11/11/11! It’s been a while.

You either ignore it with a new actor, or if you actually care about continuity for some reason, you have M say "Okay, you're the new 007. And to confuse our enemies you're adopting the name of the last guy, too. You'll be Bond. James Bond." Not hard.

Looked for it, found this; it must be a previous reading list since it has 11 books and I suspect someone had the sense to remove the first one

fifty years to the day since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down and was immortalized in song forever "Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" is an all time banger of a lyric

That's absurd. A fence won't be arranged optimally for energy production, but if it's cheaper than the alternative, why not? Amazing.

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Looking over a British birth certificate and it's entitled "Certified Copy of an Entry." Yes, "entry" is one way to put it.

If I were a senator's spouse/parent/child I would inform my senator spouse/child/parent that they can come home for the holidays with their shield or on it

The person-hours lost, seconds at a time, because "United States Minor Outlying Islands" sorts before "United States of America"

put a gun to my head and force me to say something nice about the current federal executive:

This seems an excessive overreaction for a Director General to resign over that. The BBC is held to *much* higher standards than every other media outlet, on accuracy and inaccuracy, yet inconsistently and arbitrarily in the detail www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Reflecting on this, I think another sticking point on some eleven+ figure valuations is that a lot of people don’t know or can’t admit to themselves that they are satisfied with superficially plausible nonsense.

Between the current shutdown and the one in Trump's first term, the majority of the time the federal government has been shut down has been under him.

"High profile migrant sex offender accidentally released from prison re-arrested after they wander to the Finsbury Park area" is a weirdly specific thing to have happen twice.

saw a quote post which said "we ought to talk about wages, including the fact that many dependants might actually earn *less* than UK-born residents." and I mean *why* would we want to talk about that? they don't *have* to work. it's not a requirement! if they do, and many do, it's a bonus isn't it

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

ECONOMICS GAMES ARE NOT ABOUT MONEY AND I CAN PROVE IT BY SHOWING THIS ALIEN BABY ABSOLUTELY BEEFING IT AND LOSING ALL AUTONOMY AND LIVELIHOOD IN SPACE WARLORD BABY TRADING SIMULATOR. I GROW MORE NORMAL BY THE DAY.

On the one hand, they tore down a cultural artifact, probably exposed their workers to asbestos, and surely will be blacklisted from working with any non-Republican group in the future. On the other hand, they got predictably stiffed.

Great article. This is why none of this ever made sense.

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Reminder to pro-business Americans: Canada has something like twice as many self-employed people and small businesses per capita as you because even self-employed Canadians can get unemployment insurance and healthcare. It's great for our local economies.

The headline about Spanberger's blowout victory in VA--along with the Dems romping in the House of Delegates--is that transphobia really doesn't work as an electoral secret weapon. And this fact needs to set in, despite the dearest wishes of the most ossified members of the commentariat.

-the 100 miles is bad -applying it to coasts is worse -applying it to functionally an interior waterway is the worst

Filling out a government form and my answer depends on whether the Home Office knows about vacuous truth

*DICK CHENEY DEAD AT 84: PUNCHBOWL

My son is on blockers legally from before the ban and we did everything they told us to do and now we are being threatened with social services if we don't allow them to "safely withdraw" medication. They admit that the impact will be "stark" for our kids but they are going to do it anyway.

That part of West London where people sometimes insist that their postal town is Middlesex

Regardless of the success of Ambassador Spock’s secret diplomacy, we should actively discourage rogue representatives of the Federation making their own foreign policy.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Ghosts ‘n Gnostics

A little serenity prayer for myself: I will argue neither with people who like DST, nor with those who want to eliminate time zones

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago. He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

He’s not really trying to hide it. It’s open, unapologetic racism; let’s be plain about it.

So how exactly does a leveraged short sell work, mechanically? If you put up more borrowed cash (as collateral?), you can borrow more shares?

Realized that if I use an application on my laptop that's a port of a phone app, I refer to it as a "desktop app." e.g. "the WhatsApp desktop app." On my laptop. Not sure if this is just my idiolect?

Happy Halloween to all the Glaswegian guys dressing up as a girl today as a "joke", good luck with your gender affirming care appointments in two centuries time

(As a side note, that should be a nail in the coffin for the idea that PBLLCs give any kind of guarantee or oversight in terms of morals or ethical behavior. I'm not saying a PBLLC is necessarily bad, but rather that being a PBLLC isn't evidence of being *good* without some additional details […]

guy in the Twin Cities named George T. Floyd destroys Black Lives Matter signs? that seems highly improbable

Saying publicly to keep myself honest: I’m not buying Europa Universalis V on release. I know better.

TIL the Hudson’s Bay Company is in the process of being liquidated. Its IP assets were sold to Canadian Tire. Wow.

If there's a recipe for ferocity, all the ingredients are found in an empty pantry.

Recently I posted about how there’s shit genealogy data online because people will just make any connection they can, because they have bad epistemologies and it’s fun. This is that but with real stakes for people’s lives.

Someday somebody will figure out what makes Ghost Town work.

will kim is still in ICE detention

My wife and I independently came to the conclusion that this inner London house looks like it should be in suburban Pittsburgh

So “Mountbatten Windsor” is an extra strong FU, right? The royal family is “Windsor,” representatives of the state. But as a courtesy to Prince Phillip, the old queen decided that non-royal descendants would have the double barreled surname.

Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.