Ginny [they/she]

Nah, plenty of billionaires have pilot’s licences. The only way to be sure is to rip and tear until it is done.

I believe the original source for this joke is Frankie Boyle: https://youtu.be/yZOLq82m2Ks

knock knock

Have you heard the good news about our lord and saviour, Linus Torvalds?

Don’t worry! They just faked his death so he could go work for section 31.

You pronounce those differently?

That’s an otterly different name!

I know people who are still calling Snickers bars Marathons. Telling people to let it go isn’t going to do you any good, either.

I don’t mind most marine mammals, but sea lions? I could do without sea lions.

Remembering my Grandma’s phone number from 25 years ago.

It makes it more likely that you’d get breast cancer - since you would start to grow breasts - but otherwise, no.

Ostracism is how communities change people with bigoted beliefs. When communities ostracise open bigotry, most bigoted people will at least keep their bigotry to themselves, in order not to be ostracised.

Pink sock.

If Henry Kissinger got to keep his peace prize, then they’re really wasting their breath.

The pointed stick.

The Posse Comitatus Act makes using troops to enforce federal law illegal, it’s true, and the UCMJ does say violating the law is an illegal order. But it’s not unconstitutional, and given the order came directly from the president and given the “unitary executive” bullshit that the supreme court has been on recently, I think it might be dubious that the LA ruling would survive an appeal that made it to the supreme court.

I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

The supreme court seems to bear out that Trump’s orders are constitutional and legal, and therefore they are following legitimate orders.

The problem isn’t that they are traitors, the problem is that they aren’t, but they should be.

I heard that bog was a rattlin’ bog. A bog down in a valley-o.

Walkable neighbourhoods with excellent public transport are perfectly (and I would bet more cost-effectively) possible with low and mid rises as you can with high rises. Good examples are Barcelona and Paris.

America’s weird zoning laws are a problem unto themselves. Here in the Old World it’s perfectly normal to have a row of shops and cafes and whatnot in the middle of the suburbs or on the bottom floors of a block of flats. That is the biggest factor in creating walkable neighbourhoods.

Edit: I accidentally a word.

In general I agree, but I am going to have to ask you for a source on that last one.

Have to agree to disagree. Most of the prettiest areas of London consist of Edwardian mansion blocks and Georgian terraces.