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Nominally "Christian" because they like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

I used to dream of a utopia like Star Trek.

Be careful what you wish for.

I am confused both about why immigrants would want to go to the UK in the first place instead of staying in France, and about why French police wouldn't be perfectly happy to see them go and let the UK deal with them.

I hope Europe is scrambling to launch new satellites to pick up the slack. (For their own sake, not the US', of course.)

I was so confused until I got to the edit.

It's not even a very big house. It looks maybe 40' or so wide and somewhat less deep, so I'm guessing it's maybe 3000 sq. ft. total. I would almost hesitate to even bestow the status of 'McMansion' on it.

Nice try, Padmé.

I'm sure they are. They have to be, unless they're steel inside instead (which is unlikely), because you can't make real stacked-stone masonry that skinny and have it be stable.

And that's my problem with it: it's fraudulent. Not even in an intentional "flouting the rules to make a modernist point" kind of way either; just out of ignorant and lazy design.

It depends on the transit service, and how much their IT people suck. I'm pretty sure there have been multiple attempts to make standardized APIs for this sort of thing, but you shouldn't necessarily expect them to be widely used except maybe in Europe.

Do a web search for "[transit service name] API" and start from there.

Edit: My local transit service apparently publishes a GTFS feed, which may be more widespread than I assumed, but I'm honestly kinda surprised they didn't try to roll their own or something stupid like that.

Grass does make flowers; they're just typically really small (unless it's something we've bred to be big, like corn or wheat).

For example, bermudagrass in flower:

Amazing how we went from every fetus is a valuable, beautiful person, to fuck the kids, let them starve.

That's not a transition; those ideas are held simultaneously. Moreover, they are not in conflict with each other, once you understand what MAGAs goals actually are.

Stop thinking that the argument you made somehow exposes their stupidity or hypocrisy or whatever, because it doesn't. All it does is reveal that you're still in denial and being too charitable about their motivations.

If you create more hungry children now, it’s something that you cannot fix in the future. The children you harm with this will live diminished lives,

Consider that "live diminished lives" implies "become more susceptible to MAGA indoctrination" and you'll realize that they know exactly what they're doing and they're doing it on purpose.

No, this is what happens when you (a) have a "allowed until proven unsafe" regulatory framework instead of a "prohibited until proven safe" one, and perhaps more importantly (b) abjectly refuse to consider any weed control method other than ones that can be accomplished by indiscriminate use of a sprayer.

I would, but that doesn’t work for stuff coming up through cracks in concrete, or through chain link fence.

For that sort of stuff, I recommend vinegar or propane. lMO the only reason to use a fancy commercial herbicide is when you need it to be selective, e.g. when you're trying to get rid of broad leaf lawn weeds without killing the grass, too. (Edit: I'm not endorsing that as a good reason, BTW, as I'm more of a !nolawns@slrpnk.net sympathizer myself. I'm just saying that it's the only one that's even plausible.)

That's because Ace Hardware is franchised. It's essentially a bunch of small businesses that use the same branding.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. You have to lobby to change zoning laws to make it happen.

If you think that's bad, imagine an equivalently-accessorized Game Gear.

All mammals are fish.

I hate columns like that. Everything else is kind of a (bad) choice, but those columns are just objectively wrong because masonry doesn't work like that.