He did some stupid shit like, IIRC, retweeted an old post where he said now that he supported Trump, the left would use dirty tricks to smear him, than added a new statement mocking them for not having a more creative dirty trick than calling him Hitler.

He said nothing else that I saw, most likely because he’s a Nazi.

All of them have decent wiki pages. These are basically in chronological order and while not necessarily a direct line of descent show roughly how cetaceans went about returning to the water. The first few were mostly found as fossils in India and Pakistan.

1. Large racoon-size. Thought to be very comfortable in water but didn’t necessarily live there most of the time.
2. Wolf sized. This one probably actually hunted in the water.
3. Seal sized-ish. Likely lived mostly in the water like a hippo or mammalian alligator. Eyes and nostrils have moved up to allow breathing and looking around above the waterline while staying mostly submerged.
4. Similar, but even more fully adapted to life in the water, and while it likely came ashore to give birth, it would have been awkward an walker.
5. Even further specialized, and up to 400-600kg. Artistic representations look like a nightmare fuel combination of alligator and manatee.
6. Fully aquatic now, and the size of a very small orca. Widely distributed fossils in what were shallow seas.
7. A small “macroraptorial” sperm whale, basically filling the niche currently occupied by orcas, hunting large marine vertebrates.

IIRC for Single vs Double the difference is they will enforce the “form of a question” part. In either round, they will let you mangle the pronunciation as long as you don’t insert or omit phonemes beyond what could reasonably be the result of only having read the word.

So “Alexander Dumb-ass” would be fine, though you’d likely get some gentle chiding, or maybe even have to refilm the question (“portions of the show not affecting the outside have been edited”) afterwards, but if you were expanding NASA and left the ‘s’ off the end of “Aeronautics,” it would be wrong.

I live less than ten minutes from a decent enough multiplex, but I only go to one or two movies a year, when it’s a project I am excited for and the spectacle of the thing makes the giant screen, giant speakers, and properly darkened viewing room outweigh all the incredible advantages of watching at home.

I still don’t get any popcorn though. If I’m into the movie enough to deal with the… ugh… theater, I don’t need to bother with overpriced concessions.

What the hell are you talking about? That’s clearly a zebra.

Jax Beach isn’t bad at all, but it’s not world famous for a reason. It’s the “Eric Foreman’s basement” of beaches. :-)

I haven’t been back to town in a while, and anyway I grew up south of Duval County and west of the river, so there was more fresh water and Saint Augustine Beach in my childhood, but I’m fond of Jax Beach too.

Love all of these. You’ve captured the timeless “meh” of Jax Beach in an ethereal, nicely poignant way. Did you happen to catch a shot of Rexy the Dino mascot on the way out on Beach Blvd, or did you come down A1A?

The only thing I’ll say there is that with burgers you can sometimes get out over your skis and take a tumble. A lot of sit-down places think some giant watery meatball is a good burger. While photogenic, it is not necessarily good, and a short-order smashed patty or (smashed patties) generally taste a lot better and are easier to eat.

The best burgers are almost certainly not fast food burgers, but the worst burgers aren’t either.

I had to look it up too, but it was Victoria. She was great as a celebrity wrangler to make sure they understood the vibe and would roll with the weirdness. I’m not entirely sure we need a Victoria just yet either, LOL.

The !askmeanything@lemmy.ca would be good, as would !asklemmy@lemmy.world or !casualconversation@lemm.ee. Also, I am going to gently push back on the idea that you have to make a new community because Reddit has a similar one. An AMA is not philosophically different from the posts on any of several other text-based-engagement communities. If AMA posts start to crowd out the “original” content, then a new /c is warranted, but we just fragmented everything after the APIpocalypse, and discoverability is still a pain requiring steps that shouldn’t be necessary if people just want to communicate.

I like the Knives Out movies. I like Rian Johnson. I like Daniel Craig. I love Benoit Blanc as a character.

The movie’s going to be in theaters exactly long enough to qualify it for awards, and I would rather watch a light murder mystery romp at home anyway.

So he didn’t abandon family, and I don’t know that he planned never to return to a life of luxury, and one can certainly criticize American adventurism in the Muslim world, even early 2000s Afghanistan, but Pat Tillman would fit this broader idea, and he paid for it. His parents were a lawyer and a teacher in San Jose, California. He was an unheralded college (American) football player who improved enough in his first few years in the NFL that he went from barely making the pro ranks to being thought of as a valuable contributor who’d have a long and (by any normal human standards) very lucrative career. In early 2002, his team offered him a contract extension worth several million dollars, but he turned it down to enlist as a soldier the US Army after 9/11.

