“into ska”

perovskite, surely?

Technically, “the Queen” would now refer to Camilla Parker-Bowles, King Charles’ wife.

The Scandinavians are good at long-term planning, and also aware that it will be far cheaper to defeat Russia in Ukraine than in, say, Finland or Poland in 5-10 years’ time.

Dude, is a firm, manly handshake gay?

Also, anyone applying for a driving licence should have to have spent a given number of hours cycling on public roads.

If a law was needed to give corporations an IP claim against attacks on them, they could find bipartisan support to pass it and the time to schedule it before other business such as formalising the status of the bald eagle or whatever.

Within a few months, Nintendo will have renamed him to Leroy or something, and put out a press release that it had been in the planning for a few years, to refresh the franchise for a new generation of players and so on, and obviously had nothing to do with Luigi having become a symbol of insurrection.

Does Marx’ concept of alienation measure up?

The Bryce of a new generation

Björgúlfur or something, surely.

Also, is Iceland falling so far behind in racial stereotyping that they’d bring in a German to do it for them?

Wait until you hear about the Chinese police fans who do up their cars to look like People’s Police vehicles and drive them around cities in Europe and North America with large Chinese expatriate populations, apparently just for fun.

You can have more yachts, jets and homes than you know what to do with with well less than a billion, to the point where acquiring new ones becomes a cognitive burden (“which yacht did I leave that on?”), so you hire people to manage your status symbols, and they become more of a token than a source of joy.

Beyond a certain point (perhaps in the tens of millions, perhaps in the low hundreds), it becomes impossible to spend your wealth on your own desires and joys, and the only uses of it are to jockey for status by wasting it on impractical things (“the other guy just bought a 1km-long yacht, I’d better buy a 1.5km one. Can’t let him outdo me”) or, by buying up labour and political decision-making, diverting society’s efforts from objectives thrashed out by its members (however imperfectly) to your own fantasy projects.

Which is why rats never built empires and conquered the world

* nobody in England loves you

If you have an older machine, the canisters are standard and there are third parties providing cheaper alternatives in many countries.

All the surplus American people in Japan are employed being the “American guy” in the office who is kept on to tell the boss his idea is stupid because he’s just a clueless gaijin who doesn’t know that you don’t do that.

Which language has a word/abbreviation that can translate as either chicken or something to do with data storage?

Enterprising Texan pervert invents a dual-function gun-dildo that is constitutionally exempt from sex toy laws.

Corporate wellness has a new look for the Trump era