Apparently the lights in the letters L, M and A in the Islamabad Airport sign once went out, treating new arrivals to the news that it IS A BAD AIRPORT.

You own a handful of shares, the dividends of which would cover 0.1% of a very modest lifestyle → you’re a millicapitalist.

OTOH, look at all the Stormtrooper cosplayers, who actually have formal legions and get into character about defending the Empire the way Good Germans would about the Third Reich.

One problem with Star Wars is that it makes fascism look cool to enough of the public that the next generation of real-world Nazis approvingly quotes it. (Compare this with Doctor Who, whose in-universe fascists, the Daleks, are kind of pathetic and not something anyone would emulate.)

Also, he had, by all accounts, a crush on a noblewoman named Beatrice, whom he made into the embodiment of beauty and goodness in his books.

Is it legal to not be a Muslim in Saudi Arabia? I thought it was a crime unless one had special dispensation (typically granted to foreign advisors and such).

The real-world equivalent of a typical fediverse account

Is the AI coming up with your ideas as well?

Sorry mate, I gave up driving years ago.

There’s apparently a resort town in Thailand where all the local staff speak Swedish, because the tourists are almost all Swedish.

“Also, we’re not antisemites. We love Netanyahu and think he’s up there with Reagan and Pinochet as one of history’s great statesmen”

I should probably give The Illuminatus! Trilogy another read.

You can make a full 32-bit RISC-V out of 5,900 transistors? That’s about ⅔ of a Z80.

This is the future conservatives want

Are they automating their jobs away to let the rest of humanity live lives of joyous leisure, or will those non-owners who no longer provide utility to the owners just be starved to death?

This is my surprised face

But is that the “real” Nicole, or a metascammer trying to piggyback on the scam?

Any joy the little people still have in their lives is potential profits left on the table

Judging by their mugshots, they were perpetuating a longstanding family tradition

I suspect Nicole is a similar sort of operation to Aidana the pretty lady dentist from Kazakhstan, only aimed at people who’d be more sceptical. So instead of stealing images from a fitness influencer, they got some from a more average-looking young woman and made up a story. If it’s like Aidana, there’s a guy somewhere (probably in the hinterland of Russia or elsewhere in the former USSR) whose day job is to string the people who reply along, lead them into believing they have a relationship with this lady, make sure they’re absolutely sure this isn’t a scam, and then pig-butchering them for all they’re worth.

Perhaps he means the conservative canard that belief in a common good and/or attempting to make the world a better place are the root of all evil, and that, had they rejected public service and instead competed against each other in one marketplace or another, there’d have been no Holocaust and no gulags, only millions of naturally unremarkable deaths