It does have a population greater than almost any nation on Earth

Now they’re looking

is the most jarring part of a headline I’ve seen all day

has finally arrived

Finally !

When you’re young, and taught to assume good faith, c’est vraiment une surprise

T as in Trumpist

Good point. He wasn’t just a 19th-century guy living with 19th-century values. He was worse.

Wow — congratulations to the people of California!

Except the “placeholder”.

I assumed it would be a little like New York’s junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand? She was someone most New Yorkers had never heard of, but when Senator Hillary Clinton vacated the seat, Gillibrand was assigned to it by then-governor and thus has never, and will never, run in a competitive election.

This is in very poor taste, especially so soon after this senseless tragedy that none of us – not even an associate district judge or Jesus – was powerful enough, or bothered enough, to prevent.

I feel like there might be more to it than the line of thinking.

But seriously, can I finally give up sorting my recycling?

In the olden days, Yahoo shuttered some of the largest digital properties on the internet with too little notice for them to be meaningfully archived (especially Yahoo Groups (easily the Reddit and Fediverse of its day) and Geocities (at a time before social media, a place to make a corner of the internet one’s own, it had mountains of longform geekery that’s now lost forever)).

Yahoo also used to be one of most widely used free email providers. Not as ubiquitous as Gmail, but definitely very popular. During that time, they had at least two – and almost certainly more than four – instances where bad actors gained access to user accounts and Yahoo failed to immediately notify impacted users.

This one time, they admitted that all their user email addresses, which then numbered in the billions, had been compromised by a years-old hack whose disclosure they seem to have withheld. The same thing happened a few months later, but affected only some email addresses. For the latter event, they were proven to have withheld discovery of the breach.

There was this one journalist whose email details they gave to the Chinese government to enable his arrest. Then they lied about it to Congress.

And while the NSA likely listens to every piece of data available to them, which trivially and almost effortlessly includes emails, and while Yahoo is one of the tech companies whose NSA PRISM membership is documented, Yahoo additionally performed scans for crime-adjacent keywords on all its users’ incoming and outgoing emails for years.

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Yes. /gcc/jit/docs/examples/emit-alphabet.bf.

Yes, but not worse than Yahoo[.]

Perfectly ambiguous. Deal.

I would say just wait. This is the not the SCOTUS you want making religion decisions that will outlive us both.

This part is a slippery slope that I don’t have a pithy hot take for. I wish I did.

I mean, do I really want to wait from 1776 or 1791 until 2013¹ for the state to mandate that all marriage license-issuing court clerks be required to issue marriage licenses to any unmarried pair of adults, even if the pair was assigned the same gender at birth?

Lots of Americans still resent that those clerks are funded by their tax dollars.

1. marriage between those without matching birth-certificate sex was the only legal marriage in the United States during this period

Jonathan Swift appears to have authored its first incantation in 1721:

Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired

More slaves alive today than at any other time in history, in fact.

And it’s been illegal worldwide since only 1981 (Mauritania), where it was essentially a misdemeanor until 2007.

Unfortunately, no one believes they are wealthy. Some believe they are comfortable. All believe they could have more.