The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

My cat loves to lick plastic, but not actually bite it.

In America, this got lumped in as “Mod”, despite that word having a more specific meaning (sharp suits taking cues from Italian tailoring).

The law is harsh, but it is the law

Only 4 weeks? In much of Europe, 5-6 weeks is the norm.

It’s ingrained to avoid attraction to siblings we grow up alongside, though anecdotally there have been many cases of siblings who grew up apart discovering they were siblings after meeting as strangers and feeling mutual attraction, so the biological instinct may just have evolved around the most common case.

This vs. the Sony say-McDonalds-to-stop-the-ads smart-TV patent

Their business is being on show. Not having a black outfit in case of a relative dying or some period of national mourning would be a case of you-had-one-job.

Didn’t the KKK get their aesthetic sensibility from various medieval/early-modern religious paramilitary organisations like the Spanish Inquisition and the Holy Vehm?

Looks like someone emptied a bag of cats

And “fuck” has been used as slang for sexual intercourse since at least the 15th century. (Before that, it meant something like “to strike”.)

As the old SubGenius proverb goes, the difference between Heaven and Hell is which side of the pitchfork you’re on.

We must imagine Sisyphus Hitler happy up to his eyeballs in a lake of boiling sewage

The great cycle of life

Dude is under the impression that he made the new Citizen Kane or something.

Because you don’t use Typescript/JS perhaps?

All of the Americas did. After the conservative clampdown of 1848, German nonconformists of many stripes emigrated to seek a better life in the new world. This included liberals (some of whom ended up bolstering the abolitionist cause in the US and Latin America) as well as unorthodox religious groups (most famous among them Amish, Mennonites and Anabaptists).

Not-so-fun fact: there was a large, creepily culty German religious separatist community in Chile for a long time. When Nazi war criminals looked for their boltholes, some of them ended up there. This did not improve things.

That’s not even buying it; you’re renting it by the nanosecond.

Two tin cans and a length of string, but the cans are Heinz

Finally American superheroes will no longer need to go to Shanghai and work with a heroic PLA special agent to save the world.