I’m fairly sure Catullus wrote poetry with similar phrases in it more than a thousand years earlier

I’m sure Farage will order the demolition of the wind turbines on day one of his Musk-ordained premiership

For TV, cost has something to do with it. Though beyond that, as far as storytelling goes, it’s easier to imagine first contact with a species that looks like roughly human-sized bipedal cat-lizards or something than, say, a swarm of telepathic jellyfish, some kind of fungal rhizome or Douglas Adams’ sentient shade of blue.

Not to rationalise his alleged actions, though given how likely it is that he has had goth women with various kinds of kinks and personality disorders throwing themselves at him for several decades, it’s conceivable that he started as a perfectly decent guy and gradually got debauched by circumstance, gradually becoming a monster in imperceptible steps.

Taller, more aggressively-styled SUVs with poorer visibility is the best we can do

He believes that, as one of the Owners, it’s his prerogative to appoint the viceroys who will rule on his behalf. And that he owns enough of Germany to veto any reluctance they might have of having another Nazi government.

So, a more righteous than average Mastodon instance?

Except that, as we’re frantically building out alternatives to gas, our economically stressed voters will be way pickings for the numerous Russian-backed populist parties, so we need to hold off until we can tell the Qataris to go jump with impunity.

As somebody once put it, politics is the art of saying “nice doggy” until you can find a rock

MM/DD/YYYY would annoy me wherever it’s from, because it’s wilfully perverse.

The thing is that Electron apps don’t even look good compared to native apps. They’re slow and janky and, once you’ve seen a few of them, your impression is “the company didn’t care enough to build a native app”. In that sense, an Electron webpage in an app has the same connotations as AI artwork on a Substack essay: it looks slick if you’ve never seen one before, but cheap and shoddy if you know what it is.

I think they’re meant to look just Jewish enough to appeal to antisemitic stereotypes about finance.

“Hand-written assembly” is not more powerful than any other Turing-complete language (including Perl and Python), just more painfully slow and prone to human error to write. (Perhaps if you have a special case requiring speed (such as the processing being done in a tight loop in a financial trading app and the results needing to beat rival trading systems by milliseconds or something equally esoteric), it’d make sense, but in that case, a modern compiler (for, say, C/C++/Rust or similar) would yield comparable results, and if a lot is riding on those milliseconds, you’d eschew code and build a FPGA that pulls the data out of memory buffers in hardware or similar.)

So these days, the only use case for hand-writing assembly language (other than low-level OS/firmware programming or compiler development) is performative Feats Of Strength, where the challenge is the point. And in that case, you’d be trying to do something heroically challenging, like writing an Atari 2600 demake of Baldur’s Gate or something.