There was the story of the recent immigrant who picked up road rage before learning English and, when cut off in traffic, would reply with things like “up shut your ass, mother bitch”

It’s arguable that the only difference between that and the French pronunciation is the accent, and that, unless one holds that one has to convincingly affect a French accent when saying French loanwords, “crah-saun” would be correct. (Though pronouncing the trailing ‘t’ may sound a bit gauche.)

Not even that. The only computer you’ll be able to buy will effectively be an Alexa speaker through which you tell whichever AI service you subscribe to what you want, and it’ll sometimes get it right enough. Nothing will work properly, but soon people will forget that there once was deterministic computing, that you could own a machine that would predictably follow instructions and, if the instructions are correct, get reliable results. To them, computers must have always been a vaguely sucky form of magic, and oldtimers’ tales of mouse menus, command lines and dumb machines that could only do what they were instructed to sound like some kind of Amish horse-and-buggy shit.

How else would you pronounce it? Is there a state between being aware of croissants and knowing how the word is pronounced where the accepted pronunciation is “kroy-sent” or something?

And then there’s the 13th-century simpleton John Fuckbythenavel

That’s just the next thing you do when praying the gay away doesn’t work.

A masterful ambiguity. “Look like Japan” could mean either “be a monocultural ethnostate” or “be non-white”, depending on the audience

The relationship between Russians and sunflowers appears to be one of give and take

Of voters who died since 2016, disproportionately many voted leave, as that vote skewed older. They have, of course, been replaced by young voters, though those were 6-17 during the referendum, and overwhelmingly don’t have a historic grudge against the “vino-drinking garlic-eaters” or whatever, but if anything resent having fewer opportunities ahead of them. And while a few remain voters have switched sides (presumably out of what’s-done-is-done resignation/fear of further instability rather than a faith in Britain’s glorious destiny), they’re greatly outnumbered by leavers who would like to take their choice back.

Man who walks on his hands will have crack up

if they just kept their heads down, stayed in the middle of the herd and moved in a naturally sheeplike way, they could have gotten away with it. Which makes one wonder how many make it through on this route.

If it’s a shift from a labour-intensive agrarian economy, that’s to be expected. A similar thing happened in Iceland, and due to the small scale of the country, it is very noticeable. Some 2/3 of the population live in the greater capital area, and beyond that, the countryside is dotted with abandoned farmsteads slowly falling apart.

That’s not entirely fair. DogeCoin was, by all accounts, created by fairly decent people as a low-stakes joke, before Space Trump settled on it as his ticket to being popular and liked and, after spending some pocket change on a Shiba Inu for display, barged in and skunked it with his musk.

Surely the descendants of mobbed-up casino owners expropriated by Castro will have something to say about that. It’s not unlikely that they will have sympathetic ears in the Whitehouse as well.

There’ll probably be several to choose from on AliExpress at that price point.

Ireland is sounding more and more based

Optometrist: can you read the bottom line, Mr. Kowalski?

Mr. Kowalski: Read that? That’s my wife’s maiden name.

It’s only “traditional” since post-WW2 white flight

They may need to remind Agent Krasnov of the pee tape.

lol