Nixon died in 1994, so there’s that.

What makes you say the proposal was unpopular among First Nations people? The few pre-referendum polls of indigenous Australians seemed to indicate that the majority were in favour.

i have parties

One gallon = 4.55 litres, if you were wondering whether your bladder might be able to hold it.

Gotta say, this meme is pretty relatable - I’m sure most of us have encountered kids whose entire answer to every problem is “communism”.

So glad someone’s finally come up with a rebuttal.

I was wondering why the researchers hadn’t released any pictures of this newly discovered language, but on careful re-reading I realise it was transcribed in cunieform… so to me it would be totally indistinguishable from any other Hittite tablet.

I like to take shrs

I like Hadoop.

This is the sanest Spectator article I’ve ever read.

Constitution says you have to be born in the USA to be Captain America.

The ham and pineapple work fine; the problem is pineapple and cheese.

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Or, they’ve found a viable way to disguise donated long-range missiles so they can be used to strike back at Russia without implicating the country that provided them.

You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”

I actually find myself wondering this a lot. Mastodon doesn’t allow people to add comments to things they’re reposting, so you’re left guessing as to why they elected to insert something from an unfamiliar account into your timeline.

Mastodon is also short on tools for discovering interesting new posts and accounts that aren’t already on your radar. In this regard I agree that it’s behind the times. Threads handles this much better, giving you a classic chronological feed of people you’re following plus an algorithmic feed that shows you things that are popular with people like you.

Do you both build creatures?

i think the stick makes YOU a better driver.

It doesn’t make me a better driver, it’s a continual distraction. I recently switched from a manual to an automatic car and I now have far more available headspace to pay attention to the world around me.

You’ve obviously never seen me fumbling through my changes and stalling on every corner.

Octal refers to base eight. If we followed the convention it would be the eighth-final.

We always say “Zee Zee Top” - I think there’s a sort of unspoken acceptance that they’ve earnt it. But you sometimes hear people say “Jay-Zed”, normally as a bit of gentle mockery.