always heard them referred to as “The Church of Latter Day Saints” or LDS, I’ve never heard the longer version you used. I wonder if that’s an intentional choice by some of the other Christian denominations to try to distance themselves from the Mormons.

Any headline with the words “Trump donated” in it is false unless it’s some sort of convoluted tax avoidance or money laundering scheme.

Well ultimately I think it’s because the differences between the various Christian sects are very minor and trivial. At the end of the day any Christian church is going to agree on all the major points, they’ve just spent nearly 2000 years bikeshedding the unimportant details. In contrast the various “satanic” churches are very different organizations. I think a better comparison would be if for instance Hubbard had decided to call his scam religion Christianology instead, and then you’d see little notes popping up all over the place that say “The church of X is not affiliated with Christianology”. The closest to that that has actually happened is with the Mormon church, but since that doesn’t have Christ or Christian in the name anywhere the difference is obvious.

Another important factor is that TST is actually attempting to promote itself and the beneficial work it does so it cares about its image. Not being associated with CoS and its checkered past is important to cut off some of the drama that could be stirred up by people conflating the two even if CoS is largely defunct now.

Part of the reason is they have very different goals from each other. The Satanic Temple is primarily a secular organization that promotes scientific principles, separation of church and state, and education. The Church of Satan on the other hand has a long and often troubled history with an at best ambiguous take on secularism and promotes a mild form of hedonism. Compared to most religions the Church of Satan is fairly benign, although still far more controversial than TST.

Same thing at a smaller scale happens all over the place as executive and management teams packed with yes men and brown nosers feed a steady stream of bullshit up the ladder and minimize anything negative, particularly if it’s a direct result of the upper level managements decisions. So many absolutely horrendous decisions could be headed off if someone had the balls to tell the CEO he’s a fucking idiot and no way what he just proposed is going to work.

Also on the whole “the king his book” thing, I think the video kind of agrees with you but in an awkward sort of way. He points out that the belief that it’s an abbreviation for “his” was incorrect, but where it gets confusing is that it’s implied that that incorrect belief is why the apostrophe is used as a possessive, rather than as a marker for the elision of the “e” in “es”. The overall impression is that grammatically it would be correct to just leave the apostrophe off and just add s to show possession. The reason I think he brought up the debunked “his” theory was to highlight where that leads to incorrect over correction by some writers where they replace the possessive with an expanded incorrect “his” version.

Ultimately though, the thing with English is that it’s a complete dumpster fire of a language, and literally every rule has nearly as many exceptions as it does cases where it applies. The language didn’t evolve so much as it metastasized in fits and starts. Nearly every feature of the language from its words, to spelling, to grammar was either awkwardly bolted on from some other language, or it was just invented from whole cloth by some random printer or author (often with highly dubious logic driving it). This is just the latest iteration of that process with people inventing distinctions between characters that didn’t really exist in the past. Single quote is already a bit of an aberration, eventually it will likely just die out in actual usage and we’ll be left with this abortive calcified single quote character in the UTF character set to mark where it used to be.

I think technically I made a mistake there, re-watching it, while the left “single quote” character is an inverted comma, the matching right “single quote” is just an apostrophe, but the apostrophe itself isn’t an inverted comma, it’s its own character. I got confused between the left and right single quote.