In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”

In case you wanted to know what was lost.

I'm all for the cynicism, but supposedly that BMW badge is a fake.

But for real, don't let me dampen the corpo snark. Just thought some of you may like to know.

No it's definitely right. Especially useful to contextualize second Alaska. I'm not sure how big you thought second Alaska was, but maybe this will help give you some perspective.

If you’re curious, it was originally taken over by the Ministry of Defense during WW2 to train for the invasion of Europe.

Also this isn’t the first time it’s been reopened.

If you, like me, didn't know why the bike industry is in turmoil: Blowback from overproduction due to bike popularity during COVID

(according to the article)

Is there a word for “a thoughtless action by someone else so incidentally awful that you can’t help but wonder if it’s intentional”?

I mean, I don’t think they’re intentionally engineering it to delay EXACTLY the amount of time it takes for me to begin the process of clicking. That would take thoughtfulness, strategy, research, etc…… right?

…right?

Sasquatch.

I need the tongue

🤔

Well, he does make stuff up, but it’s not malicious. He’s just read 100 letters like this before, and also has a good idea of what you are hoping the letter says. Don’t worry though, if you call him out on it, he will apologize and try again.

We’ve all met that kid in first grade.

It was not a funny noise, I’m sure of it.

Impressive photo, I’m glad they finally found a way to project darkness.

half a pint of rum per day

woof

Cool cool toss this on the pile of things I hate that I can’t control

RIP Modi

To that end, I also feel like the shots are a lot more stationary than modern CGI sequences. We’re really able to ground with the visual information being shown, and engage more effectively because the film lets most of the motion happen within the frame rather than moving the frame itself.

Just my own two cents.

So what you’re saying is to brace for some kinda insane nonsense soon. Got it.