I’m disappointed that you can’t narrow it down more.
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What do you expect from a train that stops at a place called “student city”?
It provides a convenient connection between various installations of the technical university, like the hospital, the nuclear reactor, and the research brewery.
14·3 days agoThat took me way too long.
It looks like an emperor’s new clothes scenario to me. People agree with each other that the US should manufacture more because they have picked up that that’s the respectable answer; not because they see any actual sense in it.
Or maybe it’s some sort of nostalgia. I guess people used to say that more people should work in agriculture, because that was somehow their idea of a proper, wholesome country.
People who play medievalist games somehow never pretend to be serfs or farm-hands.
There are a few areas where you would want manufacturing in the country. Defense, some medical supplies, … Just in case things go bad, you’d want some capacity, some expertise in the country to be less dependent. You’d spend extra resources just in case, just to be safe. But it’s never a rational end in itself.
Honk if you can hear this image.
I read that in an Austrian accent. In my head, of course.
I was thinking of that guy when I added the “rarely”.
Still, how crazy was he? He fell in “love” with an actress after seeing her in a movie. Then he took a cue from that movie and tried to assassinate the US president Ronald Reagan to impress her. Crazy. Delusional. But how crazy is that really in comparison to, say, what the current US president believes and does?
Bullshit. Mentally ill people rarely commit assassinations or mass shootings. That sort of thing requires planning and foresight; a degree of functioning in society that mentally ill people are rarely able to perform by definition.
The perpetrators might be “crazy” in a colloquial sense, but so is the typical right-wing celebrity.
I should add that the FFmpeg team is quite proud of the fact that they write in C and Assembly for peak performance. They mention it a lot, and so they did here.
It’s a genuine xeet(?).
- Get humped by a dog.
- Whine like a bitch.
There is a 1987 paper tracking the joke through history: A Romanian Political Joke in 12th Century Iranian Sources by Mahmoud Omidsalar (Hat tip)
This is the 12th century version (Hat tip):
A fox was running, grieving for his life.
Another fox saw him in such a state
And asked: “Please tell me, brother, what is wrong?”
He said: “The king is hunting donkeys here!”
“But you are not a donkey - so why fear?”
He answered: "That is right; but, oh!, these men;
They do not know and they cannot discern.
They think that fox and donkey are the same!"
https://archive.org/details/AnvarisDivanAPocketBookforAkbar/page/n119/mode/2up
Allegedly, expressions along the lines of “to prove you are not a camel” are common in Poland and Russia for tedious bureaucratic demands.
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He was president of the Screen Actor’s Guild; a solid union man. /s
The point is, functioning unions are necessary to keep the economy working in the public interest. But not all unions are interested in doing that.
Your local tax system probably works the same.
This may be a language issue. “Bill” in this context means the total amount you have to pay. EG A restaurant bill is what you get from a waiter when you want to pay.
That tells me that you didn’t listen to enough metal.