@sh76 said
You mean like a school dress code?

<gasp>

Oh, the Humanity!

A school dress code should be limited to "clothes should cover genitals and torso, clothes may not cover face or hands, clothes shall not be decorated with indecent or unpleasant images or words, shoes are required for safety's sake, and For Eff's Sake, You Teenage Pigs, Thou Shalt Wash". Anything much more is mere English public school bullying and a sop to classism.

@mott-the-hoople said
"There was no such thing as Palestinians'

Golda Meir

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/12/opinion/l-what-golda-meir-said-about-palestinians-766493.html

Yes, the first thing a Nazi does is to deny the identity of the othered. And then comes the burning alive.

@moonbus said
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/21/opinions/jared-kushner-gaza-israel-palestine-property-bergen/index.html


Yeah, Jared is looking to build massive hotels there, if he can convince Deutsche Bank to finance them ... where have we heard that before, I wonder.

In Saudi Arabia and the USA, two great allies of Osama Bin Laden - as was Israel.

@averagejoe1 said
False statement in purchase of firearm. and lied to the dealer.
Possession of firearm while addicted to controlled substance
Filing false return (2 counts)
Tax Evasioin
Failure to pay (4 counts)
Failure to File (2 counts)

Yet, his lawyers fight to have the dase tossed out. But if he did this, do you woke libs have some justificationto just let him walk?
A simple question, with only one logical answer, yet we are all set for laughable responses.

Where's that lap top, Joe? Where, after all these years, is that lap top?

(Oh, and: isn't it a crime punishable by twenty years imprisonment to flaunt photographs of the penis of an under-aged boy in public? Not Hunter's crime, Joe. Your Marge's.)

@pettytalk said
To put an end to this thread, I'm waiting to post the notable death of Death itself, and hopefully before I die.

Are you looking for it to happen in the Donne way, or in the Alhazred way?

@suzianne said
I'm an only child, yet I just don't understand the concept of "loneliness". I always have something filling up my time and someone to talk to. It often seems to me that it's the result of being unimaginative and boring.

You really are great at victim blaming, aren't you?

@drewnogal said
There’s a new Sainsbury opened near me where there isn’t a single human manned checkout. It’s all self serve.

Is that even legal? I'd boycott it, anyway.

@mchill said
I agree regarding the traditional diagrams, the shadow idea in novel, but unnecessary.

Back in the Speccy days, there were already chess programs which had the option of displaying the game as a 3D board. With a 256x176 pixel resolution, this option was rarely worth it; but even on modern screens, IMAO it isn't. In fact, the only program I can think of where it was worth it was Battle Chess, and that not for chess reasons.

Which is interesting, because OTB I really do not like those flat travel sets very much. Maybe it's because moving your head can give you a new perspective on the position?

@sh76 said

People who love the USA - mainly Southern Fried Prosperity Gospelite MAGAhatters - also love to bleat about it on Boomerbook.

People who are satisfied living in Europe are not as crass.

@ponderable said
@David-Burton
Conventional wisdom: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Mechanical Engineer: If it ain’t broke, consider adding more features.

Banker: if it ain't broke, charge it money for not being broke. And if it is, charge it money for being broke.

Laurent de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant.

@david-burton said
he is in whine mode all the time.

Who, helicopter Harry? Or Mystic Megh?