@metin a third of the world say they didn't like sunburn anyway, others say we can certainly do without because we have electricity, others start to plan their infinite party night. Musk says he's going to negotiate with the aliens, and go in an offensive costume, drunk and tries to mate with some, when that backfires, he says it's fine, he can rebuild a sun anyway, it's basic physics, we have all that figured out.
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Someone at my makerspace meetup was talking about the critically acclaimed "Three Body Problem", but the moment he started describing the synopsis where humans were making preparations centuries ahead of some existential threat, I just laughed. Humans today have demonstrated they are incapable of planning their own survival merely decades ahead, let alone centuries.
Coup dur pour Macron: Standard & Poor’s dégrade la note de la dette française de «AA» à «AA-», en gros de 18 à 15/20. Bercy, comme l'Elysée, pensaient pouvoir échapper au coup de semonce à une semaine des Européennes. Raté pour nos Mozart de la Finance...
Il a osé le dire: "Un ministre de l’intérieur doit aussi savoir agir à bas bruit, à l’abri des caméras, de façon plus maligne. La provoc’, ça ne marche pas à tous les coups", déclare le député LFI David Guiraud dans Médiapart sur Darmanin. Venant d'un Insoumis, dont la formation a élevé le "bordel" au rang de stratégie politique...
It's the start of a long weekend and I've found myself with a backlog of links, so it's time for another linkdump - the eighteenth in the (occasional) series. Here's the previous installments:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
“[t]he LAPD is not expected to like the existence of ‘Fck the LAPD’ merchandise. But their sole remedy is to not do things that result in people wanting to buy and wear ‘Fck the LAPD’ merchandise.” That may be difficult, he conceded, “[b]ut I promise you it would still be easier than trying to get a court to rule” that these shirts are infringing.