To forestall the obvious: I do of course know that it's not an actual halo, merely a strategically-placed chandelier. But it was strategically-placed and the very first shot of the trailer. Hands up anybody who thinks that was a coincidence or some kind of happy accident? Anybody?

Yes, what could possibly go wrong with altering your body and your environment so that it depends on a corporation's proprietary technology?

What's that? The firm that supplied your mods just fell victim to a state-sponsored hostile takeover from China? Guess you're a communist now, then - or at least, that's what your bill of sale says...

Maybe they're waiting for GRRM to pop his clogs so they can find a more malleable author to take the project on?

The convictions come after an earlier case against the two men ended in a mistrial when jurors were unable to agree on a verdict.

... can somebody explain how that isn't double jeopardy, or is one of the more "interesting" facets of this case that the FBI gets to bring you to court as many times as it takes for them to get something to justify their expenditure on this entrapment case?

It's how you get away with colonising the place in the modern world.

Coming soon to a Democrat city near you?

Yup. The only thing Vaush sees as wrong with lynch mobs is the demographics they went after. Everything else, he's just fine with.

Remember, kids, Vaush says that if the mob comes to kill you, your role is to play dead!

But of course. The headline is the bailey, the article is the motte.

This article is designed to be disingenuous and misinform credulous fools who only read the headline.

My question is why one would bother reading even that?

As I read it, it's basically "Yes, I'm some spinster cat lady who will die alone and childless, my corpse feeding my cats for a couple of weeks, but at least I got to be mindlessly spiteful to men for a few years!"

I used to think the Biden administration's goal was to use the power of federal government to turn the entire US into NYC.

However, with the reaction to immigrants being bussed around, I'm now not sure that even they understand what their goal is, apart from weathering the unending litany of disasters until they can find a viable candidate to replace Old Yeller...

I can't help but think that Sam Harris from 20 years ago would be quite disappointed in today's Sam Harris.

Warren said the governor was essentially seeking to nullify the will of voters in the Tampa area who elected him in 2016 and 2020.

No word on Warren appointing himself the ability to ... nullify the will of the voters by disregarding duly authorised state legislation?

Later edit:

I mean, fundamentally, if he's talking about his decision that Tampa simply does not follow state law any more ... that's secession. More than that, that is Andrew Warren unilaterally deciding that Tampa should secede from Florida. I'm fairly sure his election campaign didn't mention that

A lot of people don't seem to realise that - until a bunch of zealous CofE types got involved - I'm not even christian, but that was such a fundamental part of their thinking that it's not fair to omit it - slavery was a global constant. Prior to that little bit of enlightenment, it would have been weird for somebody in power to not have slaves.

Except in the UK, where, even before we gained the power to impose our sensibilities upon the world, we held the practise to be distasteful within our own borders. Amusingly, our centuries-long crusade against slavery may all have started as a post-Conquest cash grab by William I. The thought of some Royal slush fund turning into a global crusade does still amuse me...

Yeah. Worth noting that where the UK system really shines in comparison to the US is basically for people too poor to afford health insurance. As I understand it, if you're in that kind of situation in the US things can be very bleak. Something like that is far less likely in the UK, which of course makes it's own tradeoffs, quite a few of which I don't particularly agree with.

Perhaps this one follows chaos undivided...

Why would he not?

Papa Nurgle will be pleased with this one.

I'm not sure these people realise that it does not simply require a big enough Twitter mob to make it retire from public life...

Not only no, but your own article tells you it doesn't

Those articles were not written for people who read past the headline.

Ahh, I couldn't remember if I'd seen that in a film or read it in a book. I've not read Hobbit anything like as much as I have LotR

Unless it's the Mary Sue logic that their chosen self-insert must dominate in all areas. Can't have a rounded character, with strengths and weaknesses, because that would be problematic.

This is one of the things I really don't get about the Rangz of Powah series.

You've got Galadriel - bloody Galadriel - as some ninja warrior elf.

Galadriel, niece of Fëanor. She is one of the strongest magic users in the entire story. She can dismiss the Nine without struggle. Holding a pointy bit of tin is a hell of a step down for her.

You do, of course, realise that it's your own fault.

It's not like you're about to give up all of your possessions and surrender yourself into slavery willingly are you?

So, because of your intransigence, your wise and benevolent masters in the DNC have been forced to destroy the US economy, to make sure you and all of your friends are driven to the ideologically correct conclusion - True Communism™ in our lives!

• True Communism not guaranteed. In the event True Communism™ fails to install a worker's paradise, being imprisoning and killing workers until True Communism™ is reached, or your attempt is overthrown, in which case it'll be re-branded as Not True Communism™.

I mean, I think the good Sergeant is being somewhat hyperbolic here, but still ... Gracchus was only allowed to make a nuisance of himself for so long before he was simply killed and dumped in a sewer.

Though I hope that anybody thinking along those lines in the modern era would note that the killing of Gracchus simply lead to Caesar seizing power soon afterwards.

If Canada's weekly GBP is 2.6 trillion dollars, though, her annual GDP is 135 trillion dollars - bigger than the US by a factor of ten.