And royals, like race horses, are not bred for intelligence.

Yeah, it only matters for old-school animal breeders and royal genealogists. It's a pre-scientific notion.

An ancestor of mine wrote a memoir of growing up in an Old West mining town. He saw one gunfight. In the early morning, a man saw the front door of his house open and another man walk out. Not happy to find that another gentleman's bacon had been in his grill, he demanded satisfaction. That led to an impromptu duel which the offended husband won. My ancestor was walking to school when it all went down.

That was probably an exceptional situation, since the town in question was notoriously violent and corrupt.

(Shot himself in the shin, so it wasn’t a suicide attempt)

Might have been, sounds like he's a shin-for-brains.

The supermajority barrier to implementing the 25th is higher than it is even for impeachment.

Unless Biden's in a coma or smearing shit on himself on camera, the 25th won't happen.

A lot of Arab-Americans are Christians, who have a problematic relationship with Arab identity.

Is it considered good hygiene for the guy working the fries station to keep reaching his hand into his full Depends and having a sniff?

They wouldn't be capitalists if they didn't try to make a buck from the crisis that they caused.

He doesn't control the federal government this time, so his chances are worse this time.

This is a privacy intrusion that should be banned nationally.

It's one of many ways he shows contempt for civilized society. And the system is so rotten that it doesn't hold him accountable.

And some subreddits have fascist mods who arbitrarily ban anyone who's not a alt-right or worse.

In other words, he'll purge anyone who doesn't repeat his idiotic yapping.

Nobody with a functioning brain thinks Russian army is beat to hell.

I have heard Western military people say this, in person. It doesn't mean Russia is not still a threat, but their capabilities have been degraded during the two years of the "easy 2-week war."

If they're doing so well, why haven't they been able to defeat a country with a population a tenth that of Russia?

Even more, if they're expected to engage in another sustained campaign, who's going to be fighting it? They can barely keep their conscription pipeline full now. Who's going to sign up to sacrifice themselves in Meat Grinder round 2?

Like the Russian Baltic fleet has been battle-hardened by its contact with the ocean floor.

This is more about the Saudis' genocidal war against the Houthis.

Iran and Israel are held to entirely different standards.

By body count, there's no comparison.

I will, however, add an obligatory Fuck the Mullahs-- the Iranian people deserve much better than that.

Interoperability is a big job, but the extent to which it matters varies widely according to the use case. There are layers of standards atop other standards, some new, some near deprecation. There are some extremely large and complex datasets that need a shit-ton of metadata to decipher or even extract. Some more modern dataset standards have that metadata baked into the file, but even then there are corner cases. And the standards for zero-trust security enclaves, discoverability, non-repudiation, attribution, multidimensional queries, notification and alerting, pub/sub are all relatively new, so we occasionally encounter operational situations that the standards authors didn't anticipate.

TripAdvisor has better content. Too many Google reviews give a business 1 star because the review author was too stupid to check working hours, or has some incredibly rare digestive condition that they didn't bother to communicate to the eatery before ordering. Or they expect their Basque waiter to speak fluent Latvian, or to accommodate a walk-in party of 20.