The original post said southern Europe, so Italy, Spain, Greece, etc. In these places many businesses close around lunchtime and reopen later in the afternoon. So typical opening hours may look like 8am-12:30pm, 3:30pm-7pm. That's not all places (restaurants or large grocery stores don't follow that format, obviously), but many shops do it.

Probably the best thing I've learned in life is to disassociate actions from results. Stop wanting so much, especially things the world can't possibly promise. Do things because they feel right to you, not because you expect something out of it. In this way you will never be disappointed.

In this particular scenario, are you confessing your feelings because you want them to know, or because you want them to like you back? If it's the former, go for it and then move on with your life. If it's the latter, prepare to be miserable over and over forever.

I thought it was obvious from the video that he nicked his ear on the secret service person's belt buckle on the way down when they were piling onto him? It explains the paltry amount of blood that appears only after he's down, not to mention the optimal healing time. No bullet did that.

I don't believe it was staged. Everything that came after, yes, lies upon lies, exploiting the situation to its maximum potential, absolutely. But a real rifle was fired, a real bystander was killed, and Trump's secret service really was incompetent enough to let it happen. No need to invent anything when the obvious truth is damning enough.

Will always be funny to me that lobsters are such an expensive delicacy at fine dining restaurants when they started out as food for extremely poor people in coastal communities. In the old days the general public viewed eating them as you would view eating a rat today.

My understanding is that's deliberate. The Wacowskis were done with The Matrix, the original trilogy (+ Animatrix) was the complete package. But the powers that be demanded more to milk the franchise, and when the Wacowskis tried to push back, the higher-ups said they would do it with or without them. So the Wacowskis are deliberately sabotaging the sequels, and good on em.

How is this a surprise to anyone? They came to replace cable.

No, you still don't get it.

THEY CAME TO REPLACE CABLE.

Okay, here's what's actually happening since nobody seems to get the picture.

The Arctic has been melting in recent years, opening up areas that were never accessible before for resource extraction (oil, minerals). This is also why nobody is doing shit about global warming, because the opportunity for profit is too huge.

Canada has claimed ownership over the Arctic and its resources. Greenland/Denmark has claimed ownership as well. America has claimed these areas are in international waters and not ownable by anybody, so it's a free for all. But they know that's a weak position.

If USA takes Greenland, they take the Arctic. That's it, that's all.

Bonus: it's a distraction from Trump's name being all over the Epstein files. Although I'm not sure why he cares so much; his supporters certainly don't. Like he said, he could rape a child in the middle of 5th avenue and he wouldn't lose any votes.

I think I'm the only one who remembers when Trudeau and Trump and Nieto signed that NAFTA agreement and Trump screwed up by signing in the wrong place and Trudeau covered for him to save him embarrassment. A very classy move that went completely unnoticed by a classless thug.

Wouldn't work. Bring a fake bomb strapped to your chest to a town hall and you don't get a lighter sentence just because it wasn't a real bomb. Pretend terrorism is treated the same as real terrorism.

Terrible, terrible suggestion, to the point of arousing suspicion that you may be from one of those bot farms made to antagonize and sow discord.

The kind of people who voted the Trump administration into power (regular voters, I mean, not the propagandists and billionaire class) are not travellers. Travel and bigotry are mutually exclusive (generally speaking, of course exceptions do exist). People who have curiosity about the wider world and interest in other cultures are overwhelmingly leftist. Even to suggest attacking them is extremely counter productive and would only cause more Americans to stay home and devolve into conservatives. Americans abroad already know their country is a shitshow and deserve sympathy, not aggression.

Black Mirror version of the Twilight Zone classic, "Time Enough At Last."

Problem with Bandcamp is they got bought out, first by Epic Games and then by Songtradr, and each time it's gone through enshittification. Bandcamp Fridays used to be a weekly thing but got changed to (EDIT: semi-monthly) with little announcement, and then half their staff got laid off to pad the bottom line. Even with all that they're better than the alternatives, but they're still on a decaying trajectory.

Nah, they don't release a toxin, at least not in the sense of "self-defense" that is usually meant with that phrase. After death they rot very quickly, so they do become toxic, I guess that's similar enough. My dad cooked lobsters often and he always stuck a paring knife in a very specific spot in the head right before boiling, I assume this information is about to become much more widespread to comply with these new laws.

Teeth falling out is a vanity dream, common among people who worry a LOT about their looks. Actors, models, government officials who need a makeup studio at the Pentagon, etc.

I remember first hearing these anecdotes during The Apprentice years, long before he entered politics. But with what we know now about Trump, it's pretty safe to assume they were completely made up. What we know for sure for sure is that there is exactly zero evidence to support those claims. So urban legends at best.

For your consideration: It's somewhat well known the reason Trump eats so much fast food hamburger is because he has a fear of being assassinated by poison (due to a lifetime of screwing people over and socializing with the wrong sort). Do you really think that kind of paranoia would agree to allow a mentally unstable kid with a rifle anywhere near him? That doesn't make sense to me.

I'd walk that for pleasure, but not for work. Time for you to get a bike.

Ah, I see. I didn't realize the water was squirted out of a plastic flower on the attacker's lapel.

But joking aside, no court would ever interpret the act "on the face of it." Rotten fruit, pie in the face, fake blood, you're right, those have lots of historical precedent as symbolic acts of protest. "Mystery fluid flung at someone's face" has historical precedent too, but not so symbolic.

I understand what you're trying to say, but you're not thinking like a judge. If you were a judge, would you really want an article in a law book to describe you as the one who thought it was a good idea to greenlight the throwing of mysterious fluids at politicians' faces as an act of protest?

But but but... Bluesky pwomised they would join the fediverse someday! A super duper pinky pwomise!

Pro: All the world's knowledge and information in the palm of your hand.

Con: Set up like a disorganized library, requiring a basic foundation of intelligence, education, wisdom, and skepticism to know how to find and then parse good info from bad.

Pro: Has facilitated sharing of vital knowledge between experts and laymen.

Con: Has allowed idiots, statistically few and far between scattered across the world, to unionize.