COVID showed us that when we close the borders it’s already too late.

American avian flu will be global long before enough other governments take it seriously enough to react, because the people who should have raised the alarm (in the USA) will be too busy looking for a job, in jail, dead, or ignoring it and drinking raw milk.

Who the fuck would be in the favour of fascists…?

Franco did not sire the entire Spanish population.

No, but he did kill, or drive into exile or poverty and political irrelevance anyone who didn’t share his views.

Most of the surviving population, especially the ones with economic and political power, were fascists. Their children were fascists. Their grandchildren were fascists wearing progressive masks. And their great grandchildren are fascists who’ve taken off their masks.

When the bastard said he left everything “tied up and well tied up” he wasn’t kidding.

Germany was forced to clean up house, though.

Franco died in bed (in extreme agony, apparently; the only good thing the bastard ever did; but still), naming his successor, whose son is the current unelected parasite on the throne. The dictator’s children and grandchildren are public figures, celebrated and followed by embarrassingly large portions of the population.

The murderers and torturers who worked for him kept their jobs, were forgiven all their crimes, and their children and grandchildren succeed them (old money and contacts in high places go a long way towards winning elections).

The supposed “transition” merely put some new wallpaper on top of the existing structures, with a watered down constitution voted under military threats: vote for it, or else, even going as far as staging a coup attempt so that Franco’s successor could “save the day”, become a hero, and water the new supposed democracy down even further.

Do not compare Spain to Germany. It’s extremely insulting to Germany.

Most other states tend not to celebrate their raping, murdering, and pillaging as a national holiday, though.

And there’s also the fact that most Spanish politicians are descendants of those that served under the coupist dictator Franco (who nominated the current parasite in chief’s father as his successor), and share the same political views, as does a nauseatingly high portion of the population.

Move on

No.

We’re talking about Donald Trump here… you could replace him with an animatronic muppet and the only thing people would notice is that he looked healthier and didn’t smell as bad.

This Terry Pratchett (GNU) quote pretty much explains it (he uses the term “(Discworld) elves”, but given that Lords and Ladies is clearly based on A Midsummer’s Night Dream the quote equally applies to any kind of fae, and not necessarily, for instance, to Tolkien or DnD elves):

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

Looks like some kind of fae. Run.

Hard drive space might be bottlenecked by the holographic principle.

You have a Schrödinger’s cat. It needs to be observed in order to collapse its wave function, or it can’t know what state it’s in.

You should probably get another one so they can observe each other.

Because they’re not pro life, they’re pro suffering.

And they want to control others (against their will if possible), so ending someone’s life and forcing someone to gestate a baby or die in the process fall in exactly the same bag.

Look, we’re talking people who call ninety-nine “four twenty ten nine”; you can’t expect them to name things properly.

Maru’s channel is great to have at hand when you’re having a bad day.

Maru is mostly fluff, though.

He’s been shown wet in some videos and he’s really quite slim under the hair.

(You can also see in this gif that he easily fits into the wrappers until he’s going slow enough for friction to catch.)

recently released western cartoon that wasn’t Disney or aimed at the under 6 crowd

Invincible, Arcane, Hazbin Hotel, The Legend of Vox Machina, Solar Opposites, The Boys presents: Diabolical, Krapopolis, Castlevania, Blue Eye Samurai, Star Trek: Lower Decks… and I’m sure I’m missing plenty (I intentionally left out anything by DC since you’d probably put them in the same bag as Marvel).

Frankly, adult western cartoons are probably more popular (and much higher quality) now than they’ve ever been before…

Crossing the channel I can understand. Crossing the channel to the UK, however, seems like an exercise in masochism.

That’s a good rule of thumb… but it’s probably not enough; no reasonable definition would call Jupiter a star, or even a brown dwarf, or the Solar System a binary system, yet the Sol - Jupiter barycentre is outside the sun… (the whole system’s barycentre is sometimes inside the sun, but that’s due to Saturn’s, Uranus’, and Neptune’s pulls cancelling Jupiter’s).

I’d call the barycentre thing a necessary but not sufficient requirement; a proper definition of double planet should probably also take into account other factors like the relative mass and density of the bodies, and their minimum and maximum distance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

Source: https://wondermark.com/c/1062/

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Better resolution:

If it’s alive and plucked, it’s just regular sex.
— Plato