Really, nothing to do with the massive emissions testing fraud and associated legal costs?

Crows can recognize individual people… I wonder if they can also recognize individual coyotes?

The area and time I grew up in had zero non-English classes until high school! Literally just skipping the most beneficial periods of language learning. It was only required that we take 1 year of a foreign language to graduate, and that’s not really enough time to be proficient (or it wasn’t the way we were taught, anyway).

I’ve been casually learning Spanish for the past few years, and doing it on your own as an adult without paying for courses is hard, especially if your native language is in a different language family. I can definitely understand why people who emerge from the school system monolingual just stay that way.

Heads up, you replied to the wrong thread (I assume)

Jayzus, imagine the square footage of coca plants it would take to get that yield.

Europol, are you for real? You’re using Matrix-esque backgrounds on official photo releases for this? 😭

Always!

How I sleep knowing the Pope is unhappy about the ‘air of frociaggine’ in the Church: 😊💤

This is from the account that spread the image originally: https://x.com/ai_for_success/status/1793987884032385097

Alternate Bluesky link with screencaps (must be logged in): https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3ktarh3vgde2b

Is it me or does the legal analyst at 1:25 in the video bear an uncanny resemblance to John Waters?

Apologies for being so sketchy on the details but I really can’t remember too many of the specifics. I’m fairly certain it wasn’t that his family name came first, because that’s fairly straightforward. I think the author might have been from an east or southeast Asian culture? I think that part of the essay might have been about how addressing him as Mr. Firstname is actually more formal than Mr. Lastname, even though Firstname is not his family name. I don’t want to keep guessing on more details about how the naming conventions were different because I’m probably going to get it wrong, I have fairly low confidence in what I remember from it.

Because I have been completely unable to find it again and this seems like a relevant place to ask: does anyone have a link to an article similar to this, that I believe might have been titled ‘My First Name is My Last Name’? This is made extra hard to look up because I’ve forgotten the specific culture and details it’s talking about, but it’s about the same basic issue with cultural conventions on names.

Especially in context, where it’s contrasting QA testers and ‘normal’ people.

It would probably take longer to prompt ChatGPT to write this than it would to just write it. It’s two short paragraphs.

Are you surprised that the country that ushered the Nazis into power is more vigilant about making sure they never head remotely in that direction again?

Even the party’s leader resigned in 2022 because he saw that the party was becoming more totalitarian and incompatible with German democracy.

Lol what? The merger with the McDonnell Douglas Corporation (defense contractor) and continued focus on cheaping out on R&D costs, especially safety related tests, while maximizing investor payouts has way more to do with the quality of their planes than where they’re manufactured.

So Arend (and wife Anneesa) sold everything they had to move to sunny Russia and raise eight of their nine kids with “orthodox” values.

Jesus, imagine being the kid that got away.

ambulance team sent to rescue her vanishes

The Palestinian Red Crescent said Friday that more than three days had passed since it heard from an ambulance team [. . .] after they were fired on by an Israeli tank.

Gee, I wonder why they “vanished”??

I thought the exonerative tense in news reports couldn’t get more outrageous than it is with cops, but here we are.

Is letting people misgender me going to do anything other than normalize transphobia? What do you want me to do, respond to misgendering with a spiel about Palestine? This isn’t a hypothetical, I’m trans. Tell me how you think is the correct way for me to respond to someone misgendering me and how it affects Palestine.

Did you even know that a record breaking amount of anti-LGBT legislation was proposed in the US in 2023?

Absolutely, and wealthy people having less empathy is something that can be seen in studies.

Yeah, you show those wealthy exchange students! That’ll learn ‘em to not bring in their foreigner money!