Their business is being on show. Not having a black outfit in case of a relative dying or some period of national mourning would be a case of you-had-one-job.

Slay, queen 💅

Didn’t the KKK get their aesthetic sensibility from various medieval/early-modern religious paramilitary organisations like the Spanish Inquisition and the Holy Vehm?

Look at Stars ‘n Stripes Shrek there. Isn’t he just the happiest guy ever?

The compelling part is how recent and rapid the transformation has been. Only a few old people remember Dutch cities being choked with car traffic, but anyone who was in Paris 10 years ago will tell you that there were a lot more cars and fewer bikes. Which is proof that cities can be improved, and it’s not just Amsterdam/Copenhagen having been special forever.

Which should be effective in Europe (particularly former communist cities that embraced private cars as a signifier of freedom in the 90s), though will hit a wall of American Exceptionalism (“what works in Europe won’t work here”) once it crosses the Atlantic. Though hopefully the NYC congestion charge will serve as a positive example there.

The rich will have actual human teachers, but the poor will be trained by AI. The result will be language diverging into two Eloi/Morlock-style subpopulations.

Though given that people acquire language from their peers, and invent what they need, Poorish will have a bland, almost mechanical formal register, and a lot of incomprehensible-to-outsiders slang about actual life stuff.

Looks like someone emptied a bag of cats

In Stephen Harper-era Canada, they debated a denaturalisation law that would allow citizenship to be stripped from anyone who was entitled to another citizenship and who was convicted of a serious crime. Commentators pointed out that this could result in Canadian-born activists arrested for taking part in a protest in which property was damaged being deported to Israel if they had a Jewish grandparent.

If this principle is applied in Germany, it would be feasible for them to deport a German-born single citizen to Israel for calling Israel an apartheid state (i.e. IHRA-definition antisemitism).

Alas, Andrew is on his way back to a Mel Gibson-style rehabilitation. (If anything, the token ostracism he experienced, solely for the benefit of the cameras, was far less that Prince Harry did for marrying an American of the wrong colour.) Meanwhile, other rapists not only walk free but thrive.

The unpleasant realisation is that Giuffre served her purpose as a warning to other victims to stay silent.

And “fuck” has been used as slang for sexual intercourse since at least the 15th century. (Before that, it meant something like “to strike”.)

Apparently the lights in the letters L, M and A in the Islamabad Airport sign once went out, treating new arrivals to the news that it IS A BAD AIRPORT.

So it’s basically a parade float, only tactical-masculinity-themed?

That’ll develop a nice patina

If Putler had any sense, he’d spend a fraction of his military budget on making nicotine patches available for free to his orcs. That would pay for itself in no time.

Such a huddle of penguins is called a pengle

Now get a human to redraw this.