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I find it really weird that specific apartments are being targeted now ... that used to be only in movies!
(Not just Iran, I've seen this type of attack from all sides in this war)
And the building's still standing, lights on, people maybe going about their normal business ...

Next dialogue in Routledge Colloquial Slovene-students at a party. Two male students talk, one of them introduces his girlfriend. She only gets to repeat her name. The English-speaking voice who introduces chapters & grammar points is, of course, male.
Get with the 21st century, Routledge! #LangSky

OK. If only 30% of language learners are male*, why does every beginners' book I open centre a businessman? Sure, there's a woman colleague, she immediately introduces her husband. WHYYYYY? Looking at you Routledge Colloquial Slovene (published Nov 2025) #LangSky www.academia.edu/71518708/Why...

I've been a (junior) lawyer & an executive assistant at times in my life. Both those roles are paid to digest lots of information & then explain the relevant bits to someone senior. There used to be lots of those types of researcher/secretary type roles, I guess AI summaries now (badly) replace them

Amateur diplomat time: I think Australia's trying Schrödinger's support for Trump's war on Iran. We always go to war if USA asks. But Trump's *hated* here, so we're helping UAE instead. Makes sense, we've an FTA & Emirates is a key transport link. Trump & Aus media can't diss the PM for cowardice

I'm glad you're on a Lé Carre kick, me too! I'm part way through Agent Running in the Field, after recently re-reading Smiley's People and Karla's Choice by Harkaway

I mean: Israel does the same thing

Great nails, tho!

I partly agree, but it's also who you want gamers to be. I'm not a skilled gamer & bad onboarding in 2 recent NextFest Demos meant I nearly couldn't start the game. Not just me - others in the comments section! Do you want a broad, perhaps new-to-games audience or is gaming only for the entrenched?

If you were to feel like writing it, I would enjoy this argument extended in long essay form

Caring about people, warning allies etc ... that's not very manly or muscular tho, is it? That's a bit femme-coded, worrying about how others might feel ...
(Ugh)

There's still a bunch of non-fiction readers!
(I rather prefer it to fiction. At least if non-fiction makes me emotional, angry, worried etc it's a real thing I'm spending my emotional energy on. There's so much to worry about in the world now, I don't have energy to worry about fictional things.)

Sounds like the early days of cloud computing when they just put a cloud shape anywhere in the network that they didn't want to explain

It's rather pretty! It'd make a nice alternative to hound's tooth on a dress shirt or something

I think our leaders need to pick when & how to push back. I'm hoping for no Australian troops/ships/planes being used. I think the Foreign Minister saying the US & Israel can explain the legality was actually good - she's not preemptively covering up or helping explain (a departure from the usual)

The issue is: like all mobsters, the US is constantly whispering threats *cough* engaging diplomatically with countries like Australia. I learnt in law school how the US forced changes to our laws in the 90s. This is context about a 70s Prime Minister, if you'd like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged...

First Gulf War just as I started Uni

That's being far more careful in his phrasing than he usually is

My condolences, I'm aware that type of Christianity exists & it is dangerous

special section of HJ. When the Bund zur Förderung der Selbsthilfe der körperlich Behinderten e.V. (Association for the Strengthening of the Empowerment of People with Physical Impairments) was founded in 1919, it

It's a very interesting article.
I'd translate 'Bund zur Förderung der Selbsthilfe der körperlich Behinderten' as Association for the Promotion of Self-Help of physically Disabled People. I don't know if that matters, but promoting self-help feels different to strengthening empowerment

Don't most places do that (residence requirements)?

That's what Musk's hyperloop was all about.
I agree, American's views about busses are so weird to people living elsewhere in the world. In US movies and TV, I hear comments about busses and I'm just like whaaaaat?

Oh, is that why they've moved all the buttons around in the last week or 2? Ugh, it'll just get harder to do the basic things I need to do

My advice (worked in community TV) is have someone you really like sit behind the camera the 1st few times you record. They don't need to operate the camera. But you need to understand you are talking to loved ones *through* the camera, rather than thinking in abstract terms of 'audience' 'viewers'

People like companionship & the feeling someone is there with them, but their circumstances (WFH job, shiftwork, long commutes etc) mean it's hard to find other people who are available to hang out at that time

D'you reckon they just told AI to do the images, and they actually serve real food?

114 - honestly, I wish Steam had ways of categorising items on Wishlists ... some I won't buy but I still want to remember they exist

Thank you for including GOG!

I tried to figure out the meaning of liangjiahe ... I think the Wikipedia article needs some propaganda-minimising edits: "Xi Jinping's superhuman physical strength was demonstrated during his time in Liangjiahe"

My research interrupted by others' questions: a whole series of tabs open about Russian & Ukrainian oligarchs & military leaders, photos of Petra & the definition of pantomime

Did you know 20% of live performances per year in the UK are pantomime (according to Kitty Gurnos-Davies' PhD thesis)?