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Who Sun-Tans the Sun-Tanner?

I would argue that the one that exploded over DC last month had almost certainly ceased to be a plane by the time it hit the ground.

Well the cynic in me says "to undermine the public trust in the safety of air travel so people become more isolated, unwilling to organize, and dependent on either corporate-controlled media or gasoline-powered cars to maintain contact with any part of the world outside a 20-mile radius," and the nutjob conspiracy theorist in me sure thinks he could make a convincing corkboard out of it if you gave him enough thumb tacks and red string, but once again I could be making the mistake of assuming they're going into this with a plan and not just flailing wildly to make it look like they're addressing a problem they have no idea how to solve.

This better be the fucking street fight from Anchorman with a hand grenade and a circular saw and a dude with a claymore.

Shiiiiiit. I was looking out my window around quarter to nine and saw a weird bright orange spot off towards DC. Didn't think anything of it in the moment; I'm right under a flight path, not too far from a military airfield, all sorts of weird lights flying over all the time. But looking at that footage that's exactly what it looked like. Christ.

Yeah, it's called taking out the competition. If you wanna win a race you gotta know where to throw the banana peels.

Less obligatory but still timely

Counteroffer: We'll take Nunavut in exchange for Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

One, you'll have us nearly surrounded; two, they're far enough away that you don't have to risk any of the pre-existing populace actually coming into your country, and three, you get a whole stretch of oceanfront property, and we don't have to let them muck up our electoral college anymore. And all we want in exchange is a nigh-uninhabitable stretch of ice and bragging rights that we're indisputably bigger than China, which is for some reason the only thing the incoming administration cares about anyway. If that's not enough we're willing to throw in a couple of the Virgin Islands.

I understand there is a species of blind fish living in a cave nearly a mile beneath the Yucatán peninsula that scientists believe might not be racist, but research is still ongoing.

Lisan al Haribo!

Yeah unfortunately I'm not terribly familiar with this client, I just wandered in here from - and I hate to say it, given the circumstances - the second page of hot, so I'm not sure what all options you have available, but if the button's there that might fix it.

Now, it does look like your instance is running version 0.19.5 whereas mine's on 0.19.6, so it'll probably be fixed once an update goes through, whenever that may be.

I experienced this on my instance on just regular desktop browsing for a while, so I don't think it's necessarily an issue with your client; it did eventually just go away on its own (somewhere around the time the instance backend updated, I'm sure), but I also found that switching on "show hidden posts" fixed it as well, and since I don't really have any hidden posts it didn't make much difference. Downside was I had to do that manually every time, but it did at least get me to the second page.

It does seem pretty safe to assume that the ballot was signed sometime between the time it was printed and the date it was postmarked which, given the fast-paced and tumultuous nature of American politics, surely cannot be that wide of a window. And if the purpose is to somehow catch people submitting ballots after the cutoff date, surely one would expect a wouldbe election fraudster to lose no sleep in also falsifying an earlier date, making one wonder why this information is all that pertinent to begin with.

Now, a more cynical person might assume that this was just another one of those little traps specifically engineered to attract common mistakes (knowing full well that some of us are still putting the year down as "2015" because goddammit, what the hell time is it?) which can then be selectively enforced depending on whether or not you want to invalidate a large swath of votes. But I mean, surely our very trustworthy elected officials would never do such a thing...

I hear he eats televisions for breakfast. Drives around in an old pickup truck at 70 miles an hour knocking radio antennas off the side of the road with a baseball bat. You know, probably.

Also, the usual litany of opposes net neutrality, loves the bold new direction Twitter has been taking, hates any form of disinformation oversight and also apparently hates fiberoptic cables(?!) and thinks it would be great if social media stopped censoring his people and started censoring those other people already. Those ones were real.

Yeah, I mean, not really, if I'm honest.

Both are still showing up full price for me, if that helps.

...Think it's too late to get a refund?

something-something Núma Númenor

Weirdly, season 4 of both Fringe and Eureka have a portion of the main cast shunted into an altered timeline and having to reconcile their original memories with their "new" histories, to varying degrees of success.

Travelers kinda inverts the premise in its second season, where a bunch of time travellers sent back to fix the past start seeing their superior foreknowledge slowly rendered useless by the fact that their mission is actually succeeding in changing the future.