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  • And vajazzling applied to the buttocks could be called bumbling.

  • What was he doing in a NATO country in the first place? Sounds like the authorities were asleep at the wheel.

  • We need to talk about the straights and their choice of footwear

  • Is 6% a cited estimate of the number of psychopaths in a population?

  • There are almost certainly gacha capsule machines in Japan containing plastic figurines of sushi-bug characters that look like this guy, along with tuna and tamagoyaki variants. Maybe also an inari hermit crab or something.

  • The Nationals can now go back to their roots as a farmers’ party. Though they seem more interested in railing against solar/wind power and promoting coal (“nuclear power, to be ready in a generation’s time”). Maybe they’re angling for Clive Palmer to buy them out?

  • The Liberals were originally a broad church, with its most salient feature being that its members were more likely to own property. The more socially moderate members (sometimes referred to as “wets”, a term borrowed from the British Tories) started dwindling in the long Howard era (1997-2007 and 2011-2022 or so) when the party pivoted to Murdochian culture-war conservatism, and eventually lost almost all their historic seats in wealthy suburbs, while outer-suburban party branches were taken over by religious groups (pentecostals and Mormons, IIRC)

  • IIRC, some of the Microsoft ones were designed by Susan Kare (who previously did the Macintosh icons).

  • It’s a subliminal reminder to wash your hands

  • Last year, you could not hear boos when Israel entered, but you heard some between the time the Greek flag (which is the same colours) was seen and Greece was announced, which seemed telling.

  • The Lemmy user base tilts alternative (queer, neurodiverse, subculturally niche, politically leftist beyond the mainstream centre-left and such), whereas sports fandom is coded aggressively mainstream, as part of what it means to pass the normality tests, so there’d be fewer sports fans than in a randomly chosen population. Maybe if there’s an influx of normies here, the sports forums will fill out.

  • They’d be a Taiwanese electronics firm founded between the 70s and 90s. I’m fairly sure I had one of their SVGA multisync monitors back then.

  • May your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth with the force of a thousand caramels

  • Not everybody is cut out to drive (i.e. to operate dangerous heavy machinery in a fast-changing environment with others depending on you handling the situation correctly). The problem is when we structure our societies requiring everyone to do so to participate.

  • “The Left” here being anyone who’s not an arsehole.

  • The voice of someone known for his sound life choices