It’s probably related to this possibly apocryphal story:

One shell, however, wasn’t quite empty. Inside the casing was “a carefully rolled piece of paper” written in Czech, he noted. “This is all we can do for you now,” the message read.

And here is an AskHistorians Reddit link with some additional context.

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Someday I hope you find somebody who loves you as much as tank-manufacturers love mid-air action shots.

Yup. Jerry is mid as a GM, building competitive teams with baffling gaps that limit their ceiling (often due to bizarre and counterproductive negotiations with their higher priced players), but he never gets better, whereas most teams eventually fire GMs who are mid.

I think if he were truly terrible at building rosters he might have faced reality, but being “one piece away” makes him think he’s finally going to make people forget that Jimmy Johnson built those 90s teams and Jerry’s main contribution was signing checks in the last era before proper free agency.

It may not get better either. Apparently Steven Jones is Bidwell/Brown cheap because he’s spent his adult life with the Cowboys being by far the family’s most valuable asset.

No clue about Howard Johnson’s, but Howard Stern is a longstanding but steadily declining American shock jock and former TV host.

Also, this is the prior Enterprise, from WW2.

I am a heathen, so usually NO-Key, but in culinary circles people who want to nod in the general direction of proper Italian will say something closer to knee-YO-key. Mid-word vowel sounds in American English (all English?) can be extremely variable, though

If you want a proper IPA transcription, this video seems about right.

Columbus was indeed a bastard by contemporary standards:

One man caught stealing corn had his nose and ears cut off, was placed in shackles and was then auctioned off as a slave. A woman who dared to suggest that Columbus was of lowly birth was… stripped naked and paraded around the colony on the back of a mule.

It got bad enough that he was sent back in chains (though he was released) and stripped of all his titles (permanently). There’s some thought that the report was a bit of a hit piece by his political enemies, but it seems like he, with his equally shitty brother, opened himself up by being such an asshole.

You don’t have to be an apologist for the Spanish regime or think they were enlightened somehow to understand that he was particularly shitty. As the historian in the article says, “The monarchs wanted someone who did not give them problems. Columbus did not solve problems, he created them.”

I would just about bet the texture is similar, but maybe more uniform. I think the goal is to make a goopy sweet and tart syrup reduction that’s vaguely reminiscent of what a proper fruit pie filling would be like, and then construct a cobbler the usual way.

Shout out to Star City, on either Apple TV or the high seas. It’s alt-history set after Gagarin, but his presence looms large, and we might get a flashback eventually. It also shows a similar Soviet tour for the fictional first woman on the moon.

Primaries are primaries. People walk back comments made during them all the time, and to a certain extent they're the time to push your party where you think it needs to be.

I will be interested in what happens for the general. Can't do much of importance if you pout and let the perfect be the enemy of the good (or the good be the enemy of the kinda okay), and thereby get evil elected.

It really was a great platformer. Detailed sprites for the platform, and the pogo-cane mechanic was actually pretty inspired. I still remember the music from the moon level.

There are two options: lose them someday, or never have them in the first place.

Both are sad. Only one is unacceptable.

RIP Juneau. I'm so sorry for your loss.

I mean, that’s a better choice than “fuck my waiter, specifically and today, while not affecting his bosses’ bottom line at all.”

But here's the thing, it ain't the owners' problem either. They're winning. The whole reason they do this is to externalize labor costs and do ad hoc market segmentation, except it's based on customers kinda being dicks. When you don't tip in the US, you have sided with the owners and have said to the server, "you are worth minimum wage."

Agitate the rest of the day. Tip at mealtime.

This one is even better than Tolkien's response to a German publisher in 1938, asking for proof of his ancestry, which may or may not have been sent, but tellingly there was no official translation of The Hobbit into German until 1957.

Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject—which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

Don't fuck with posh and emotionally repressed Oxbridge motherfuckers when they realize they are finally on the right side of history. 🤣

This is a big deal, but just a reminder that this is the District (trial) court, so the next step would be the Circuit Court of Appeals, followed by an appeal to the Supreme Court. There may be some intriguing injunctions that come out of this, but we're years away from a final disposition.

For the curious, this one came out of the DC Circuit, informally known to be the most technically and administratively savvy circuit, as it deals with a LOT of nitty gritty stuff coming out of Federal agencies.

Woman: So when you're not swiping, what do you do?

Men 1-7: It sounds weird, but I'm really into WAR! ... Christoph Waltz was sooo creepy as Hans Landa! You have to see it! ... so each week both uncredentialled "historians" talk about their favorite times when thousands of men stabbed or shot each other! ... and then the good guy took his gun-knife and started prying teeth and slicing ears off the dead guys... literally an entire generation of men was decimated or psychologically damaged... But [Game of Thrones/The Walking Dead/Band of Brothers] is my go-to. What do you watch?

Woman: Mostly cartoons.

More seriously, I'd guess that many, maybe even most people have some level of morbid fascination with the type of violent, high stakes scenarios that people they identify with have been subject to. It's just kind of weird not to acknowledge that a lot of basically well-adjusted men (I flatter myself that I'm in that group) are into stuff that's objectively terrifying.

How about the cop who decided to pop a (right leaning apparently!) Australian reporter from close range with a rubber bullet, just for shits and giggles?