American consumers pay it to the importer, who pays it to the US government, who funnel directly into the pockets of Trump’s cronies.

The EU might sell a little less over it, but it probably means that a lot of “To: USA” labels are getting swapped out for “To: China”…

It’s mostly used in an international political context. In the UN, it’s what everyone uses, so why not?

Generally, ambassadors and leaders of UN missions get the form of address too, so I guess it makes sense, even if it’s a bit archaic.

In the UN, everyone is addressed like that, including the heads of missions. I wouldn’t be surprised if the presidents of the European Commission and European Council also get addressed like this.

Oh, that’s never how I saw it. I love them specifically because they’re something you caused yourself and only to yourself. But you can make yourself a sanctuary with nothing but rounded corners, and life there for the rest of your life.

To avoid the thing you did to yourself, you can never leave the prison you must build for yourself.

I love something like the hounds of tindalos.

Not tentacled monsters, but still strange monsters that have very strict limits, yet never give up.

Stroopwafel een eind op vent!

If anyone asks me what fragile masculinity looks like, this will be my example for the month.

There once was a lady from Venus
Whose body was shaped like penis
The crew was dismayed
When contact was made
To learn of her family and genus

I just want to point out that every single heavily downvoted, idiotic pro-AI reply on this post is from a .ml user (with one programming.dev thrown in).

I wonder which way the causation flows.

The colon-space-subscript bothers me Immensely

That’s probably way cheaper. Smart thinking!

If you want them to go away, they’ll need a road.

MUCH older. Shakespeare made a ton of contemporary references, and was referenced in turn by others during his days. Those were memes.

Medieval writers included strong biblical references, and we have some “entertainment” that is purportedly extremely funny and popular, that’s basically the medieval equivalent of Loss.

Brainrot videos are the first one I truly, truly don’t get.

I just discovered there are now over 9000 SCPs. Last time I checked, there were three hundred something.

Akshully, most medieval towns wouldn’t see all that many horses. They had a lot of humans though, and human shit smells SO much worse.

Paying a ton of money for the priviledge of having to spend even more money on a non-product nobody wants to pay for. Sound business strategy there!

For lent-related purposes, I presume? Same as beavers.

Is that a chalkboard globe? I’m gonna need one for LARP.

EDIT: Damn, this is an old picture, or they don’t sell it here :(

We haven’t yet found a case where believing something literally makes it true, contrary to what religion and politics would have you think, so the answer is a resolute “can’t say”