Quick reminder that if we’re hearing it from Bannon, there’s an agenda being pushed, and it’ll be in Trump’s best interests. Nice to hear about infighting, though.

All well and good in theory, but after bribing a barmaid called “Anon” for a lead, my group have now been directed to talk to a halfling in the corner of the tavern by the name of “Hamas”.

It wasn’t just other cultural groups that had other gods – proto-Judaism was polytheistic.

Unrelated to hoist as in to lift, despite similarities

It’s exactly the same word, as I understand it – in this sense, thrown into the air rather than lifted into the air. We’ve started using the past participle as the present tense, and created “hoisted” to fill the gap, and the violent/uncontrolled sense of the word is now archaic.

Incredibly brave people!

Speaking from ignorance, I think this is something like:

To know nothing is perilous; to know little, more so.

Although she appears to be very young, she was born into a long-lived race of elves and has lived for over a thousand years.

Oh, that old chestnut.

This is the dumbest comment I’ve read all day but I’ve been chuckling about it for a good couple of minutes.

they want the ability it provides to die.

Terminal Server licensing will be bringing them in a tidy amount of money from on-prem enterprises, but it’s true that Windows App has a heavy focus on Azure and will definitely be aiming to push people in that direction - it can’t even connect to remote Windows PCs.

Got to be able to place a phone call. And scan the surface for enemy boats.

I used to run r/etymology, so digging deeper and being able to wrinkle my nose, furrow my brow, and out-pedantize a pedant is my specialty! And indeed, also learn something in the process.

This is true, but as it happens, the general conclusion (per the OED) is that syllabus isn’t an authentic Latin word at all, it’s a corruption or misreading of Greek sittybos as sillybus (spelling varies). So even though it’s modelled after the Latin, it’s already plural if the surmise is correct.

This is a silly argument, but:

at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction

At the risk of being cliché, I recommend the original books by Bernard Cornwell!

There’s still a ton of historical media too. From my past three months of watching:

• Gladiator II
• John Adams
• Taboo
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Beneath Hill 60
• When Evil Lurks
• Life is Beautiful
• A Haunting in Venice
• Wolf Hall
• The Terror

Just because she likes to see the giggle doesn’t mean she thinks any less of the other women, she could even hold her in very high regard.

Misogyny aside, there’s nothing in this sentence that is gender-specific other than the pronouns. We should recognize it and call it out regardless.

A good friend is like a chronometer – very reliable, well balanced, and generally powered by a nickel-steel spring.

I like the suggestion that the witch hadn’t cast a spell before this point because they thought it was a social faux-pas. Confrontation anxiety strikes again.

You don’t need to pretend Musk has German ancestry to criticize them. His father is a violent bigot who supports Russian imperialism and his maternal grandfather was a racist, fascist Southern African politician.

Now here’s Concentric Lamb with the weather.