The great* thing about wars in the Middle East is that you can recycle old ethnic slurs just by prefixing them with “sand”

IIRC, in the early 20th century, it was considered fashionable in some segments of French Canada to get all one’s teeth pulled out and replaced with dentures, so maybe time is a flat circle here.

Downvoted for AI slop

Did he bring her back to the US after the war ended?

Hopefully this is like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: the tipping point when the authorities realise that they no longer have authority.

They may have to race Norway for it.

Threadbare. In cities like NYC, it approximates European transport, though is somewhat more dysfunctional. Elsewhere, you have things like “commuter rail” (like a regio/S-bahn, only with next to no off-peak service, running solely as a shuttle between CBDs and dormitory suburbs). There’s Amtrak, but it’s slow and infrequent and runs on tracks owned by freight railroads, and often is delayed by hours from waiting for freight trains to pass. Bus services have a stigma, associating them with poor (and typically non-white) people, to the point where people who have a choice avoid them, and vote to minimise the amount of their tax money that goes to pay for them. And in some Republican states, the government has scrapped even buses, replacing them with Uber vouchers mailed to households.

So yes, DB is creaking and needs investment to bring it up to scratch, but its service levels (even when wracked by delays) are utopian compared to most of the US.

How did the cats pay, or was Victorian London a communist utopia (though only for cats)?

The party could also split the Democrats, or at least split some of their billionaire patrons off, with “reasonable” “centrist” money no longer going to the “sensible grownup” corporate Dems.

What’s the frequency for forklift/crane certificates or similar? Driving a car should be regulated similarly (with the proviso that it is accepted that many blameless people will be found unfit to drive, and society should accommodate them by means other than lowering safety standards).

“Adrenaline-style policing”: new policing methodology just dropped. What are the pros and cons of it versus, say, Peelian community policing?

I’m guessing it hasn’t been deemed noteworthy enough to add to Unicode alongside Shavian.

Ned Kelly, Squizzy Taylor, Chopper and this guy

Cats’ hearts are also on the right-hand side of their chests, the opposite to where humans’ are. Not sure if this correlates with handedness.

I imagine that not only do you get to borrow against your sons’ future incomes as doctors or prompt engineers, but against the wealth of your daughters’ expected husbands.

Should have called it the Epic Bacon Party or something

“Make Every Vagina A Clown Car”

Reminds me of an illustration explaining Thomas The Tank Engine as a centipede-like organism that nests in hollowed-out locomotives

Was “back then” between the world wars?

Correction: to the authoritarian right, at least one good Jew exists. His name’s Binyamin Netanyahu.