Also, Pope believed to be Catholic

It’s a start, I guess

“anti-Zionism” is a slippery term that doesn’t nearly stop at anti-genocide or even anti-ethnic-supremacy but can go all the way to “Jews out of the Middle East”. Even if one doesn’t take that maximalist stance, one is stuck on a tough hill to defend.

The Greens toxified themselves with the Zionism motion, quite possibly irredeemably. There is now a cordon sanitaire around them, with no mainstream party willing to touch them with a 10-foot pole, in the UK or in Europe, and they’re in the same political cesspool as Corbyn and Galloway, while still insisting that they’re something different.

Compulsory voting doesn’t mean you have to vote: it means you have to show up or have a good excuse to not have done so. Once you show up, you can lodge a blank ballot, write “FUCK THEM ALL” on the paper, draw a willy on it or whatever. Informal votes, as they’re known, are counted and, while they don’t decide who wins, they’re a gauge of dissatisfaction (a certain baseline amount is expected, though variation from that can indicate changes in public sentiment).

From an individual voter’s point of view it may seem pointless and annoying, though looking at it across the system, compulsory voting changed the dynamics of elections by eliminating the advantage of playing to one’s base to boost turnout. The result, as seen in jurisdictions such as Australia, is less extremism as parties tend to aim to appeal more to the broad public.

L. Ron Hubbard would disagree.

Step 1. Feed coin into slot machine

Step 2. Pull lever

Step 3. Congratulations! You are now an open-source developer

That makes sense. Once nuclear is built, using it is a no-brainer: you’ve already paid for it, so saying no to energy produced at the costs of a few truckloads of fuel a year is purity politics at its most asinine. Building new nuclear plants, with their high capital costs and long lead times, is another question altogether.

Won’t someone think of the Nazis’ rights to peacefully advocate racial extermination being so brutally violated…

Slava ukraini!

Everyone gets off at the slutstation

Is 1900 a record?

Weird looking calico cat

If the husband died first, his widow could end up “finding” “his” mislaid manuscripts for a decade or more…

If AfD take power, someone will have to build a meta-ark to rescue the ark.

To this day, Russian espionage operations have a free hand in Austria, with Vienna teeming with FSB/GRU agents and electronic intelligence facilities and the Austrian government being able to do little to impede them due to this treaty. Also, Austrian companies like Svarovski Optik supply the Russian armed forces to this day.

Can it emulate SIXAXIS functionality with the gyroscopes in other controllers such as the Steam Deck?

Unless they’re using Chinese microprocessors like LoongArm, their CPUs were partly designed in Israel, and may well have backdoors for Mossad to use in the direst emergencies. Running a sovereign Linux (or OpenBSD or 9front or TempleOS for that matter) doesn’t mitigate these.

If they are running Chinese CPUs, replace “Mossad” with “PLA”.

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If the ORG is designated a terrorist group like Palestine Action, how much of a grace period will existing members have before they get disappeared to Azkaban-in-the-Falklands or wherever all those designated terrorists will need to be contained? Is not renewing your membership enough, does one have to renounce it within 24 hours of the designation, or will the ruling be retroactive, condemning anyone who was a member years ago even if they let it lapse?