Afganistan said no when the US wanted Bin Laden. Two and a half trillion dollars later the exact same people are back in charge and now they’re armed with modern American weapons instead of vintage Soviet ones. Everyone lost except the people who said no to the US.
All of them!
I can independently wiggle the toe between the pinky toe and the middle toe on my right foot.
There’s good content to be found on Reddit, but most of Reddit is not good content. It’s like wading through a chest-high river of sewage to smell a rose.
And Lemmy’s not trying to sell me something every 30 seconds.
Good: I have free speech.
Bad: You have free speech.
I think that sums it up.
The guy fitting the shoe has a big smile, and it’s not his customer service face.
Is it a council-permitted hole?
I don’t know what the US congress is any more, but in other countries it’s because they really really want to expel someone and the deportee’s home country might say “no thanks, they’re your problem”.
On World Book Day you want to remind us about a TV show? Which is not actually about books?
Why not tell us, if you know?
Followed by “but I don’t like to complain”.
I don’t know why anyone would prefer that.
What’s this, an attempt to kick an addiction?
I’ve never heard of an extension like that.
Memory training tools. Like the memory palace, the person-action-object method, acronyms and mnemonics.
Visualisations like using the abacus method to do fast and accurate arithmetic.
And human-executable techniques like the doomsday algorithm and George Marsaglia’s random number generator.
Obviously because everyone outside of your particular generation is a hivemind that shares a single un-nuanced thought on every topic.
A company I worked for announced that it had come to management attention that staff were socialising in the office, and that wasn’t allowed. To prevent it the doors would be locked until ten minutes before our official start time in the morning. I showed up at 7:30 the next morning for my shift and the whole team were milling around the front door because they couldn’t get in. Seems like they never delegated a manager to open up for us.
The policy was never rescinded, but they never tried enforcing it again either.
A patient escaped his police escort through a crawlspace above the showers. The whole building went on lockdown (with loudspeaker announcements about not interacting with any naked men you come across) before they eventually found him a mile away, still starkers.
Loved the Revenger trilogy.
Kinda liked the way it wrapped up by answering all the characters’ questions but left them with a whole series of new unanswered questions.
Recent, certainly. I don’t know if it’s newest.
So many questions.
What the fuck is that?!
Why is it called a ‘duck’?
What did it feel like? Miniature sandworm-looking mofo.