Any amount of cards feels like a lot when the hands holding them are tiny.

Oh that would be so funny if the USA announces removing restrictions on Russian oil because of this, only for China to immediately sign a deal with Russia to take the lot.

Damn, I thought this said pensioner games. I was hoping it meant old-school style games were making a comeback.

They should call it “Corps Laver” so it sounds all fancy/French for the girls, and sounds like corpse and lava for the manly men.

He was Prime Minister when he lost his seat, not the opposition leader.

“Neuralink in the head”

pump and dumb

Perfect typo… I think

Not even 3 months

“We’ve been trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty”

Interesting point. Can the US military just fly anyone they like into their overseas bases in Europe etc, then just exit the base into the hosting country, having skipped immigration controls?

Suddenly and all over the place

not uncommon for fathers to die before their children.

Isn’t this usually the case?

or to investment in a place where there’s no rule of law.

Like USA?

Fsck, I didn’t know who Pete Rose was and thought you meant Trump was strong arming them into inducting Trump himself. And while it made me go WTF, it didn’t surprise me.

Re Five Eyes, they should stop helping the USA on that front immediately, as any info given to them will be used to crush internal dissent.

I guess by staying in they can derail it being useful to anybody else, veto new members, etc.

Maybe voting should be by policy. Each party lists, say, their top 8 policy points as a simple summary sentence each (has to be more concrete than just an aspiration like “protect our economy”). The combined points are randomised and printed on the voting paper. Voter marks all the policies they agree with. Each policy agreed with counts as a vote for that party (so each party can get more than one vote per person). The party with most points agreed with by the voters wins. If the winning party goes back on or does anything in contradiction to any of the policies they listed, the media has something solid to grill them on, and maybe could be some sort of trigger for a new election.

Checked exceptions require a function to declare the exceptions it can throw. The caller function must then catch and handle the exception, or the exception would bubble up a level, in which case the caller must also include that exception among the exceptions it declares that it can throw. I don’t know if C++ does this, but Java/C# do. It sounds exactly like Rust’s system except with different syntax.

My last job was Windows desktop, so I installed vmware and ran Linux in fullscreen mode.

This post made me think it would be good if there was a community where people could post about “stuff to do”, eg join a local amateur soccer team, here is how leagues work, here is how you find a club to play for, can anyone play, are there min/max ages on teams, are teams split by gender, what is the social scene like, etc etc. Kind of like an AMA but focussed on things people can do if they need an activity/hobby/sport/place-to-meet-new-friends. There’s probably heaps of scenes I don’t even know about, or don’t know how to get involved in.