Skua

There was one built with a flat nozzle in 2021, so uh, guess this was the first one of the two

Maybe that’s why I misremembered it. I agree, it does seem like the exact opposite to what scientists actually do upon finding something they can’t explain

Ahh my mistake

Bunch of dickheads apparently feeling attacked in these comments

Wasn’t the whole thing about the scientists in the Three Body Problem that they recognised that their work was being sabotaged by something enormously more powerful?

Hollow Knight?

Couldn’t Biden in turn just pardon the killer?

Wait, when was it an independent Chagossian state?

Wait, people actually avoid Australia because of it? I mean, I do think of Australian wildlife as dangerous, but to me that means “don’t fuck about” rather than “don’t go at all”. And I live in the UK, where we killed everything that was even slightly dangerous to humans long ago

Please don’t do this to my wallet

The trick is that in German it’s fine to just take several words and delete the spaces between them if they’re expressing a single concept. Like if in English, we took the concept of Germans having a word for everything and just called it Germanvocabulary

Spain is in the top ten of global arms industry exports. Airbus Military is headquartered in Madrid

80% of Israeli Jews were born in Israel, they do not have an “actual home” to go back to

This one always makes me smile, because it’s from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’s just some guy’s blog in which he comes up with new words to express experiences and emotions that are difficult to describe, and that specific one has thoroughly broken containment

I made AltGr + / type an interrobang so I’d always have access to it

Are there any scripts in which all the characters are symmetrical across the vertical axis? So that, when written like this, the letters would be the same either way.

Edit: oh wait, I know one! Ogham, from medieval Ireland. There is one character that’s not symmetrical, but it’s apparently one of the five “additional” characters that do not appear in the majority of known examples of ogham

My favourite ever Crusader Kings patch note was “Intelligent women no longer confront their pregnant lesbian lover to ask if they are the father of that child. Stupid women however, still have a chance to ask that question.”

I do really worry that America would put boots on the ground in the event of an open Iran-Israel war. Especially if Iran starts winning.

Maybe Chile? They’ve got a tropical island and the mainland goes from desert to Antarctic

They spent a fifth of their sovereign wealth fund covering their budget deficit last year, I’m not sure that Russia has the capacity to scale things up