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Seeing how popular the name is, I suspect it's just a very generic newspaper name, like how a lot of English-language newspapers have Times in their names. For example, India has The Times of India and The Hindustan Times, despite the name coming from a former colonizer.

I want lots of things that aren't gonna happen.

Do you believe Ukrainians have no agency? Nobody but Russia is forcing them to fight.

Do you want to fight the Secret Service?

And denial of due process.

People who think they have a right to deface other people's property say the weirdest shit.

I was at the one in Seattle. The turnout estimate from the organizers was 25,000 people.

"The economy is bad, actually" is a wild take.

"Liberation Day" (🤮) was the "Mission Accomplished" moment for the shit whistle's second term.

The guy who surrounds himself with gold and gold plating isn't eating MacDonald's because he's cheap. MacDonald's in general isn't the most popular food brand in the world because it's the cheapest. It's popular because a shitload of people like the food, and Trump is one of them.

I doubt he can even count past ten, because that's when he runs out of fingers.

Vance doesn't have his own personal cult. That alone makes him preferable to Trump.

If we compare the United States to the Empire in Star Wars, we're somewhere past the end of Revenge of the Sith. Palpatine has declared himself the Emperor under the guise of needing to protect the Republic from an existential threat. He has already announced his intentions, taken personal control of key institutions, and started to strip power away from any institution or individual that he thinks can seriously oppose him.

He hasn't yet given up the facade of democratic legitimacy. He doesn't do that for 19 years in Star Wars. Hitler never abolished the Reichstag in 12 years of dictatorial rule. Russia still has a parliament and a nominally independent legal system 25 years after Putin first rose to power. The Roman Senate continued to exist for hundreds of years after Rome became a dictatorship, and even outlived the existence of the empire as a unified entity, and the Byzantine Senate (the legislative body of the Eastern Roman Empire) lasted until the 14th century.

I applaud the writers of that episode for doing that, but I've seen too many episodes/movies where people use alien technology with no indication they have a hard time with the interface, or where a Federation ship outright trades equipment with previously uncontacted aliens, and it just works. Hell, even Trip's reproductive system is so compatible with an alien's that she can get him pregnant! And don't even get me started on how often people just walk up and use a control panel to access sensitive systems without needing to present any kind of credentials.

Hyperbole is indistinguishable from lying in a conversation like this one.

Maybe make an exception for ads that consist mostly of artwork that customers are being sold? I'm talking about things like album covers and book covers that are often works of art in their own right.

I'm now imagining advertising being carried out the same way prostitution is.

"Hey sailor, want some good product recommendations?"

Graffiti, you say? So it was probably illegal.

I know the rule of law is in sad shape right now, but companies still avoid doing illegal shit right out in the open, and that's all that's needed to cut back dramatically on advertising.

That's called having just one distro.

I'm not gonna listen to Geordi because he lives in an alternate universe where everything is compatible with everything else.