He’s shown a high degree of planning so far. Bringing a decoy bag and being casual in front of CCTV in not-his-clothes seems on the money at the moment. As soon as I heard he made a beeline for central park I bet he has a change of outfit and strolled out looking totally different. Sure enough they’ve found a bag in the park they think was his. He’s 2 to 3 steps ahead of them…

Or he’s terminal himself and pissed off

More women dying in childbirth = more men sat around in the dust with nothing but guns and Islam. What an existence…

Ah well that makes sense then

I get it, but also can you imagine a foreign country banning Amazon because “it means the US can see what you’re up to and it gets to choose what deals to push at you” etc?

I mean… Facebook for god’s sake…

Being protectionist makes sense sometimes but it screws you over when other countries start banning your apps in favour of home grown alternatives…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Plauché

The Mithras cult did not have any particular attachment to trees, you are probably confusing it with Saturnalia. But even then people did not bring a single solitary tree in, Saturnalia was celebrated by decorating rooms with many evergreen plants and branches as was common in a lot of winter solstice celebrations. The act of bringing in a single evergreen tree and decorating it came much much later, medieval times.

What is your plan for dealing with Hamas soldiers who have themselves committed war crimes and intend to again?

Trinity: what is he doing?

Morpheus: he’s beginning to believe…

16m deaths is a profit margin

I don’t like oat milk but it’s more milk-like than skimmed UHT (bleurgh…). But I guess the line had to get drawn somewhere…

True

The thought tends to go I) internal birth rates are failing because the cost of raising a family is too high ii) part of that cost is driven by high accommodation costs and downward pressure on wages iii) both of these are alleviated if immigration is restricted

I’ve no idea if that would actually work, but the logic makes some sense (obvious flaw being if you restrict immigration you lose workers now but internal births take a couple of decades to compensate)

What do you mean? On death row in most countries they’ll have already been condemned to execution by a specific method…

I believe it’s a little higher than general population but not by much. The sad truth is vocations with access to children have higher abuse rates (vicar, teacher, pastor, coach) because any adults with access to children have higher abuse rates. Religions authority is abused for sure, but the sad truth out of the Catholic and Anglican abuse scandals is that a fair number of abuse cases didn’t involve abuse of power. By that I mean in some cases it wasn’t an overt feature, there were cases of 14, 15 year olds acting out their attraction to older youth pastors and those people taking advantage by not saying no. That is clearly still illegal. But I only mention to illustrate that a feature of the higher abuse rates was - sadly - just the amount of contact time with children, rather than “religion” itself.

And all that’s really just to say, although I know “paedo priest” is a well established meme, the sad truth is that any contact between adults and children had to be safeguarded whether they’re priests, drag queens, or cross dressing bishops…

If he was fully on the leash then I would have expected surrender of the whole Donbas under threat of pulling aid

That, sir, is a 9 with a cape

What happened 3 years ago?

Prague if anyone is wondering

Can’t wait for the relaxing sound of 100 keyboards under exam conditions…