Yes, but what about Italian Bobby?

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I don’t know why Techdirt is so concerned about the so-called “COVID denialism.” They call it themselves when they suggest it might be mocking. Judge Walker was an Obama appointee and has been remarkably sane in his judicial career, including on COVID. He is clearly trolling the state’s attorney at several points throughout, letting their previous positions hoist them on their own petard. I particularly like the point he raises about how Florida handles parental rights:

THE COURT: Well, we’ve empowered parents to control what books our kids read in school. Why is it far-fetched to empower parents and think they know best for their individual children about who they are engaging with socially on social media platforms?

MR. GOLEMBIEWSKI: Well, parents certainly have a role, but the key is these controls. And the controls have proven ineffective. So these platforms —

THE COURT: You are taking the control away. Because if I’ve got a 13-year-old child and I want him to — does my kid get to sign up if I want him to be able to sign up and have an account in a social media platform on Facebook?

MR. GOLEMBIEWSKI: You can register for an account and a kid can use your account, and you can monitor them. THE COURT: I don’t want to monitor them. Just like I want them to read the book about the two penguins raising an egg together. The two male penguins raising an egg together. I don’t want to sign up on my account. I want to have my own Facebook account. I want my kid — you’ve taken that choice away from me; right?

MR. GOLEMBIEWSKI: I just think it’s an irrelevant issue because their — I mean, the degree of control that parents have is irrelevant. What’s —

THE COURT: The point, Counsel — and I don’t think it’s particularly far-fetched — is the State of Florida picks and chooses when they want the parents to be making the decision. And when it suits their purposes, they do; and when it doesn’t, they don’t.

But I’ve got it. Fair enough.

It’s not that there’s no argument against letting children on social media. There are strong arguments, but the science is not mature maybe never will be, and the experiences parents permit their children to have can vary wildly. The point is that under the US system, you can’t make laws that limit free speech and private family behavior based on “this is probably not a great idea,” and if you can, then social conservatives will not always like where that leads.

!fountainpens@lemmy.world

Pretty slow, but there are some of us here.

Awwww Death is adorbs!

cup of tea

There’s your problem right there, bucko. In the words of the last great American… pigeon sweat.

Yes, but that is less fun for my dad-joke purposes.

So the one in the old fable was even more of a dick than we’d been led to believe. Got it.

Can they do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke?!?!?

It clearly pissed him off enough that he refuses to finish the next book out of sheer principle.

Perhaps the wings are articulated ribs?

Absolutely! I also like to point people to the father and son who worked on reconstructing the Original Pronunciation.

The Elizabethan/Jacobean drama scene could be crazy (though there were also command performances in noble or royal households which would have filed down a lot of the rough edges), and it was both popular and rowdy. Theatres were always getting shut down for censorship or indecency, tons of drama (LOL) with poaching ideas and even talent, and there was even Renaissance media piracy! I think there are at least four mostly complete extant versions of Hamlet, all a little different, and at least two just simple pirate printings from printing houses sending dudes out with their memory and maybe a pencil and notebook. Then, many of the plays would have been collaborations. Much of Shakespeare’s early and late output is thought to have involved co-writers.

Then, that’s to say nothing of the theatre people getting salty about everything, not least this rube coming down from Warwickshire, acting like he knows how to write, and upending the audience expectations.

This will be part of a series of reminders over coming months that Shakespeare will have truly coined a smaller number of phrases than he’s given credit for, and very few words at all. Dictionaries source by earliest known written use, and Willy Shakes was a unicorn for that purpose.

He was an upjumped middle-class prodigy from barely a century after the introduction of the printing press, with a mediocre education by the standards of the day, writing prolifically for both popular and elevated audiences. He was also famous enough in his own day to have had his collected works published, and the fact that his reputation exploded after his death ensured those volumes survived. He would have been writing slightly differently from many of his contemporaries, and a much higher amount of what he wrote has survived.

I have it on good authority that you’re not old.

You’re welcome.

The UAE in general is an interesting experience. I’ve only been once, but my wife has been several times for work.

The face they want to present has a kind of a Pan-European middlebrow banality (i.e. you want to impress many people who may or may not be all that thoughtful and who definitely speak many different languages and have different cultural touchstones… I am thinking of stuff like the old BASF “nothingburger” ads or the "anthems for Eurovision or Champions League football), combined with an American-like sense of recklessly cheerful enthusiasm for development and economic growth, but wrapped in a cloak of religiosity and always with a barely concealed underpinning of oligarchic authoritarianism.

To be perfectly honest, it felt a lot like what I expect the evil, but less mustache-twirlingly evil, hope America will be. Still open for business, and even superficially welcoming, but with true wealth only going to those selected by the entrenched power structure, with all others allowed to serve at their pleasure and under a bedrock expectation of not disturbing their preferred social order.

I’ve had chocolate made with camel milk. It was good, though being positioned as a premium thing it probably would have been just as good with cow milk.

Love After Lockup is full of extremely healthy relationships.

Yes, yes, I know, and in fact one does lost interest after a while. Still, some reality trash can be interesting in the first season or two when they’re gathering the initial crop of free-range crazy instead of raising their own herd. Frankly, I’m surprised we haven’t seen a proper “SovCit” reality franchise.

So, umm, yeah… So guys, y’all all seem really nice, but um, well, the thing is… 🤣🤣🤣