This is fun for me to read, because I’ve stopped getting books from Amazon, since they can’t seem to ship them undamaged. Bookdepository doesn’t do the no-questions-asked returns that Amazon does, but I find the very occasional re-buy (even if that costs me more) to be a lot less mentally taxing than to do three or…

I'm usually more of a cat person, but we are of one soul, blanket-dog.

They also used the word “disruptive”, which to me is a huge red flag. These are silicon valley style assholes, ready to “disrupt” a market they know nothing about, dealing in a technological field they don`t understand. This reminds me of the Lockheed Martin fusion effort a few years back.

Dr. Dre, problematic as he may be, is much closer to a real PhD than David Duke.

I’ll have you know that his totally legit doctoral thesis (which I have read because someone made fun of it on the internet), contains venn-like diagrams that do nothing to get his “point” across, and that it isn’t filled with things that are just naively true, which is what I would honestly expect, but instead mainly…

Well, I’m a foreigner, but... I’m not surprised that a professional swindler does well in the debates. We’ve seen that before, no? The way I see it, there are a couple good candidates, a few I’m less impressed with than some other people seem to be, and one that might be, if not nearly so personally unlikable as…

Undiagnosed mental illness, or actual thing, I don’t know (Leaning towards undiagnosed mental illness. Except... for the months long “event” it later transpired coincided exactly with the upstairs neighbor dropping dead and being found by his daughter. In any event, I haven’t been able to find that persistent/constant…

American people: We are confident we have elected the most unqualified person possible!

American people: We are confident we have elected the most unqualified person possible!

So, a bit of a hot take, maybe, but here it goes; I’ve hated Ruby Rose in everything I’ve seen her in. Untill “The Meg”. Which is awful. Yes, even worse than you’ve heard. Nono, even worse. Even worse than you’re right now thinking it could possibly be. But. Ruby Rose is good in it. She doesn’t do very much, but what…

Erdogan doesn’t want fighter jets (with pilots that could be persuaded to join the next coup d’etat) that his missile defence system will be unable to target. American weapon systems exported to friendly nations are filled with black box systems that are replaced as whole units rather than be serviced on site. I very…

Tis is how it’s done in Norway; I get an electronic letter (not an email, a message to my electronic letterbox) that I have until April 30. to log in to the government portal online and check that my pre filled tax form is correct. If it is, I sign and submit using the same electronic ID solution I use with my bank.…

I don’t know if you agree with my assessment, but at least in Norwegian politics, it seems like the position on the right is “we’re gonna full-throatedly support our guy ( it’s nearly always a guy) until that becomes an untenable position, and then he’s out”, whereas on the left it’s more “we’re going to publicly, but…

That picture looks like he’s in the middle of explaining; “no, actually it’s ephebophile”.

Congratulations on the world cup. Well deserved to the clearly best team in the competition.

1: I’m a foreigner, so I wouldn't want to try to influence anyone's election or anything

It’s either; Life on Mars or Abiogenic Petroleum.

John Bolton and his mustache apparently believe they were put on this earth to wage war with Iran, but I wonder about the rest of these goons. A war with Iran is unwinnable. The Iranians I have met, while not fans of the regime, are deeply in love with their country, their culture and their people. Iran will fight to…

“Among the most annoying buzzwords to ever grace Silicon Valley, I regret to inform you that blockchain is more than just a marketing ploy. It’s real, it can be genuinely useful and — according to Facebook’s announced plans, at least — Libra is utilizing blockchain in a way that in theory makes some real sense. I say…

From the Culture Editor at Jezebel comes this shit. Not one of these people make me stop and think, “Hm, are they good?” (No, not even Marky Mark, although I’ll admit he could be better, if he got over himself a little bit). Someone else here commented that this is just every third name from the top 100 popular actors…