Fake news. Film, like all new technologies, was driven by porn, though at the turn of the 20th century, people were far too prudish for full nudity. Hence “footage”.

It’s funny up until it has real-world effects. Then it becomes fraud.

Looks like Edward Gorey, though the lettering looks a bit off.

If you wrap the wiring in heatshrink insulation, will that be OK, or does the PLA in close proximity to mains cables tend to melt/ignite/otherwise fail catastrophically?

An oriel is any bay window that starts above the ground. There are plenty of modernist examples as well.

Well, Chewbacca was a wookie from Endor, but there are no wookies on Endor, so obviously the judgment must be thrown out

Rather embarrassing for Israel to fumble something so basic

Roberts, in a hot-dog costume, trying to figure out who did this

Didn’t he also have a plan of forcibly sentencing people going cold-turkey off banned psychiatric medication to “therapy” on “organic food farm” labour camps?

They’re only inadequate if judged by the standards of representative democracy. If Reform UK LLC is treated as a kleptofascist hostile-acquisition and asset-stripping vehicle, they’re more than fit for the job. (See also: some of the goons in the Russian Duma.)

In the past, call centre workers in India and other low-wage countries would first go though courses teaching them how to pass for someone from the country they were specialising in, where they’d choose a name and persona, learn the accent/dialect and some basics that locals would be expected to know: if they, say, were doing Australia, they may end up watching some episodes of Neighbours, choosing a name like Shane or Kylie, and picking a footy team they support; if England, it’d be Eastenders, Premier League and something like Gareth or Nicky. They’d presumably do this at their own expense, though perhaps the call centre company might forward them the money and get it back from their pay.

Getting AI to make them sound like they’re from Bondi or Essex is probably more cost effective.

We’ll see if it is once the election results are in. If the Green vote collapses, it is. If the Greens end up taking councils from Labour, maybe not.

That’s what happens when you let a mad king play toy soldiers with your national military assets

There should be a c/americanheartwarming

Had anyone registered haspolanskiresignedyet.com yet?

The King will surely not be amused.

I wonder if it’ll hit the Green vote tomorrow.

The Kims had entertained ambitions to conquer South Korea, capture its industrial base and add its surviving population to the labour camp work force. Perhaps the pace of progress in Ukraine has caused them to reevaluate the feasibility of this.

Somewhere in Germany, a fax machine ran out of toner

Oof.