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Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life
As silly as it looks, there's a good reason for this. You can't just have a blank page because the user is going to wonder if something is missing. You have to say that the page is blank on purpose, at which point it's no longer blank. They could say "The only thing on this page is this sentence explaining that there is nothing else on this page" but that seems somehow more ridiculous.
The Democrats need to stop waiting for the perfect pitch and swing the fucking bat.
The water charge did elicit an eyebrow raise from me, but tourism in the Greek isles is a bit different. I haven't been to Corfu, but I know some smaller islands don't have potable water service. Some places will provide filtered pitchers of water, and others will provide bottles on request. Maybe they were offered tap water and insisted on bottled water, resulting in the charge? I know Athenians are particularly proud of their tap water. Maybe they insulted their hosts by suggesting their water wasn't good enough? I'm just spitballing, but I agree that being charged for water is not something I would expect from an all-inclusive hotel.
When it comes to food and hospitality, I would not be surprised at all to just be served a variety of food without explanation, just like Yiayia used to make. If you ask what the food is, they'll happily describe it as long as you aren't like "ew, what's that?" Greeks are big on hospitality, and rejecting or criticizing the food they prepared for you would be deeply offensive.
I mean, anyone would be offended, but Gordon Ramsay would just tell you to fuck off and forget you ever existed. A Greek host would furrow their brow, walk away, and curse the eyes of your grandchildren. Their tombstone would say "Loving wife and matriarch, who made the best rice despite what that one μαλάκας said."
So the unlabeled buffet isn't that weird, and all of the food she described sounds like typical Greek fare. I also know in my family, there are a lot of superstitions about what time you eat certain types of food. Like eating heavy proteins or carbs like bacon and eggs for breakfast will make your chest hair gray or some shit.
The second room key is another weird one. Sounds to me like the hotel is just being cheap, but are they actual keys? Like if it's a fancy three dimensional Mondoshawan style key, maybe they don't have spare copies? If they are key cards, there's zero reason to not simply make two. Again, this makes me think the hosts were being deliberately inhospitable, which supports my μαλάκας theory, but that's still a reasonable complaint.
It just feels like she didn't do her research and had a miserable time, and the legitimate complaints are overshadowed by whinging about things that were her poor choices.
I think it's just the font, but XKCD would have recreated the table and added a subtle, obscure reference to acknowledge in the alt text.
Her descriptions make the hotel and the food sound lovely.
It's weird how people act like star power is bringing viewers to theaters. I haven't seen the movie, but I will, and I'm sure he's good in it. But I'll see it because it looks like a great movie, not because I want to see the latest Michael B. Jordan film. I'm old enough to remember a time when an actor's name would sell tickets, but that was ages ago.
Or it's proof that God is real and he wants us to have heartburn.
And it comes up 00 because the house always wins.
SCHLURP
Schlurp is objectively better than Lickitung in any language. Snorlax is better than Relaxo, though.
Resevoir Dogs
Kirk Baltz.
Reverse this one and make that weird CGI baby the only muppet. That will make it less weird when she falls in love with an adult man, and he falls in love with her, a months-old baby.
I think I still have one of those FM dongles in a drawer, in case I ever need it.
And that would be hilarious.
Do you even hear yourself?
Germany is a real country though. Israel is a settler colony established through land theft.
Can you remind me why those Jewish immigrants had to move to Israel after WWII? Why they couldn't just go back to their homes in Europe?
By saying Israel has no right to exist I mean the racist genocidal ethnostate called Israel needs to be dismantled and become a one state with equal rights for all. That is not a call for genocide. That is a call for humanity.
I'll take you at your word that this is what you meant, but my point still stands because it does not come across that way at all. You may not be aware that there is an alarming resurgence of anti-Semitism globally (fueled in large part by the Israeli government engaging in the genocide of Palestinians). "Israel has no right to exist" is a common refrain among anti-Semites, and most of them do mean "Jewish people should not exist."
If you're not calling for a genocide, then you need to be clear when you're critical of Israel. Because sounding like a nazi gives credibility to the defenders of Israel who claim that all critics are nazis.
For the record no country has a right to exist. They either do exist or they don't.
Yes, and Israel exists.
Anyone who calls those things "communism," "woke," or "wrong" is not someone who gives a shit about these children or their mother.
dismantling the power of a geopolitical state in order to stop it from committing a genocide (which is what most people mean when they say "Israel doesn't have a right to exist")
I don't believe that is what most people mean when they say that.
As for the Nazi comparison, there were a lot of people who would have preferred we kill all the Nazis, but only a relatively small percentage were tried and convicted. Germany did not forfeit their right to exist, and the German people (including most of the Nazis) were allowed to continue on with their lives.
As for Hitler, I do think a trial would have been better for the world and the development of humanity. But like most narcissists, he was a coward and chose to shoot himself rather than face consequences.
Multidimensional expansion is rough, so let's collapse things down to two dimensions. Imagine a rubber band stretched between two chairs. On the rubber band, there are two ants. The ants both walk at exactly the same speed. If they both walk away, they travel at the same velocity. If they both walk towards you, same thing. If the walk towards each other, they are moving twice as fast relative to each other, but their speed is the same. Now, imagine you start pulling one chair away from the other. The ants still walk at the same speed, but the distance between them grows. If they are walking away, the closer one will appear to be moving slower than the one further away.
So with astronomy, we have ants to reference. Light travels at a constant speed. We can also tell if things are moving towards or away from us because of red and blue shifting of light. By measuring the color of the light we see, we can determine it's relative speed, and what we observe is that light from further away is moving away from us faster than light closer. Because light only travels at c, we can only conclude that space is expanding.
There are several other scientific proofs of the concept, but that was the easiest one for me to understand.
As for the Universe being infinite and expanding, let's go back to the rubber band. The band is a circle. There's no end, no beginning. The ants could go around and around forever and never reach the end. Now imagine a balloon, and we have two dimensions for the ants to traverse. They can go forward, back, left, or right. It doesn'tatter how long they walk, they will never reach "the end" of the balloon. If the balloon inflates, the whole thing gets bigger, but it's still unending. The trouble is adding third and fourth and fifth dimensions to the metaphor, because that gets really hard to visualize. Spacetime is all expanding, and we can extrapolate backwards to a time when all of spacetime had zero distance between points. Everything existed as a singularity, all of the universe and all of time compressed into zero dimensions. True story, the person who coined the term "The Big Bang" was using the phrase condescendingly as part of a criticism the theory, but every subsequent study of the theory has supported it.
Thrifty is the brand. It is part of the bankruptcy auction, and it is still available in some other stores in California. Saved you a click.
If they didn't, he probably wouldn't need to say anything. We'd all just agree that it wasn't necessary, because it is supported by medical science. He only seems like he's on the wrong side of every issue because literally everything he says out loud is intended to be a distraction. If he said something uncontroversial, it would be a waste of his precious time. You don't pay a shit stirrer to be reasonable.
The logical conclusion of opposing a genocide is not more genocide.