and would put Twitter’s users at risk of hacks and exposure to offensive material such as child pornography.

Really? Does this person, ostensibly a former Twitter staffer, not know Twitter's already shameful record in regards to CP?

Pretty much.

Not entirely - look at the kid's tin hat - that - and the film - are about World War One, not two...

Ehh, statistics would be something that means something, imo.

Cresting towards 100 million

So it's less than 100 million. Some number less than 100 million. We don't know what it's 100 million of, but we know it's less than that.

You see where I'm going with this?

they’re claiming them as objective critical and commercial failures. Against all evidence. Against statistics and feedback. It’s baffling.

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I hope they charged quite a bit for that article.

Is this not getting rather far afield from your original point, however?

We've gone from "freedom" to "most heavily armed man wins" ... I hope your benevolent King of legend and fairytale is fortunate enough to be an extremely well-armed benevolent King...

There certainly are ways to make proper ammo at home.

Unfortunately there are also quite a few ways immediately adjacent to that to lose a limb.

how is this political party so shambolic?

Simply put, they're trying to beat the UK's socialists at the socialism game. It's an utter, utter shambles.

Even assuming you're correct, unless you're running a black powder AK-47 sourcing ammunition for it is going to be considerably more complex.

Even making black powder isn't risk-free.

... do you know what normally happens to those peasant revolts?

I'll give you a clue: It rarely ends well for the peasants.

Under an absolutist monarchy, kings rely on a certain amount of popular support to stay in power.

No, no they don't. They rely on the armed forces and they rely on the nobility, whom they keep on side with various favours and grants.

Royals like Charles III make a very persuasive argument for the UK's constitutional monarchy that restricts their role to the one that everybody's happy with.

Unless they're doing the Gandhi thing, and ordering delicious extravagant meals, to rot in front of themselves, as proof that they're actually faithful to their hunger strike.

I'm fairly sure that people like this are not capable of that level of self-discipline.

Oooh! I have an idea!

Let them order food, and leave it out of reach.

Then place something to dissolve the glue within reach.

Better yet, get somebody cooking a barbeque outside the door to the building and make sure the smell wafts in.

Now, now, let's be fair. I firmly believe she deserves to be president.

In the hellworld that is Star Trek: Discovery

TFW the company you're protesting honours your "protest" more than you do.

Do we reckon there's any chance they break down and admit they're LARPing for victim points and just ask to be allowed home?

Oh, I think it's this that got him:

none of us want your well wishes or pity.

or pity

Well, such is the life of pitiful people. I suggest he gets used to it.

Curiously, by the nineteenth century, Britain's colonialism was at least partly about stopping slavery and other barbarous practices.

Have we come full circle, then, when slavery is in fact acceptable - provided it's home-grown slavery?

As I recall they're not banned but you have to pay a $200 tax and undergo enhanced vetting to be allowed to purchase such a weapon.

Do you also need an FFL to purchase automatic weapons?

I can't see how an assault rifle would significantly affect "mass shootings" in such a fashion - most such shootings were conducted with handguns rather than an assault rifle, were they not?

Eh, I mean, I wouldn't be here if they hadn't, half of my gene pool would be on the wrong side of the continent, but still...

... just a quick question - are there any constitutional amendments that NY likes?

Obviously they decided they could get away with this (and they almost certainly will).

Well, at the moment, they seem to be asserting that the protestor in fact dived into the consulate, so keen was he to attack CCP truncheons with his face.

It remains to be seen whether GMP will swallow what appears to be a transparent lie for the sake of saving face.

Yup. Why would I want to announce to the world the best ways to hurt me?

... as opposed to worshipping the ideals of some middle-class failure to launch who spent his life living on other people's sofas and ranting about the various classes of people he despised?

Even the towns in these places in rural areas have the space to be semi self-sufficient but cities, they'll eat each other within a few weeks.

That'd be terrible. A high-cholesterol diet like that could takes years off your lifespan...