Das Mädchen seht am See und es sieht ihn.

The girl stands at the lake and it sees him.

In German, a lake is masculine and all diminutives are neuter, and that includes Mädchen (girl), which is a diminutive of the obsolete word “Magd” (a cognate of “maid”).

Second hand ThinkPads are absolutely brilliant value.

garlic and basil in the same pot. They all three

Wait, are you counting garlic, basil and the pot, or how are you getting to three?

Wait, you didn’t know this before getting into it? That’s the first thing I ever heard about it, and I’ve never owned any 40K anything.

Lenses maybe, camera bodies, nah.

“apt install <program>” is just so much nicer than running some weird installer.

Republicans: “We have to drop DEI and start hiring based on merit.”

Also Republicans: fill departments with people hired based on no merit whatever.

He has no further territorial demands of Europe.

In the 80s and 90s, America was massively involved in destabilising Central America and the Middle East.

Iran-Contra / Nicaragua, Panama, first Gulf war, Afghanistan…

The case isn’t finished yet, I see, so maybe sanity can yet prevail. So far it’s just a preliminary injunction.

“The question presented here is not whether the viewpoints of plaintiff, or those of the school officials, are ‘correct’ as a matter of religious faith or political or social belief. Nor is it whether the materials should be part of the kindergarten curriculum for other students,” Saylor, a George W. Bush appointee, explained. “Instead, this case presents a narrow question: whether these specific defendants have provided the required notice and opportunity to review materials that this specific plaintiff may find objectionable, so that he may opt his child out of classroom instruction that violates his religious beliefs.”

In granting Alan L.’s request for a preliminary injunction, which will remain in place while the case proceeds, Saylor ordered the school and district to “make reasonable efforts to ensure that J.L. is not taught or otherwise exposed to the content of the Identified Books, whether in the classroom or any other school setting” and to ensure J.L. receives “reasonable age-appropriate alternative instruction.”

Lawyers for Lexington Public Schools, however, said the district looks forward to “aggressively defending against these claims.” In a statement, attorneys Douglas I. Louison and Alexandra M. Gill noted the district’s existing religious-based opt-out program and that the Supreme Court’s Mahmoud decision “made it clear that depicting the mere existence of potentially-offensive values or lifestyles is not enough to warrant an opt-out, and that it is the messaging associated with those potentially-offensive materials that determines whether an opt-out is warranted.”

“In this case, the materials are not associated with any LGBTQ±focused curriculum or paired instruction, nor was the student even exposed to the two books at issue,” Louison and Gill added, according to the Herald.

Louison and Gill also noted the burden opt-out demands like Alan L.’s place on schools.

“This is not like a student with a peanut allergy, where the implementation of an accommodation to protect the student is reasonably clear,” they wrote. “Schools are burdened enough without having to scour the pages of a storybook for potentially gay-appearing characters. At what point, for instance, is a character’s haircut too short to presume they are a woman? Are two men sitting together at a restaurant presumed to be gay, or might they just be friends? There are innumerable scenarios like these, and schools are now being forced to make near-impossible judgments.”

It happened to me quite a few times before I realised what was going on. You click the time and then click “go”. It takes less than a second.

If he felt that his life was in danger from a car, shooting at it wouldn’t reduce the danger. The only thing a pedestrian armed with a pistol can do to avoid getting run over by a car within short range is to get out of its way.

Sure, but there is double jeopardy, and with the FBI freezing local law enforcement out of the investigation, they could easily toss him a softball.

Don’t download this song!

Don’t download this song.

Even Lars Ulrich knows it’s wrong…

Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3’s from file sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA

Du bist so 1 Pimmel.

There’s no such thing as a “defensive shot” at a moving vehicle. Your bullet isn’t going to stop a car. All it does is to change a guided vehicle into an unguided vehicle.

That’s why US law enforcement agencies have policies that one should only shoot at someone in a moving vehicle if they would be an imminent danger to others if allowed to flee.

My previous phone was a Xiaomi on which I installed LineageOS. I was very happy with it, but my GF’s son had a very very old phone, so I changed it after only 3 years and replaced it with another Xiaomi. I’m deeply unhappy this time because they’ve made it practically impossible to unlock the bootloader without using dodgy unverified tools. It’s only a year old and now I’m replacing it with a second hand Pixel.

Before the first Xiaomi, I had a OnePlus that I kept for six years.

Not all of us are racist. Consider Breyten Breytenbach and Bram Fischer and Max du Preez and Ingrid Jonker. But yeah, some Afrikaners are virulently racist.