i don’t understand why one would even broadcast such a find. just keep the cash and keep mum.

what have they replaced the X button on their controllers with, then?

“you know all those hundreds of war crimes you’ve committed? yeah, this one may be one more.”

looks like it’s easy for their politicians to choose between Victor or Ban?

looks like the engineers misunderstood what “training mode” was supposed to do.

they would want to improve their track record after this, otherwise the public would just choo them up.

cheers mate.

what are these rules? i genuinely am not aware of them.

they’re proposing to lock same-sex partners together for 15 years? why not just let them live together by themselves – they save 15 years’ worth of taxpayer money per person!

see star trek TNG episode The Arsenal of Freedom for a more explicit visualisation of this ☝️ guy’s point.

man, wait till Putin hears this story. a lot of typhoons will be reported near the houses of russian dissidents.

“open the fridge door, HAL”

“i’m sorry, Dave. i’m afraid i can’t do that.”

it would deeply pain me that they’ve had to suffer staying in the closet for so long, but i would be happy that they are now free to be what they feel they need to be.

quite ironically in this context, san jose is named after st. joseph – he of the legal dad of jesus fame – who was once famously told there was no room at the inn and had to make do in a stable.

Tell me what sort of quality education you would get if your university class had increased by 2/3rd in size?

this is a valid point, but it’s not a point i see junior doctors striking for. it’s not like the quality of education that a country offers after they’ve graduated would weigh so heavily on their minds.

occam’s razor applies here. they are worried that there will suddenly be an influx of new doctors that will reduce their own earning capacity.

your point on expanding facilities first won’t help end the strike since it doesn’t address the core problem. the government should simply look to sneakily boil the frog here (and this is only because being the last in a list of doctor:patient ratio is never a good thing).

the secret life of walter mitty is actually a short story written in the 1930s with its plot based on the captivating power of maladaptive daydreams.

stiller’s film, fine though it was, wasn’t even hollywood’s first adaptation of the story.

sorry, OP, but to call a walter mitty story one about travelling the world to find oneself is to call star wars a movie about an interstellar truck driver and his huge dog.

it wouldnt, sure. and im not referring to those inconsistencies at all.

when it comes the dates specifically observed in the article though, as anyone who’s worked with Excel will attest, date calculation errors cannot be ruled out until they are explicitly, well, ruled out.

it very much is in the realm of possibility that all other data is accurate and date errors still manifest themselves.

what are the chances that it’s the default MS Excel date of 01/01/1900 in most cases?

the 942 year old guy could be a mangled date format? maybe someone whose date was to have been recorded as October 1981 and the 10 and 81 got stored as the year?

yeah I’d rule out MS Excel date errors before really buying the conclusions in thia article.

we need to change the parameters of success.

the current “world’s richest persons” list is actually the “world’s greediest persons” list. we need to all start calling it exactly that. we need to, as society, understand that having those levels of wealth is more a symptom of a sick and twisted mind rather than a consequence of “business acumen”.

the world’s richest persons list should be recalibrated to what percentage of one’s income has been given away in taxes and donations. think about it, if you can indulge in all your necessities, comforts, and luxuries on 10% of your income and still afford to give away the other 90%, are you not 9 times “richer” than you need to be?

separately, any company that turns an obscene profit has done so only by overcharging their customers. these companies should be vilified therefore, and not celebrated.

i don’t see how this is going to play out in the long term, though. the right wing fervour in the country has been stoked primarily by this “mosque x temple issue”, and modi’s party has actually ridden this horse through the democratic process over the last three decades to “success” – yes, make no mistake, democracy has not failed in india. the majority of voters are really that fervent in their championing of “hindutva”.

but with the denouement of this chapter, they will no longer have the temple as a north star. they will no longer have this major unifying factor. this, in a way, is terrifying simply because the go-to fallback of this government to rally their voters into line is aggression towards pakistan.

with both countries pointing nuclear warheads at each other, this could have severe repercussions for the region and the world at large.

i found it easier to quit smoking, frankly, than quit sugary soft drinks.

the journey was simple: i just refused to smoke the next cigarette. i kept the last half-open pack and the lighter within easy reach (i could have started again in 5 seconds, if i wanted) and did not throw any of my many backup stash packs away.

the first week was tough, and the smoking dreams persisted for about 15 months, but i no longer crave nicotine in any form.

as someone who’d smoked 8-12 cigs a day for over 20 years, it definitely wasn’t as hard to quit as people make it out to be (even though this was my fifth attempt to do so in a decade). seriously, quitting cola drinks has been the far tougher challenge for me.