Malgas

Tra(i)ns.

Then who was phone?

Eh, you take the bad with the good.

Sure, Ea-Nasir may be the worst copper merchant you’ve ever heard of.

But you have heard of him.

Hell, the US military has a detailed strategic plan for responding to zombies.

Not that that sort of thing is unique to the US. cf. Crisis in Zefira, a sci-fi training scenario commissioned by National Defense Canada.

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was “Usher of the Black Rod” just because some geezer had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d lock me away!

european bourbon

I know what you’re getting at, but bourbon whiskey is a protected designation of origin. By definition it can only be made in the US.

It’s the first What If?, even:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

One does not gimply walk into Mordor.

7.5±1.5

Everything is either Jigglypuff or not Jigglypuff.

🔫🌼 Always has been.

I don’t know how Steam tracks their numbers, but if they split domestic and international sales it’s possible that the US isn’t part of “worldwide” in this context.

But even if it is, something can be the #1 seller in one but not the other, so “both” is noteworthy.

I’ve only ever heard that term used in Cajun cooking, where it refers to onion, celery, and bell pepper.

The version with carrot is mirepoix.

Looking at you Windows 11

Yeah, I got a new laptop recently with no intention of using the pre-installed OS, but I wanted to boot it up once just to make sure all the hardware was working.

It may have actually taken longer to figure out how to create a local account on W11 than to wipe it and install Linux.

Reminds me of an old joke:

I went to a zoo the other day that only had one exhibit…a dog. It was a shih tzu.

Hitchcock theme

Funeral March of a Marionette.

Just to note: Marie Curie’s lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.

Skin bandits?

Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.

…I don’t know why that’s surprising to me, since they’re just Unicode, but it is.

I believe the g palatalizes the n, so it’s more like nyok-key.