It turns out they, or many of them anyway, were done with Word.

Ben-Gvir himself should be tried and punished for his participation in the conspiracy to murder Yizhak Rabin.

Nope. It very much did not catch on. We call a message received by email “un mail” and then to avoid overloading we have" le courier". Best, mark

French moves just as quickly. The Académie Française exists to make sure the French you learn in school doesn’t keep up.

Duck them.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who is bothered by this shift away from software being a noun.

Someday we’ll have Gate gate, or maybe even another scandal at the Watergate complex, so Watergate gate.

I can’t wait!

Just be sure to make it look like an accident.

How would that even work? Would Estonia have to station its own (NATO) forces in Finland?

Would Lithuania and Latvia have to do basic training in Poland?

It’s obviously not serious.

Fatal motor vehicle accidents are just over 865000 times more common than commercial air travel accidents, but until dash cams we never got to see them, so people think it can’t happen to them, when it’s slightly worse than even odds.

If we limited drivers permits to the 8% or so of drivers who are actually competent we’d solve a lot of problems in several domains.

I self-selected as ineligible to drive years ago, and I’ve never regretted it. Of course I had to move away from my home country and learn a new language, but those are the shakes.

Living in a french-speaking country it’s hard to forget.

The reaction at the time was partly bemusement though. We don’t call them “french” anyway, because they’re from Belgium.

The Mastodon project put a lot of energy into a high quality plushy.