Do they mean “Firefox can get your location data to pass on to pages you give permission to, who we cannot guarantee won’t share it with advertisers” or “Firefox reserves the right to do a deal to monetise the tantalising firehose of location data coming from your device unless you specifically opt out”?

When I was a teen, I thought that ska was short for “skatepunk”

That’s a ripoff. I will offer to refrain from releasing less-than-superhuman AI for a mere $999M

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They could lean into sarcasm:“don’t forget to tip your landlord”. Or just Koalang it, coming up with an ever-shifting system of allegorical codewords (“green Mario” could probably last for a week or so before the river crabs catch on).

Does he have a large adult failson he could parachute into the position?

Ah yes, Chesterton’s Balcony

Musk is neither a Tesla nor an Edison; he is a Barnum.

I wonder how hard it would be to make some minimal placeholder resources/assets, sufficient to build the game and for it to run, even if it won’t look good or be particularly playable.

TIL Hitler only became a Nazi in 1940 or so. Before then, he was presumably just a robust conservative classical liberal.

I’m guessing they don’t actually have any offices, assets or staff in Sweden.

Signal don’t block users from countries where they are banned, and in fact have options to make bypassing firewalls easier. OTOH, it’s a lot less likely that they might be arrested and extradited to Iran or China while on holiday.

You can instantly get whatever you want, only it’s made from 100% technical debt

She ceased to be a British citizen upon her coronation (the monarch is specifically not a citizen), so she wouldn’t have been entitled to one.

If a monarch hypothetically fled or was deposed, they would legally be stateless.

They actually sued another artist some years ago who jokingly credited a track of silence to Cage but didn’t actually pay royalties (apparently joking on credits is a no-no).

What proportion of their GDP is that?

People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.

I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

The main meal being the evening meal is largely an artefact of the Industrial Revolution, when large parts of the population spent most of the day at a workplace away from home. In agrarian societies, the main meal, i.e. dinner, being in the middle of the day was more common, and the smaller evening meal was referred to as supper.

* Yiddish has entered the conversation

Had the world settled on German, someone might be making a similar argument that the world dodged a bullet by choosing a language with phonetic orthography and words composed of logical building blocks rather than a mess like English