I get why Russia would like to do away with religion by and large, even if I no longer agree with those reasons
That was something the Communists tried to do. Putin has promoted the regressive, misogynistic, right-wing authoritarian Russian Orthodox Church.
I think it doesn’t help to make up shit about him
The words reported were his.
One possible reaction to collective trauma is to become more like the aggressor.
Trump uses AI as excuse to buy more fossil fuel.
Yeah, the famously lavish North Korean standard of living. “Gonna feast on rat.”
*Yakity Sax.
FOAD in nice big letters.
A specially modified Swasticar would suffice.
The BBC isn’t all that wonderful. They used to exercise a great degree of independence, but since Thatcher, their autonomy has steadily been eroded, and their senior management consists of toadies, mainly aligned with the previous Conservative government. They’re afraid to offend and won’t address some issues (strong UK citizen support for Palestine, where Farage gets his money, links between MAGA and current Tory leadership, etc). They Aalways sanewash Trump. The Tories, during the 14 years in power, did everything they could to weaken the BBC and make it more suitable for privatisation.
When has the American government consisted of anyone but conservatives or centrists?
One of my early jobs as a software developer was in a firm run by some middle-aged Mormons. At the time I had hair down to my ass and my work uniform consisted of black T-shirt, black jeans and black lizard-skin cowboy boots. To say there were cultural differences would be understating it. Also, they had high expectations regarding performance. But they were, in my experience, completely ethical and treated me fairly. I’m not in any way religious but I despise liars and game-players, so I thrived in that firm, and never mind their funny underwear. They did encourage me to buy a suit, which I wore for important customer meetings, but I’d still wear the roach-stompers.
Later, our division of the firm was acquired, and it ended up being managed by a bunch of sleazebag hypertensive corporate weasels. They looted our pension fund. The Saints were forced into early retirement. I was working abroad when all that happened, but when I came back to the US, I quickly left.
The Affluenza defense.
at least not premeditated
Since when is premeditation a condition for a rape conviction?
What makes you think people want it at all?
A compulsive liar lied again? Shock, horror.
But never, never try hedgehog uni.
Similarly, “dinosaur” is pronounced dino-sour, and not as dino-saw.
In ancient Greek, as best we can tell. The “i” is more like “ee” as well. In English, it’s “die-no-sore” unless you’re non-rhotic, and if you are, then piss off, you posh ponce.
In English, it’s a matter of honor to mangle foreign loan words, unless you’re the kind of twit who pedantically pronounces foreign words as though you’re not speaking English, but the language of origin. That’s most common with French loanwords, since French was once considered higher-prestige than English. But I’ve even heard people attempting to pronounce Arabic words like that, despite having no idea of Arabic phonology or case inflection, with ridiculous results.
There are no Greek C’s. With Greek loanwords into Latin, “k” was mapped to Latin “c.” Then the pronunciation of “c” diverged, with the Catholic Church adopting the Italianate pronunciation of the letter “c” in the Middle Ages, which was not the preferred pronunciation in classical Latin. We know how Latin was pronounced because the Romans actually wrote guidebooks for newly-assimilated Romans on how to speak proper Latin. That’s also how we know that “r” was trilled or rolled-- the guidance was “make it sound like a dog growling.”
And the same can be said for all spy agencies.