In a topological sense, I have some good news…

Not to mention Scooby-Doo, where each episode revealed that the monster was some grown-up authority figure abusing his power.

Maybe they can swap? We get Ukraine, and Orban gets to sit at the Czar’s right hand next to Lukashenko and Kadyrov in the glorious Eurasian union state.

I hope Sweden’s preparing those Gripens, just in case.

The only way it could be more unsubtle is if it was chopped up for steel, which was used to make artillery shells for Russia

Real men bleed out

Which, given the location and geopolitical situation, makes sense.

The idea that splitting infinitives is wrong comes from an 18th-century fad of treating English grammar as if it were Latin, to demonstrate that one had been educated in Latin and wasn’t just a common peasant. English is a Germanic language and its infinitives are made to be splittable where it helps expression. If you avoid doing so, your sentences will have a noticeable formal stiffness to them, which may ease your acceptance among the 18th-century gentry, though these days will just look awkward and archaic.

In any case, it has little to do with semantics. Actual anti-semantic graffiti would probably be more like Dadaist tone poems or William S. Burroughs’ cut-up technique. Or, these days, AI slop.

tfw your old subculture from decades ago becomes a lot of people’s sexual fetish

The narcissism of minor differences?

I’ve heard English referred to as a Germanic-Romance creole, which makes a lot of sense when you consider how far removed it is from Old English.

So, metrosexuals then?

So, guaranteed roles for conservative white men then?

My guess: one of them will be parachuted in to replace Farage as the Musk-approved leader of Reform UK, and presumably the next UK Prime Minister.

In Germany, the resurgence of Die Linke (a hard-left party who reject the prevailing wisdom that there is organic demand for far-right policies and the way to beat the fash is by stealing their policies and presenting them in a more acceptable form) at a time when the Social Democrats (who did exactly that) lost votes may be a beacon of hope.

They’re now called “Freedom Spots”

So they support bigotry but oppose being called out on it?

This is one of the darker examples of “what’s trashy when poor people do it but classy when rich people do it”. If it’s the poors, cue hillbilly jokes/banjo music. If, however, you’re talking about the upper strata of a steeply hierarchical society trying to preserve dynastic wealth (or imitating the customs of those who did), you’re now in Crusader Kings territory.

All Californians to be issued with hot potatoes to put in their mouths to get the pronunciation right

You can instantly get whatever you want, only it’s made from 100% technical debt