He was known to be outspoken, thoughtful, well-read, and assertively non-religious. While he thought there was a moral case to be made for fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda, he is reported to have called the Iraq War “fucking illegal.” Still, for better or worse he did remain loyal to his commitments and deployed to Iraq. After, he finally went to Afghanistan. He was killed in a friendly fire incident that was covered up at every level, from his platoon-mates burning his uniform, body-armor, and personal journal, to the Pentagon claiming he was killed by enemy fire and coming up with an entire alternative scenario for how he died.

Even once the friendly fire was known, his legacy was being whitewashed to protect the legitimacy of the war and military recruiting, and his family had to fight not to have him remembered as a generic rah-rah “Patriot,” but as a complicated man who thought about bigger issues and had a personal moral code not tied to generic notions of 'Murica, Jesus, and Apple Pie.

The dabbling in Nazism makes him a lot less fun.

As somebody else mentioned, historically 99% of voting was done on election day. Opening the polling places earlier than that was the exception, and the terminology has simply stuck as the practice has expanded. Additionally, many jurisdictions have something materially different about voting early, whether different hours, looser location rules (I used to be able to early vote at any polling place in my county, but not now… thanks, Texas), etc., so it’s useful to refer to distinguish them somehow.

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So I take it to mean the poll workers or someone else actually asked them to leave? If so, that’s something. This is absolutely shitty, politicking at the polling place at best, and I agree with the others: you show up to a political event in the south wearing a white sheet, then pointy hood or not, we all know what you’re evoking.

As others have said, as a “front page” with voting and real people in the comments, I like it. It’s like hanging out at the one locals’ coffee shop in a small hippie college town somewhere. You don’t get to talk about everything you might like, and there’s a definite vibe, but the people are generally polite, informed, and surprisingly cosmopolitan. That’s where Lemmy really shines in relation to reddit, the quality and accessibility of conversation on general interest and shitpost threads. Even assuming they’re not overrun with bots, and they likely are, the biggest subreddits are just noise and fake internet points, or at best a passing conversation with a stranger on a bus.

I still go to reddit for (American) football and mechanical keyboards, but for the former I don’t even bother participating, because we’ve got a fun handful of folks here (to extend the coffee shop analogy, imagine a table in the back with a few professors who fondly remember going to a big football school 20 years ago). For the latter I can get the occasional fix here, and I seek that out, but I like seeing the pretty aluminum rectangles and sharing the little bit I’ve learned with newbies. To the extent there’s still a baby splashing around in the bathwater, I’d prefer not to throw it out, but I’m clear-eyed about reddit’s trajectory, and “home” is here.

Seems like it was pretty analogous, though it seems like there was a ritual value to hieroglyphics and the older forms of the language that’s a few steps beyond even what ecclesiastical Latin is today. I would say there would be a certain sense that something could only have top-tier religious import if it was set down in Medut Netjeru (“the Words of the Gods”). I thought this article by an Egyptologist was pretty interesting.

Nothing quite so explicit as that I think, though obviously preserving something is always the intent when carving shit into stone.

Ptolemaic Egypt was a culture populated by Greek and Egyptian speakers. Of those who were literate, many would only be able to read Demotic or Greek, but meanwhile there is a 2500 year history (at THAT time. Egypt is ridiculously old) of Hieroglyphics being the “official” way to write things down, and the scribal and priestly classes would be part of the cultural elites. Combine that with the Ptolemies attempting to situate themselves as both continuing Alexander’s legacy and being fully Egyptian, and there will be a place for all three scripts. Engraving laws onto stones and placing them in prominent public spaces would have been a pretty common way to “publish” them in a way that’s meant to be durable and secure. See the Code of Hammurabi and Draco’s code for just a couple of examples.

The fact that Alexandria was cosmopolitan and had a sophisticated regime ruled by elites who were foreign but invested in the local traditions created a situation where this was done often enough for some to survive, several in fact, although the Rosetta Stone was the first found/identified.

LOL, all in good fun. Except for the barbecue thing. It’s fine, but it’s just slightly less delicious Texas style, LOL.

Oh, and NFL refs’ love affair with Mahomes and the Chiefs.

Most cities do something fun with their kitschy rotating restaurant. Not Kansas City. No sir, they’re good practical midwesterners, and by god a surplus Air Traffic Control tower from the third biggest airport in the Dakotas will be fine! Plop it on a pre-fab concrete hotel and get on with your day.

Also, their barbecue is overrated.