Yep, reading your other posts about it, this is definitely one circumstance when someone needs to pick up the damn phone. I was falsely limiting my thoughts on the subject to casual situations, not serious projects like the ones you work on.

Righto then, we agree on that one. It’s a shame Israel doesn’t.

Yeah, I am gonna play it. Sounds great. Played halo when it first came out but only a bit.

Indeed. If you have an espresso machine you just pull a shot or two and top it up with hot water instead of milk.

Fucken coffee, black, straight up.

Because you like coffee and don’t want to carry a thermos all day?

You think the person taking a pic deliberately lured the donkey/camel in there?

Sounds like a you problem.

Okay, fine, I accept the 1967 borders of Israel. Oh, is that not enough? Why not? Why didn’t they respect the borders that existed?

Sounds like Australian. Or strayn, as I would say to a fellow denizen of this beloved wonderhell.

Amen, sib. If there’s one with cunt in its name we’ll go there!

Ah, thankyou! As a lazy person not sure who my instance was blocking, I now know. Excellent. Better find an instance who doesn’t block any instances.

Jolly good. I mean, uh, that’s sick mate.

Do all this while being unfailingly polite and friendly, and the cops won’t even see you as a problem. Especially if white.

I bet those guys still have beer together and go shooting. Awesome.

Because when you’re a dictator and you want to oppress or attack a population, you get troops from nowhere near that location so that they will not be attacking their local community. Ideally you want hillbilly idiots from the arse end of nowhere so you can tell them anything you like about who they are supposed to beat the shit out of.

Idaho, eh? Yep, that’s about right.

Agreed. There’s no way AI would have generated the undisputed best stock photo model of all time:

Fuck off. Like you’ve never said you want to throttle someone without ever actually wanting to.

That’s fair. It’s a minor point of jargon, after all. I would assume that homelessness, as people talk about it where you are, generally does not include the couch-surfing or hotel room that you can’t afford for long, etc, so there’s no need for a term like sleeping rough.

Interesting! This is yet another example of me thinking a local peculiarity is a universal experience.

I have never seen any evidence of the assertion that tankies, ie fans of communist China and the old Soviet Union, are fond of Russia today. Can you point me to some evidence of this? I would love to see it, because it would obviously make no sense.