Neither gender nor sexuality is defined by appearance in general, but the straight white men do present themselves in a specific way.

You are right to say that this might not be the straight white men’s club, but you would be wrong to say that the straight white men’s club does not look like this.

Since they speak multiple languages, they probably spend quite a lot of time thinking about the subtle differences in meaning between words, so the precise meaning of the word “polyglot” no doubt matters quite a lot to them.

Horse deserves serious praise! How is 'e even gripping that pencil?

Promoting American industry by buying American getting airplanes as gifts from other countries.

They also said that they were cancelling lifetime contracts that hadn’t been used in 6 months. Hard to see how those could be sinking the company.

The bicycles are another thing they’re ignoring. If someone wanted to leave the area, why wouldn’t they go on their bicycle? It would be faster. Those people didn’t want to be in the road, and they wanted to get out of the road in enough of a hurry that they didn’t wheel their bicycles to the side.

They spend loads of time labelling people with “taking cover” without ever considering that people take cover when they are being fired on.

Control of militias matters, absolutely. Now tell me why those militias wouldn’t immediately depose their billionaire and take what wealth he has for themselves.

The tariffs are hurting America because American manufacturing - like all manufacturing around the world - depends on global supply chains. Do you think those container ships are still going to be doing business as usual after the collapse?

They may think that they’re being smart but, if society collapses, their money will be worth nothing. If anything, they have more to lose than anyone.

No - the nicks are on the end, similar to the plastic versions, so the thread is slipping along the clean edges.

I tried those as well, but gave up immediately. I just use little squares of card, with two nicks cut in one end. Wind the thread / floss around and tuck the loose end in the nick to hold it. Works much better. I also find it’s much quicker to unwind thread from - it doesn’t have those blobs on the corners, so you can just pull the thread to the side and it unwinds.

You don’t have to make it harder to drive. It’s a question of separating the cars from the bikes. Designate some streets for bikes and some for cars. That is better for both.

Where they cross, some junctions should prioritise cars and some bikes.

Also separate the pedestrians from the bikes on the same basis.

I think we have to thank people like this for demonstrating that losing your collection isn’t just a theoretical risk.

Well thank goodness that Microsoft isn’t pushing AI on us as hard as it can, via every channel that it can.

I cannot see how they could comply with both that and the GDPR, so the UK is asking Apple to choose between operating in the UK and operating in the 27 countries of the EU. Tough call.

He probably did it to troll people and spark outrage but that does not mean that he isn’t also a Nazi / fascist.

I don’t think that the safe harbour provision should apply when the person posting is the owner of the company.

I wasn’t suggesting that they do. I was commenting on the fact that they don’t even have the decency to pretend.

Of course. It’s just that they haven’t even come up with a plausible excuse.