For some reason the solution is restart the laptop with its actual power chord unplugged.

Microsoft creates weird issues no one else can even imagine. At this point I’m no longer pissed, I’m just curious how they did it.

In Oliver Twist, the workhouses abuse the children in their care by not giving them enough food. Now we’ve somehow crossed even that line.

*holomodor

US: moves Bishop to Rome

UK: moves King to Canada

Wonder what US will do next.

‘I meant,’ said Ipslore bitterly, ‘what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?’

Death thought about it.

CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

Torties best represent this constant yin-yang.

Ehh, that’s the one humanising thing about him.

Taking out just Turkmenistan here for instance completely blunts this and Uzbekistan while possibly to bypass by a long routing around via Kazakhstan is also pretty important.

I’m guessing these countries will be making bank on tolls on these routes. Even a pro-US government would not be very happy if asked to shut them down.

All’s quiet on the well front.

Lol no. But he could, for example, declare it a sin to not help migrants. He can’t enforce it, but it would be funny.

Ironically, global warming could green the Sahara.

Weak. That’s what the cats in my house do.

they’ll accept a ceasefire now if they get the four oblasts in their entirety

Why are they askiing for this? Wouldn’t a Ukraine with even fewer Russian speakers be even more Russophobic? I thought they wanted all of Ukraine to stay neutral, but this is just asking for problems down the line.

Communism is really the most minimal demand

What is nearest, reasonable, the middle term.

Whoever is opposed to it is not someone who thinks otherwise

It is someone who does not think or who thinks only about himself.

The whole idea behind the formation of the EU, which the US helped push for, was to squash this rivalry

But does the US want to maintain this system now? Perhaps they see the EU as a competitor and want it to gridlock, or even fragment.

friendly fire

That works if you do it once. If you keep doing it you lose credibility.

What I understand is that the consciousness requirement was placed so that people could verify that the animal was healthy and had not been ill-treated. Stunning is allowed after examination and before slaughter. Meat certified by the UK Halal Food Authority, for example, is from stunned animals.

CW: death of animal

There are a few requirements for meat to be halal, such as killing humanely (usually by a single stroke of a sharp knife), and making sure the animal is healthy and has not been ill-treated. Some say that this improves the taste, as frightened animals produce lactic acid, which sours and hardens the meat.

Didn’t the catboy thing come from anime?