In Norway, people lose custody of their children for a single slap, and in Sweden, Italian politicians get thrown in jail for the same. https://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/vacationing-italian-man-jailed-in-sweden-for-slapping-his-son-for-public-tantrum

Tihs is an aggressively reasonable take. Well done, have a star! 🌟

This is the owniest own I've ever seen.

I this... a threat? Is there more to this ransom note I'm not seeing?

I almost wrote you should just get a Surface Pro, but then I remembered the difference between a SP and an iPad Pro is that, unlike Panos Panay, Jony Ive knows what he’s doing (I have both a SP4 and an iPad Pro 9.7).

I’ve had a Mansion of Nightmares that I dreamed for ~20 years. It was odd in that it was alone in the dark forest, on a hill but simultaneously all alone on a prairie(which doesn’t happen here in Norway). It also had no first floor; immediately behind the front door is the stairs to the second floor. The first dream…

::sigh::

Vardøger are fairly common here in Norway, especially in the north. Hearing the sound of grandfather putting the coffee on 15 minutes before he returns from the fishing trip, that sort of thing. Some people are said to have so reliable vardøger that you can use it; i.e. if you hear the sound of grandfather hanging up…

I was on the bus on the way home from work, this smelly alcoholic (about 50, but also about 6'6", this guy made me at 6'3" feel tiny) was molesting this young woman, touching her hair, telling her how sexy she was, and so on. It went on for a couple of minutes, while I was working up my courage. What if he knifes me?…

You cant keep getting people to “invest” in your company if you release your game; this will keep being “close to release” indefinitely, like fusion has been “30 years away” since the ‘50s.

Jason Isaacs minus Kate-Mara-in-Fant4stic-wig, I hope. I also love gay Dumbledore. I agree that it adds to the character, and I don’t think the books contradict it, and it is a totally valid reading, I think. It still isn’t quite at the level of hinted-at, however. I guess I would accept clear-but-not-explicitly-state…

The whole “Dumbledore is totally gay” is essentially J.K. Rowling head canon.

“Young man, your father and I go away for two fucking days, and one of your loser friends fucking Kavanaughed right smack in the middle of my goddamn Persian rug??!?”

George Bernard Shaw had some wise words about this, words I am very happy Trump has never read;

Just listened to ‘Deja Vu’; can confirm, I’m totally bewitched. In fact, I’m gonna put it on again.

No love for Die Farbe?

Their entire “love story” is a textbook case of grooming. If her claims of abuse by Mia are true, far from discrediting the idea that he groomed Soon-Yi, it would have made her a more likely target. Abusers will often pose as “saviors” to get troubled children to trust them. He’s scum.

spending time with her when she’s 17. So if it wasn’t parental, then what was it?

My first thought on reading Soon Yi’s account was “Woody’s relationship with you started way earlier than your relationship with him!”.  My second thought was, “Ew, that’s called grooming”. Additionally, I’m not saying a bad word about Mia Farrow, or giving an opinion about the story about adoptee work camp, but two…

Why would they lie about how many people died, you orange ding dong? Also; “raising Billions”? You’re The Government -you don’t raise money, you use tax money to solve your constituent’s problems. This isn’t one of your vanity-bankruptcy-property-development-schemes, where you “raise” money by tricking investors, this…