A small correction.

It’s a good reason to expect it to be harder to implement effective gun control than it was to ban Quaaludes, but not a good reason not to try anyway.

You don’t just get to summarise a quote that details all the patience and determination needed to do a particular thing as saying it’s “not hard” 🙄

I expect his reports went through a system that gives the moderators little or no opportunity to check out who the reporter is... which is as it should be, just not with the same outcome to the report. If Twitter really intend to keep up this appalling approach to harassment reported by Joe Public though, they are…

This is really all there is to it. This is a job that has a very low requirement in terms of specialist skill, and yet there are a number of basic competencies that any candidate needs to have or they would quickly become a problem on the job. A bachelor’s is one way of demonstrating those competencies to a certain…

You don’t know me!

The Greenwich Meridian doesn’t run east, it runs south. The report says that the direction of motion of the pole is heading east - i.e. it used to be heading in a more westerly direction.

If you could measure a distance equivalent to 7cm/year on your steel ball, and set up a lunar system around it, then sure you would be able measure it. Sure, that is a very small amount as far as we can appreciate it, but you don’t need to set up a faulty fourth-grade science project to prove that.

Here’s a tip for free: if it is morning, your breakfast is not impromptu. It was prompted by the huge nuclear fireball that just glided over the horizon, and it happens every single day.

Seriously. Out of all the circumstances where the grief is so bad that someone wants one of these ghoulish photos done, “she choked on a banana” sounds like it should be in the shallow end. One wonders how the dude even makes a dime.

JE is definitely deliberately trolling. I’m guessing her Jezebel career is not long for this world.

Have you discovered the truth about who bought those books yet? 🙄

Of course the UK has provisions for deportation and they ought in some cases to be less harsh. The point is that somebody granted DACA in the US would meet all the criteria the UK require and more (including being present in the country at the time of application), so the idea that the woman Cruz was talking to (or…

Except he is wrong there. The UK’s equivalent to DACA allows you indefinite leave to remain after 7 years (compared to 9 years for DACA) and extends to the child’s parents on the same terms.

Just dropping in to point out that it’s not even true about England. Our laws are even more permissive than DACA’s.

Um, no, YOU are making it reductive and non-reflexive. It was a passing comment in support of a particular thesis not related to the respective claims of Africans and non-Africans. It is not the duty of every user of the spoken word to caveat every second remark with “I mean this just in one sense, please don’t…

Wait... Medicaid is “platinum plated” now?

There is no relief of the obligations of a contract without the termination of the contract. Sure, there could be some provisions that cover breach of contract and designate some of the obligations as conditional on there not being such a breach, but that’s not the case here. You breach the contract, you reach an…

See, that is an argument that I can get behind. The path they’re claiming to have got a viable product is beyond improbable, and the test by which they’re purporting to demonstrate it is worse than useless. I just find it too simplistic to say that it’s a categorical technical impossibility. Breakthroughs in…

“Not with the technology we have” is not much of a counterpoint to a purportedly novel technology. And applying the limitations on something that has to fit in a multifunction device that fits in your pocket to something that has to fit in a car is absurd.