It almost looks like you’d expect the walls to start closing like one of those spiked wall traps.

Aaand bookmarked. 100% going on my list of stuff to do.

Gotta keep that scurvy away somehow

The concertina has historically been a favorite instrument among people who travel often (due to its small and compact size), leading it to be a common instrument among soldiers, sailors, and cowboys. One was even brought aboard Robert Peary’s 1891 expedition of the Greenland Arctic. Despite the pop-culture association of the concertina with the Golden Age of Piracy, the concertina was invented approximately 100 years after the heyday of piracy in the North Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina

Huh neat.

I appreciate you sticking to what you threatened lol

Should include a view of the demolished East Wing

Seems like it’s coming back

Actually this one’s believable. The script typically follows:

“Do you want to go golfing this weekend” “Are you coming to the bbq Saturday” “Hey this is so-and-so” Etc.

And if you reply “who is this” or whatever to that effect the bot will say “Oh I’m sorry” or something like that. Then later follow up with a “my names _____” usually followed by a picture of an Asian woman, and then an attempt to “get to know” who the bot is talking to.

The whole mistaken identity bs to establish a dialog and try to form a connection with a random stranger to scam them.

This was the cleanest least jpeg’d to hell version I could find that didn’t also edit the Nisan response to “kys”

Well tell Wikipedia and the millions of boba tea shops out there that market it as such that they’re wrong. Honestly…

Yes, it’s called bubble tea, or boba tea.

Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca milk tea, boba tea, or boba;

It’s there to convey the line’s intonation.

Honestly I’m partial to it as well. Possibly for the same reasons, but also because the bar and buttons are clearly defined and have good contrast. The later designs begin to fade out until now the scroll bar is just a thin line, which is sometimes hidden, so you don’t see it unless you’re looking for it.

Recent? Where’ve you been the last 200 years?

Still very interesting

Boba tea

Great interview, very interesting read.

No doubt about that

Bill Pulte the soon to be appointed director of National Intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard.