Related: Legislation should come with test cases.

Then of course, the choice is yours…

Originally a Drumpf was a drummer; i.e. one who makes their living off of hitting up skin heads.

They certainly do miss some dangerous items, including weapons; but they also do catch thousands of people per year trying to take firearms on planes.

How many of these people intended political violence against civilians (i.e. terrorism) is not determined. Some may intend ordinary nonpolitical violent crime. Some may be really stupid hunters who don’t read the signs that are all over airports telling hunters not to try to carry on firearms. Some may be really incompetent gun smugglers. Some may have just forgotten which backpack they put their handgun in.

https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2024/07/09/tsa-stopped-3269-firearms-airport-security-checkpoints-nationwide

Have you seen the elf care system in this country!?

A hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.

Goddamn tree jizz!

There are 10,000-year-old arrowheads sold for that much or less. They’re not scarce or sacred or anything; they’re literally weapons that were made in mass quantities for warfare or hunting.

I think it’s pretty neat when people get to do stuff they like with other people who want to join them.

“… and he was aiming for John Connally.”

Here’s my peace proposal: Putin goes out a window, and Zelenskyy gets to be Tsar of the traditional territory of the Kyivan state.

The unofficial sequel to Untitled Goose Game is Little Kitty, Big City.

Ideologically, Leninism supported vanguardism, a variation on Marxism that said that the Communist party was supposed to drag the early-20th-century proletariat into the revolution, instead of waiting for late capitalism where the proletariat would (according to Marx) naturally become revolutionary. This, and the notion of “false consciousness”, authorized Communist parties to go against the expressed (democratic) will of the proletariat, on the theory that the proletariat’s judgment was clouded by false consciousness, while still claiming to act in the interests of the proletariat.

Basically, “we (the party) know better than you (the people)” was ingrained into Leninism from the beginning, and the major communist revolutions either were or became Leninist. Maoism was a branch off of Leninism as well.

“Buffy” was originally a nickname for “Elizabeth”, but then the TV show happened, and Buffy Summers is not an Elizabeth.

Utah Mormons often give their kids odd names. That’s where “Nevaeh” was invented, too.

Yep. I was thinking of Heinlein’s 1952 The Rolling Stones, where the person doing the timing calls out commands to the person controlling the engines, like an old-timey sea captain. (And in German, despite being an English-speaking family, because rocketry is German, donchaknow: Brennschluss!)

In some mid-20th-century science-fiction novels, people in the 21st century are piloting rockets by manual control, using slide rules to calculate trajectories.

She’s not gonna pick you up, Phil, she’s just stopping for the iguana.

There was the original 1947 UN plan for the partition of Palestine, for one. You can read in that article about which groups accepted and rejected it.

One thing you get with open-source games is families of variants, where the code for a game has been forked and developed in different directions by different developers.

OG roguelikes such as Nethack and Angband are an example of this. Rather than mods for a single game, there are variants — code forks that add new features, quests, monsters, skill systems, user interface elements, and so on. There are several dozen Angband variants. Some variants draw upon multiple other ones, combining patches to make a particular developer’s preferred form of the game.