we haven’t even had 464 days since october 7th!

I’m a mirror. if you’re nice to me, I’m nice to you. if not, well…

and one prime example of those pieces of wickedness? putting in place an imaginary supernatural source of good.

i am ashamed to say that i have driven when drunk. this was over a decade ago and i don’t remember the 13km trip taken late at night.

i am thankful that the car was found intact on inspection the next morning and i hadn’t hit anybody.

but that was the last time i drove drunk. i was a prize idiot to do so–as is anyone else who does so.

cheers mate.

what are these rules? i genuinely am not aware of them.

… if I had to see a discretely parked boat…

fyi: discreetly parked.

all boats are discretely parked otherwise.

they’re proposing to lock same-sex partners together for 15 years? why not just let them live together by themselves – they save 15 years’ worth of taxpayer money per person!

i found it easier to quit smoking, frankly, than quit sugary soft drinks.

the journey was simple: i just refused to smoke the next cigarette. i kept the last half-open pack and the lighter within easy reach (i could have started again in 5 seconds, if i wanted) and did not throw any of my many backup stash packs away.

the first week was tough, and the smoking dreams persisted for about 15 months, but i no longer crave nicotine in any form.

as someone who’d smoked 8-12 cigs a day for over 20 years, it definitely wasn’t as hard to quit as people make it out to be (even though this was my fifth attempt to do so in a decade). seriously, quitting cola drinks has been the far tougher challenge for me.

one does wish you never get into a profession involving laser, or sonar, or scuba. or one where you woukd need to conduct an MRI or CT scan. or at a stock exchange with those stock tickers shortening themselves all over the place.

no malice meant, you see. it’s just that your coworkers in such jobs would find interacting with you immensely tedious.

sigh. why so many ios vs. windows posts?

Reuters had a choice to reword the article (like some other media houses in OP’s link have done) or retract the article. they have chosen to do the latter.

the core difference is that choice. had the court deemed that the article should have been taken down, Reuters wouldn’t have even had that choice.

getting mad at the court in this case is akin to getting mad at the car that a drunk driver drove into a house. sure, it has been the proximal instrument of destruction, but it wasn’t the one who veered off the road.

blame the leeching lawyers here.

just a minor clarification. the court did not order the article to he taken down. the court just said that the article constitutes defamation.

it was Reuter’s decision to therefore take down the article. in OP’s first link, there’s info of other media houses that have also pulled such stories.

blame the scummy lawyers protecting the scumbag and his predatory behaviour.

from what one hears about the pressure of these exams, i dont think the reasons for those measures are as wholesome as assumed in this comment.

these exams are amongst the most competitive in the world and their outcome provides only a single window which dictates the rest of your life. that is not a system worth boasting about.

you do know that you could have made your point in a nicer manner, yes? why would we want to bring the strenuous tones of hollow outrage from reddit to here?

we are all better than that, even the big danish guys.

and take care of your liver.

Prem Sikka in hindi literally translates to “love coin”.

that headline really weirds one out with that reading.

the iphone 5s was the best form factor for a smartphone for me. the mini is the closest thing we have to that.

maybe it’s waiting for you to tock?

you’re lucky. in my country one can’t get a dumb tv bigger than 32". nobody sells it. not online, not in brick and mortar stores.