It’s interesting who we call terrorists and who we don’t. If an Arab nation or organization had done this it would have been called a terrorist attack. Israel does it and people defend it.

Terrorist is a meaningless scare word for “people we don’t like”.

He’s the original changeling

Most of the Olympic shooters use fancy gear like special eyepieces and what not. This guy Yusef Dikec from Turkiye rolled up without all that, stuck one hand in his pocket, shot with both eyes open and took silver along with his partner Sevval Tarhan.

If something can be misused for political leverage, it will be.

Just cut to the chase and provide the education. If everyone has access to robust and adequate education then you don’t need the test.

My childhood home phone number is more burned into my memory than my current phone number.

I love militant descriptivists

Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”

Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

I love militant descriptivists

WE ASK THE QUESTIONS!

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.

Roses are red. Violets are blue. I ignored my instructions to write a poem about cashews.

Glue is not a topping. Pineapples are not glue. Therefore pineapples are not not a topping.

It’s a variant of Soup Time: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soup-time

Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.

sometimes with a better PR team

Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.

Same. I like dark stories as much as the next person, but it hit way too close to home with real world politics for me.

Etymologically, the name is usually said to derive from the oblique case of a Proto-West Germanic root: *gīsl “hostage, pledge”

Well that’s some nominative irony

Seven of Nine, Tertiary adjunct of uni(tary) matrix Zero One