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What was that famous warning someone allegedly gave Napoleon before the battle of Waterloo? "Man proposes and God deposes"? Something like that.

I wonder how many times this has happened, and if it's limited to just FedEx or if everyone is doing it. Because, let's face it, if you're a driver for any of these companies, the only way you could possibly be penalized for theft is if the employer just believes all reports of it without...

You know, the really great thing about the Alex Jones ruling isn't what he's going to owe people. Because really, if you go to your grave owing people way more than you've ever had and they're left holding the bag, who's really the winner? No, the great thing is the precedent it sets: that it is...

Cool. And only half of Europe will have to freeze to death for it to happen. But at least we can blame bad people for that.

Virtually any Republican who could conceivably emerge as 2024's front-runner has a better chance of winning than Trump himself does, unless he also runs as a spoiler. Even if the field includes Trump clones like MTG, they'll just lose the primary when everyone who likes them just votes for the...

That's an awfully Spanish-sounding name you got there, Fuentes. Be a real shame if the party that elected its last president on a platform of hating Mexicans came for you next.

That might just be the least surprising thing I've read here ever.

I was going to ask if this is the record for the shortest term of office any British Prime Minister has ever had, but I'm getting the weirdest feeling of deja vu. Is it just because I recently asked about the shortest gap between a new monarch and a new Prime Minister, or is this not even the...

All media outlets are clickbait garbage at least some of the time at this point. Sometimes the more consistently clickbait-y ones like the Daily Beast or Buzzfeed manage to let actual journalism squeak through that puts even the mainstream newspapers to shame, and the under-30s jump on it being...

Wait, wait, 50.6% of the vote means 80.3% of the seats? Did y'all yet your own Electoral College when I wasn't looking?

Well yeah. It's definitely one of those rules that's not only extremely open to abuse, it seems to have no practical use except to be abused.

Yeah, also I don't know if I'd be on board with a head of state's resignation meaning the entire legislature has to prematurely end their terms of office. Emergency elections would make perfect sense in a country like the US where the head of state is elected separately from everyone else—and we...

See, this is how headlines about awful people ought to be written. Betcha you'd never catch the writer of that article using a phrase like "police-involved shooting".

I had to click that link just to make sure it wasn't an old story from, like, 2018 or something because I'm positive this isn't the first time he's said this exact thing.

Wait, that's the official premise? How have I been alive this long without knowing that?

Is that what Canada does in a situation like this? I'm actually curious which countries with parliamentary systems do.

No, it's definitely worse. At least Ben didn't just admit to being a literal pedophile and accuse the entire rest of the world of being them too in the same breath.

My answer: Create a new government department dedicated to digital technology, and require every tech company to make their source code available for that department to review. Even Microsoft lets outsiders look at their source code, to a limited degree, to provide second opinions how secure it...

No, no. He's not going anywhere. He's just going to be the guy who owns the planet and the rights to all its resources, up to and including the colonists who actually get sent there to do the work because, guess what, laws against slavery also don't apply in space! But getting back on topic, I...

Also, trying to appeal to the non-gamers they courted with the Wii was never going to work because, contrary to their intentions, most of those people hadn't actually on to buy many games for it in the first place. A lot of them only used it to play Wii Sports and maybe one or two other casual...