This meme is my favourite of 2026 so far. Makes me laugh every time.

This is an amount that would cover university tuition for all American students for a year.

I don’t mind when it links to wiki but I actually follow the link to verify. It totally made up a pardon from the king of England to some guy yesterday

Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.

They already had the previous example of the sale of indulgences within the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Even American colonial revolutionaries were offered pardons by King George III to stop fighting.

Commenter below cites the fact that the expectation was that the congress would step in if popular sentiment was outraged by this sort of thing, but this state of affairs was foreseeable.

They ended up with a powerful executive even though they believed previous kings had too much power. e.g. “His Excellency” George Washington refused the title of King.

Also of note is that there were relatively few voters and they were privileged and generally well educated and informed members of the public. White men with land.

The bespoke short-lived solutions angle is an interesting one, to be sure.

I wonder how many orgs will back themselves into a corner thinking their product will be short lived but it ends up hanging out for a while, as you mentioned.

Honestly this feels like an extension of this Agile/Scrum madness we’ve been dealing with since the mid-2000’s. Instead of the next quarter, we’re only building things with a view of the next two weeks.

Now it’s measured in hours, and even then we can give a prompt to an LLM and have a half working thing to throw away after it converts that PDF to a CSV.

I worry about the craftsmanship leaving this field. Engineers used to push back and for good reason.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_5oYU-IsU

Deep in the outback, there are more stars than you can imagine. The soil is so red.

Driving along the highway, seeing a single pair of headlights on the horizon for twenty minutes, combined with the dust and bug reflections in your headlights, and the sheer remoteness of it all, does things with your mind.

This thread is full of people imagining that he committed war crimes in Iraq, but it’s also very likely that he once had discipline, the threat of consequences, formal training in weapons, use of force, the rules of engagement, and the concept of restraint.

It’s far likelier IMO that when he joined law enforcement, and particularly ICE, he felt that he could be less restrained.

It shits me to tears seeing Bush’s reputation being rehabilitated. He was and is a fascist. In November 2004 I decided to leave America when I could. Happily living in a more decent society now.

Perhaps you are the wellest of all

Build quality for Dell is down over the past few years

Also box/irukandji jellyfish, stonefish, brown snakes, eshays, and ice addicted bogans

Me too. I break out to google with a !g when necessary, which is maybe 1/3 of the time depending on the subject (maps, technical)

I’d say let’s start reaction to reaction videos, but Bo Burnham already covered that ground

Here in Australia the police saying this would get a stern talking to unless they were in NSW

Can I get a recommendation for a better ad-free browser on iPhone?

Dawg I’m fat too. We’re not a monolith.

It’s good to promote health. Light pressure applied with empathy can be a good thing.

I think this is correct answer. Maybe afraid of losing her job, definitely insecure.

Also I think the answer is to push back. Call out the anger and refuse to deal with it until she calms down.