The “gunned” is a good rhetorical effect.

The general Bluesky mottos is block early, block often. I’m ok with that.

Quick note, petroleum sanctions on Iran from the US are not lifted - the only thing permitted is to buy the barrels now at sea, i.e., from the dark fleet. Same deal with Russia.

Fuck with Paul at your peril. He’ll write a song that will stay in the top 10 for weeks and weeks and the top 100 for years about your sorry ass (sorry John, you’re still my favorite though).

You’ll hear it everywhere you go….

From the article:

New Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider told TechCrunch, “We’ve launched a lot of things inside Bluesky — Starter Packs and custom feeds, and all those kinds of things. This is a standalone product, and it’s the first one that’s built by Jay’s new team.” [emphasis added]

@[email protected] is talking about Surface Detail, while I was talking about the Hydrogen Sonata.

No this was the simulation of the entire group that was about to subsume as to how they would react to finding out their very important religious document was actually an alien experiment. I think the mind was the Mistake Not… .

One of the Minds in Ian M Banks’ last novel, The Hydrogen Sonata, faces and addresses exactly this problem. Much is at stake, so it’s a meaningful discussion.

Yes but eventually no. I’m in a kind of unique position on this since I immigrated from the States to Europe decades ago and live/lived in popular tourist destinations for Americans.

So, yeah, groups of Americans especially, and some individuals, speak way above the local normative level, football games excluded.

However, over the last four or five years many N American families have moved here, five now in my neighborhood alone. And I see these families all around my city and other places. By and large, they have (perhaps unconsciously?) adopted normative levels of speaking. It’s especially notable in the younger kids.

So, I think people when they visit some place retain their own ways of doing things, because why not they will only be in the country they are visiting a short while. On the other hand, folks who move to another country seem to naturally start to fit in after a while.

I saw that one too, was very cool.