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This American Life and Heavyweight

Two-horse chariot races (bigae) were held in the Campus Martius, the area of Rome named for Mars, after which the right-hand horse of the winning team was transfixed by a spear, then sacrificed. The horse’s head (caput) and tail (cauda) were cut off and used separately in the two subsequent parts of the ceremonies: two neighborhoods staged a fight for the right to display the head, and the freshly bloodied cauda was carried to the Regia for sprinkling the sacred hearth of Rome.

Alrighty then

Navalny most certainly wasn’t stupid. He understood what he was getting into when he got on that flight back to Russia. My guess is that he hoped his arrest and detention would spark an uprising, which sadly didn’t materialize.

I would not have made the choice he did, but I’m also not as brave as he is. Fuck Putin.

Funny thing you should say that because IIRC there actually is a Starbucks on the left right around the corner (though with a traditional facade at least). Source: wife and I were there last year.

Good. They stole this man’s life. The evidence that exonerated him was available to the people involved with his protection 30 years ago. Insane that it took this long.

This stuff just makes my blood boil. Those 3 assholes on the parole board are complete sociopaths. There’s absolutely no justice here.

Sure thing!

Since no one in this thread mentioned it: Thunder is also great, open source and free.

The game is “Street Fighter II”, in case you have a senior moment like I did.

The aspiring leader of the free world everybody. What a joke.

Oh it’s a paw alright

If you’re on Android and use Firefox, you can use the Disable JavaScript extension to disable JS on sites with paywalls, like NYtimes. While not perfect, it works remarkably well.

Also works great on Desktop.

Agreed, it’s clearly meant as a joke.

Thank you for your service.

There’s this: https://github.com/iBicha/playlet

But I haven’t quite figured out how to use it yet.

Huh, I thought Teddit was dead due to the apicalypse. Glad to see it’s still kicking.

And nothing of value was lost.

I’ve installed the Android version of Firefox on my wife’s Chromebook via the Google Play store. There’s also a way to enable Linux within ChromeOS and install the more full fledged version of FF.

See: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/chromebook/

Biznis jenius

"Inadvertently, during the state account’s reconfiguring process, the default setting of ‘zero draft email’ was chosen,” a DOC spokesperson told The Appeal. “This was simply a technical/technician mistake and once realized, it was corrected.”

While the ability to save drafts was restored, the damage was already done. Securus told The Appeal that the deleted drafts were not recoverable. “The e-message draft option is not intended for long term storage,” a Securus spokesperson added in an email to The Appeal.

Wow. Any tech can make a mistake, but this is why you make backups beforehand. This was completely avoidable or at least reversible. And then to have such a douchy response, and even try to shift the blame? That just adds insult to injury.