Yeah, this has got to be suicide by cop. Choosing a big, obvious arrival method, making lots of noise but just shooting into the sidewalk, calmly hanging around until the officers arrive. This guy wanted to die.

Gotta ask for a citation on that one. Sure, you get an extra hour of sleep one day out of the year, but you lose an extra hour the other half of the year.

Ugh, is that stupid thing coming up again?

Why do we still bother with this? Should just pick one setup or the other and stick with it.

but im not sure how the original narrative, often recognized as one of our best, stacks up against the depth and variety of film.

What? Isn't the basic premise of the God of War games "Kratos was betrayed by the gods! Kratos will now kill (and occasionally bang) the gods as revenge!" Granted, I haven't paid much attention to the newer games, but is it actually considered a good story? Decent, passable, something like that OK. But "one of our best"?

Is the article going to talk about how part of the cause for the fire was the US refusing to sell Helium, thus forcing them to use Hydrogen?

<reads article>

Oh, good, it does. Along with a whole bunch of other stuff. Very interesting.

If they can 100% promise me a Spelljammer ship, that would be sufficient for me to join their cult. Ride the solar winds between the crystal spheres!

Justin Trudeau has entered the chat?

All those tweets, and they only mention two alternative books to look at. One is described on Amazon as a "fiercely and unapologetically feminist tale", and the other is "set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa." Not doing much to give me reasons to read someone else there!

Yeah. Saw an article earlier today lamenting the state of mask manufacturing in the US, how it got outsourced to China, came back a little bit when the WuFlu arrived and now is getting outsourced again so all the little pop-up mask factories are on the verge of shutting down again.

If we'd stop outsourcing everything then these problems wouldn't be as bad. Trade with other places, sure. But if you're relying on other countries to supply things that you think you'll need (oil much moreso than masks, of course), you're now tied to the fate of that other country.

Merryday’s injunction is “an extraordinary intrusion upon the inner workings of the military” and has essentially left the Navy short a warship, according to a Feb. 28 filing by the government.

Hmmmm, if only there was a simple, easy thing the government could do to get the ship deployable again. Something that would cost literally nothing and take about 2 seconds to do.

This is about kindergarten to 3'd grade.

And that's only a minor part of the bill. And not the part they're upset about. The part they're upset about is that the majority of the stuff in the bill forces schools to let parents know more about what's going on in there.

Victoria Nuland. Now where has that name come up before? Surely it's not the same Victoria Nuland who was caught in recorded phone calls back in 2014 discussing who should take over following the Euromaidan coup, is it?

Seriously, could these people possibly be any more incestuous?

Same. I like about 6 miles or so from work. There is a bus, technically, I could take. But:

1. There are only a handful of times a day I can get on it. Checking the schedule, I've got a pickup at 7:38, or I can wait until 10:20.

2. I then need to ride the bus to it's end, and switch buses.

3. Assuming bus 1 arrives on time (there's an 8 minute window), I can hop the other bus at 8:30, which would get me to work at 8:41. If I miss that 8 minute window, it's then 9:30 on the bus, arrival at 9:41.

Or, I can drive <15 minutes because it's only like 6 miles.

True, but

a) the Bee is getting too good at this so it's often hard to tell

b) give it two weeks, and let's see if it is still just satire

it aims to begin early-stage trials of vaccines targeting 15 high-priority pathogens identified by global health authorities.

So, you're going to start trials of shots against things that are not yet causing problems? What could possibly go wrong?!

When COVID-19 vaccines were first authorized in late 2020, the public wasn’t informed that the touted effectiveness might decline, a top U.S. health official said on March 3.

It's almost like there's a reason the protocol is to do longer term studies, rather than taking something that's only been around a few months and start forcibly injecting people with it. I wonder whose job it is to do and oversee things like that. And I "wonder" why they didn't do that.

President Biden, the economy is heading further south! Inflation is even more absurd! What do we do? Something useful?

Don't be absurd! Let's start floating the idea of price controls so that we can further take over the economy and bring about Government Run Utopia(tm) (actual utopian conditions not guaranteed, unless you're a government official or toady)

I trust them more. Not that I want anything to do with them, but the rules do make a certain amount of sense (in that, they can be followed, not that I agree with them). And are much less likely to change at the drop of a hat, unlike Wokeism. Neither is a good option (I'd much prefer "just leave me the flip alone!"), but if I had to choose between praising Winnie the Pooh or living in Wokeistan, I'd choose Pooh.

I think it's in Quebec that that a Poutine restaurant is changing their name because it's too close to Putin.

Man, that's going to be extra-rough for places that serve Poutine Rapee, because the only thing that name can mean is you support Putin's rape of Ukraine.

No idea who the governments are, but even if he made the whole thing up definitively declaring himself a free speech absolutist is a good thing in my book.

Really don't like horror games, but poked around with it a bit.

In my mind, the atmosphere works well, though I did "cheat" once and turn the brightness all the way up.

Will partially agree with others on holding the mouse button being annoying. I think requiring it for the books is OK, but it took me a bit to even get out of the first room since I was just clicking the door instead of click and dragging.

The biggest change I would make it adding some indicators to the books you need to pick up, and the destination slot. Took me like 30 seconds or so of slowly moving the cursor over every single item in the section to locate the book I needed to grab. And similarly, when asked to shelve a book it took a bit to actually locate the slot it was supposed to go which was, on the surface, no different than any of the other slots. Maybe having them flash occasionally or something would help.

I can get that it can be said with hat, but if I recall the rules of Wheel of Fortune, all instances of a letter get revealed when it is guessed right? If so, "hat" is obviously wrong since H and T have already been called (as evidenced by "another" and "feather").

I know twitter names are not always IRL names, but part of me wonders if he tried identifying himself as Gregor Thunderdragon on the job. I at least wouldn't be surprised.

From one of the Twitter replies, though

You’re incredibly ableist. Not everyone is a neurotypical and has the tools or ability to formulate arguments/explanations in an easily understanding way without being misunderstood.

Well, then, I suggest you learn how to communicate rather than spending time sperging out about how people can't understand you.

Think it was ultimately the drugs, but might have been making leather out of the skin of your enemies

Not sure if you're aiming for sarcasm or didn't catch the story, but they're already banning the cats. Link to it on here from a couple days ago