Why not ask them to buy two tickets while they’re at it?

At this point I wouldn’t trust Boeing to make a safe can opener.

He has a fuselage in his hangarage.

Are you talking about a philosophical zombie?

Technically these aren’t logos, they’re wordmarks (AKA “logotypes”).

So the Butlerian Jihad begins.

Her Wikipedia page says she was a Republican until 2022 (the year she left the pro-PRC news site and joined the city council), but then switched parties.

Wang and Sun operated the news website U.S. News Center, aimed at the Chinese American community, and were instructed by Chinese government officials to post pro-PRC content on it.

So was she acting as a Chinese agent in her role as mayor, or just as the operator of a website posting PRC propaganda?

If I had to coin a term, I’d call it “aesthetic ergodicity”.

As in, a culture that keeps revisiting every combination of aesthetic parameters over and over with no long-term trend.

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Even if it worked perfectly… isn’t clerking the way future attorneys and judges are supposed to get experience?

There’s nothing preventing businesses from changing their hours over time as well (and in the long run, I suspect they’ll eventually settle on the same physical hours regardless of whether we choose standard time or permanent DST).

I agree—I’m drinking tea with some kava in it right now.

On the other hand, from people I know who worked in Army medical I get the impression that soldiers will find ways to abuse anything they possibly can.

For anyone who doesn’t want to read the whole article, the ingredient is kava root.

Permanent DST is equivalent to permanent standard time with business hours moved an hour earlier. I assume that standard business hours were originally set by businesses to maximize profits—so if permanent earlier hours are better for business than permanent standard hours, why didn’t businesses set earlier hours to begin with?

USA, too—Spanish and French.

If we’d had a third language it probably would have been Chinese instead of German—the cultural influence of German was minimal in the part of California where I grew up.

So maintain chip volume, but switch production from memory chips to corn chips.

The account starts reporting unexpected transactions.

TASS is Russia’s state-owned news agency, so there’s no expectation of neutrality or journalistic best practices.

It can still be informative, as long as the stories are taken as the best plausible narrative they can construct to account for whatever it is that actually happened.

as well as a Nobel laureate in economics

So a fake Nobel, then.