“He had a camera and was shooting everyone in sight! We had to neutralize him as he as dressed like a Vuarnet ad from the 90s!”

Isn’t there also shorthand where you just write the base components and people understand what you mean because even though the radicals are missing, the core meaning of the glyph is still close enough?

The difference is that the shorthand isn’t based on phonetics but on the core meaning of the calligraphic strokes.

It’s why Japanese writers can communicate with Cantonese speakers through quick strokes on their palms. The radicals are all different but the base components are the same.

Similar to a German person stripping back words to core syllables.

Heigh ho, heigh ho, into deep space we go….

I like yours better.

Wait a minute… on earth, aren’t carbonates formed by sedimentary deposits of bio-concentrated carbon? Where did the carbonates come from on Mars?

Remember that the Afghan Taliban isn’t simple either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld

Because Apple isn’t stupid. There’s no money in being an ISP unless you’re willing to do things Apple doesn’t want to be perceived as doing.

Apple had eWorld — that was their last foray into being an ISP, and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.

Most major content producers have agreements with YouTube such that as their content is discovered, monetization all goes to the rights holders. In general, this seems like a pretty good idea, and better than copyright maximalism.

However, I’ve had original works of my own “monetized by rights holder” because they used my work (with permission) in one of their products, and so now have co-opted all expressions of my work on YouTube. So the system isn’t perfect.

And technically the scientists weren’t on board when they discovered it, since the ship was in dry dock and they were in a lab.

Tchotchkes?

Magnets that power these facilities are imperfect, and even tiny fluctuations in magnetism can cause resonance.

Thing is, it’s not even limited to the magnets. As the energies go up, things like global gravitational flux and even changes in mass near the accelerator will affect the particle’s path. If this happens over time in line with a resonant frequency, you can get the double bounce effect.

I wasn’t able to tell how much of this they’re currently accounting for with their model, or if they are only factoring in the known magnetic imperfections.

I was thinking more in line with the recent DOGE actions that resulted in people being incorrectly added to the legally dead database.

Is incorrectly labeling someone as legally dead considered a crime? Like, equivalent to manslaughter or murder depending on intent?

Instead we’re stuck listening to Vogon poetry.

To protect them from parasites, yes.

The complaint itself is disheartening, but isn’t necessarily about it being an indigenous flag; if the strata has a rule against hanging flags from balconies, it could just be that the strata didn’t know about the flag law, and someone didn’t like it in general (and would have complained no matter what flag it was).

Personally, I think it would be great to give this particular flag the same protections as a civic flag.

Isn’t a party just a coordinated mass candidacy?

I presume they mean in a single riding, but still….

I always assumed it was sheep dip.

Er, I think they mean “Scientists aboard Great Lakes research vessel discover new life” don’t they?

The goo wasn’t really on board; it was on rudder.

Well, the thing about being a criminal is that it means you’ve been convicted of a crime.

Trump is a criminal. But he was born in the US to US citizens.

The goal is to make all sorts of things crimes such that it’s almost impossible to function in the US as a foreigner without committing a crime. At that point, the government can choose the people to deport at their whim.

Since birthright citizenship is being struck down, and this government interprets the constitution as only applicable to citizens, expect Trump to attempt again to pass legislation for more types of citizenship nullification.

One tricky bit is, if you’re declared legally dead, you immediately become an illegal resident if you’re still alive. And DOGE has already declared a number of people dead by misinterpreting a few databases.