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The downside of this is that it involves giving money to Bezos in the first place. If there are similar techniques that work with, say, Apple Books, Kobo or other stores not owned by a literal Bond villain, they’d be even better.

(Also, everyone else seems to use the EPub format, while Amazon have their own proprietary fork of an old PalmPilot ebook format. Meaning that you’re probably going to need to convert it to EPub for reading, which is one more step and could, in theory, go awry.)

And yet, shafts of light sometimes grace the corners of our rooms

Do they? Duolingo, meanwhile, teaches a Latin American dialect (possibly Mexican), with “ustedes” as the second-person plural. (IIRC, their Portuguese is also Brazilian, which is a greater leap.)

“Be the light that you wish to see in the world”, inscribed on a Molotov cocktail

That’s a permanent ban from Reddit

If you have enough wealth to be forever above consequences, you don’t ever need to endure the discomfort of growing

You’re right, it does not make sense.

If Toronto isn’t in Poland, you must acquit! The defence rests.

For that, America would have to believe in public goods.

Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states are buying F-35s, which is less than ideal.

I wonder what Putin would have to offer Trump to nerf, say, Estonia’s F-35s at an opportune moment.

You can’t trust an illustrator, as most people who can draw are commies. Which is why AI exists: so right-wing people can get art made without paying some dirty hippie who believes in equality and human rights.

LOL. Clive saw Trump win and ordered his people to lean into identifying as closely with that as they can get away with legally. It’s like scammy electric-car startups a few years ago choosing names that sounded as reminiscent of Tesla as possible (Nikola, Faraday Future) without actually infringing on any trademarks.

The problem of that the plausibly-deniable reading of his new party name, with its Biblical-apocalyptic imagery and emphatic pledge-of-allegiance patriotism, comes across as exceedingly American, to the point where most undecided Australians would take one look and say “yeah, nah”.

“web 3.0” was originally a lot of vague but innocuous ideas from the pre-silo era of independent web sites, such as microformats, the semantic web and generally more modular and interoperable web technologies. Then the open web died after Google and Facebook consolidated their grip as one-stop shops, and soon after that, crypto grifters took over the term for “let’s turn everything into a casino”

Do they mean “Firefox can get your location data to pass on to pages you give permission to, who we cannot guarantee won’t share it with advertisers” or “Firefox reserves the right to do a deal to monetise the tantalising firehose of location data coming from your device unless you specifically opt out”?

Imagine if the Chinese put them into reverse and blew everything away

Or Israel. (Turkey apparently replaced the original avionics of their US jets so that they could hypothetically target Israeli fighters.)

Kiki before bouba

Every country in Southeast Asia that gets waves of rowdy Western tourists has markets selling cheaply made T-shirts with these kinds of designs. They’re cheap (at least in western currency) and people end up buying them as souvenirs and as gag gifts for mates/coworkers.

I’ve seen one with the same colours/typeface/drawing style only it was about smoking weed or possibly banging two chicks at once. IIRC, it was purchased in Thailand a decade or two ago.

They may also want to put some feelers out towards Australia. The previous conservative government dragged the country into a deal for US submarines that seemed to be more politically motivated than practical, and that’s looking more in doubt every day.

When I was a teen, I thought that ska was short for “skatepunk”

Also, villains are often coded as minorities, whereas the heroes are basically the mainstream.