Last spring, I decided that I’d try to collect some maple syrup from a few of my many maple trees. So, I marked down which trees were maples, and when the weather started to get warmish, I struck:
Last spring, I decided that I’d try to collect some maple syrup from a few of my many maple trees. So, I marked down which trees were maples, and when the weather started to get warmish, I struck:
This is a spoiler-free review(tm) of a game Anna and I have been playing. Our together game-play process looks a lot like her holding the controller and doing all the things while I mutter helpful and sometimes not contradictory advice, or cheer, or commiserate.
I’m a bit suspicious about the flood of “brave Ukrainian resistance” stories. Some of them are already revealed to be false, e.g.: “The Ghost of Kyiv” was a well-executed 3d rendering. The Russians are taking casualties but they’re par for the course and they won’t be minding them, although the NATO alliance has admitted that they are flooding the country with newer, better anti-tank missiles and related gear.
The “DEFCON” (defense condition) system is a threat-display, now, but during the early cold war it was important.
Holy Pinker, Batman! The world is a vastly better place than we knew. Because: war.
I’m a bit over the moon, if not “at the Lagrange Point” about this.
Mitchell and Webb are the source of the fantastic “Are we the baddies?” sketch. But this one seems a bit more appropriate for the pandemic billionaire era.
I’m pretty sure everyone makes that joke, when they are talking about a boring bar.
Someone over at PZ’s, in a comment, mentioned “confederate flag toilet paper.”
The surveillance state has done a great job of conditioning our social response to what amounts to a massive violation of the constitution. Of course nobody cares. The information has been dropped in a way that nobody really understands it, and that is quite deliberate.