In Ottoman Turkey, burglars would set a tortoise with a lighted candle on its back loose in a house they were planning to rob, to check if there was anyone home.

That sounds really… economically anxious

Correction: Adams’ cause of death was not prostate cancer as earlier reported, but autoerotic asphyxiation.

Update: the pornographic material found at the scene has been confirmed to be AI-generated Shrek mpreg.

Somebody ought to sit him down and explain the Mercator projection to him.

He should be awarded a prize for services to womens’ horticulture, given the number of women at MIT who filled their offices with houseplants just to keep him away.

RMS doesn’t approve

TIL there was a Kirby vacuum cleaner company

Maybe he could get the chatbot to play not only his girlfriend but their kids as well. Then he can beam proudly as he shows people a chat window on his phone. You do you, buddy!

You know the saying “behind every sign there’s a story”? It may apply to laws as well.

Also, almost no Icelanders have last names (in the sense of family names). Most have just a patronymic that translates as “son/daughter of (father’s name)” (i.e., Björk’s father was named Guðmundur), which is why references to Icelanders in the news refer to them by given name. As the Icelandic name pool is limited (there’s a naming committee which must approve all new names, and they’re somewhat conservative), the population register also includes people’s nicknames.

The Lucrezia Borgia clause

How about “jackanapes”?

“Hey baby, are you the British economy? Because I’d like to give you a weak pound”

I wonder how long until they quietly resume running them

also, somebody who is au fait with transphobia

the lawyer replies “fuck the kids!”, to which the priest protests “there’s no time for that”

The kind of moron who, when asked if they’d like their pizza cut into 4 or 6 slices, says “4. I could never eat six!”

You’re right. There’s no way two people could have appeared in the same photograph years before they met. What dumbasses all the normies upvoting that post must be!

Hot take: They/them should be a drop-in replacement for other pronouns, and should be the default unless you need to know otherwise (and you generally don’t need to know how your tax attorney or taxi driver, Sam from Accounting or a bystander interviewed on the TV news sexually identifies).