She’s only two years older than me? The fuck, I thought she was a very rough 30 something.

The Norks have quite literally done data breaches and major hacks via this exact method in the past. They basically have nothing to lose on the international level so they do this and then trade it to countries like China or Russia for whatever it is they want. If they didn’t have a documented history of doing shit like that nobody would assume espionage.

If they didn’t have a known tendency towards weird espionage shit going back to the 50 and 60s nobody would care, but they do have a known tendency towards doing weird espionage shit.

It kinda is, its practically a requirement for a lot of corporate espionage and a lot of spies have entire lives alongside their spy duties. Also fun joke I’ve heard about Vladivostok during the Cold war, “There were surprisingly only a handful of people in that city, American spies, Soviet counter intelligence, smugglers, cargo movers, and baristas who ignored the whole mess” heard that from an ex-CIA guy who was doing a talk at a spy exhibit back when I was a kid.

Eh Chomsky has always been a bastard IMO. Fun fact I first came across his name when doing research on the Cambodian genocide in middle school (I was that kid who chose the worst things to write about in open ended essays) wherein he sided with the fucking Khmer Rouge. Seriously the one fucking time siding with the Soviet Union is the correct choice and you align yourself with the fucking Khmer Rouge.

In the defense of Heinlein all his books are weird regardless of the politics within, looking at you Stranger from a strange land. Seriously that whole book goes from Heinleins vaguely horny thought experiment to psychic sex cult real fucken quick, also why do I get the feeling Heinlein and Roddenberry shared a surprising number of friends.

Technically the US has been in a near constant state of war since it’s founding if you include the various Indian wars, and I’m not talking about just the big ones like with Little Bighorn I’m including the small guerilla wars that basically devolved into banditry. I think there were a handful of small gaps but usually those only lasted a year or two.

Because a solid percentage of the country quite literally wants women barefoot and pregnant, with another solid percentage following along with them because something something taxes something something jerbs.

Need? No. Want? Yes.

Pour one out for John C Woods, don’t know if he was shitty in general but making Nazis suffer is always acceptable. Will probably listen to the behind the bastards video later I guess.

Personally I’d rather see her choke to death via being hanged. Would be a rather fitting end for one of these wannabe klansmen, also it’s how the Nazis were executed though they were given the mercy of having their necks snapped. I do not believe in mercy for pissants like these.

Honestly a military research division probably wouldnt be a bad idea, doesn’t even need to be weaponry. Could probably get a could mil to try to figure out how to make shelf stable eggs for MREs. Worst case scenario you piss off a bunch of soldiers for bringing back the vomlet.

Maybe. Don’t actually know, the ones I’m in contact with have pretty universally chilled out but who knows about the other ones. Though even with that I’m not stupid enough to assume I wouldn’t fall back into my ancestors ways of banditry and murder, just requires the right targets and enough leeway to get away with it. Would be pretty lucrative for example to raid those shitty little orthodox Mormon communities out in the desert especially with a crew.

But like I said, as of right now all the ones I know were killers are dead or so old that they won’t be pulling that shit again.

Yeah and several of them were my kin and were murderers. My kin were the folks who you went to when you needed someone dealt with, hell I wouldn’t be surprised if my great great aunt killed someone as a favor to the Hells Angels back in the day. Let alone some of the kin I’m less close, I know at least one of them ended up in prison for murder back in the day due to some such Berdoo nonsense. Funny enough a kinsman who I only met once was also in Prison at some point and was on the bad side of the law into old age threatened to kill my sperm donor, glad he didn’t kill stealing is a step to far and that sombitch belongs either to my grandmother or myself.

I unironically think this pissbag deserves to be hit by a truck and forced to communicate entirely through TTS for the rest of her miserable life. Now some of you may say that I’m cruel and yes that’s the point, I ain’t going to calm my bloodlust for some irrelevant BS like civility.

IDK not enough encrusted makeup that looks like the film that forms when you run water from an old house and then let it dry.

As I understand it it was less so a matter of direct spelling changes and was moreso a matter of “correcting” pronunciation of school children. While it’s generally failed every generation or two it seems the English face some version, the most notable being the shifter of how to pronounce solder so as to pronounce the L. Though that one in particular may just be people not knowing how to say it as well.

Also as an aside Webster simply documented the most common spellings of words at the time, while he definitely had an impact on a lot of the spelling most of it was pretty well spread by the point he published his dictionary. Printing presses charged by the letter so superfluous letters generally got abandoned namely the U in a lot of words since it generally doesn’t effect inflection in American English, I’ve also seen variants wherein silent Ls and Ks were dropped though most of those ones didn’t stick probably because nife just kinda looks wrong.

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this effectively toothless? Like executive orders only effect things directly under federal and more specifically executive purview meaning even a city government could pass a regulation on AI in their area and it’d have more legal weight than an executive order. Or are they abusing unrelated powers to declare that no one can regulate AI?

Like I’m pretty sure the supremacy clause doesn’t apply to executive orders.

If memory serves they’ve had at least one government backed effort to relatinize certain words in their dialect. I do respect any country that does that on an intentional and purposeful level, it’s why I don’t respect the French and why I have gripes with the Icelandic.

Plenty of archaic uses are still common depending on dialect. One of the more annoying aspects of Cambridge and OED is the assignment of archaic to older or lesser used forms that may still be common in parlance bet fell out of favor in most other ways.

Also I refuse to listen to what the English have to say on the English because they keep intentionally fucking with their dialect.

I feel like the whiskey rebellion is a bit of an unfair one to include. Mostly because rebelling over taxes was rather common historically, and now that I’m considering its a tad weird we haven’t had more tax rebellions here in the US.