OTOH, this is Newsweek. Take it with a grain of salt, pending confirmation from a more credible source.

It’s true. There’s a woman who runs a guinea pig rental service for people one of whose guinea pigs died who don’t want to adopt a new one for life.

As Jamie Zawinski put it, it’s like a non-profit animal shelter setting up a sideline selling kitten meat to satisfy demands for hockey-stick growth. If somebody castigates them for it, they can point out that the demand for kitten deli slices didn’t going to go away, and if they didn’t sell them, someone else would step in and do it less humanely.

The immovable object of Stolen Valor meets the irresistible force of It’s OK If You’re A Conservative

John Gruber (yes, the Apple loyalist) pointed out that the Japanese law specifically exempts game consoles, and suggested the US retaliating by passing a law requiring third-party app stores on the PlayStation and Switch. Which probably won’t happen, but would be entertaining if it did.

They could call it the Dendy 360 or something

In Europe, that’s July and/or August, depending on the country

The United Airlines who, coincidentally, are planning to start showing personalised ads on seatback screens?

That may be harder with the boundary between them, the Republican Party and much of the judiciary being so porous. This designation relies largely on the MTGs of today not going to bat for an obscure Swedish far-right group.

Given that they have a native, non-Electron iOS version, it’s a shame that they haven’t built a desktop macOS version using mostly the same code. (To make it look like a proper Mac app, they’d need different UI code, though even without that, they could build a version that looks like the iPad version with no changes, and it would look no worse than the Electron web-app UI and run an order of magnitude more efficiently.)

But can you use nuclear weapons against an electric sharknado?

If they point out your Jewishness whilst complaining about you ruining their toilet, though, that is a bit sketchy.

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Thailand comes from adding the Germanic -land suffix to the demonym Thai, a common pattern for non-Indo-European places. There’s also Swaziland and Somaliland (though there is also a Somalia).

People from Iceland are only called Icelandic because “Icish” would sound a bit silly.

Maybe when they have some time, Ukraine can sell Finland’s farmers some tractor modifications to use inertial navigation or other jamming-resilient techniques they will have honed to perfection.

Is she planning to retire soon, and thus not concerned about AIPAC money?

Needs a few earlier movements, including Art Deco/jazz moderne, Bauhaus and midcentury modern/googie

Nonetheless, they’ll probably get away with it, because other than among a handful of autistic furries, there’s no demand for non-algorithmic, non-enshittified social networks.

The celebrities and brand-builders who use Instagram to grow their brand aren’t switching to Pixelfed or Misskey because, without algorithms boosting them, there’s no clout to be had. Artists, indie bands, vintage clothing sellers and other self-marketers are staying put for similar reasons. (Basically, if your goal is “self-promote at scale and hope to make ends meet” rather than “find a handful of weird friends with the same kind of damage as you”, the fediverse is worse than useless: it’s lost time and effort with nothing to show for it.) Your normie friends, who want to keep up with their favourite pop stars and tattoo artists and have a busy schedule without an extra 15 minutes a day for a social network few people use, aren’t going to add Pixelfed to their dopamine loops.

When you’re Winnie The Pooh, everything looks like a pot of honey