committed to my dream of making affordable healthcare solutions available

Then she'd be transferred pretty rapidly to the Epstein wing - the one with cell floors sloping towards a scorpion pit.

Fuck About with a multi-trillion dollar profit centre ; Find Out about the difficulty of stocking scorpion anti-venom, or even detecting it with commercial forensics equipment.

Sold to a brothel keeper in El Salvador (for re-export to their Texas Operation), most likely. It's that, or they cost the state something to feed and house.

You probably wouldn't be able to give them away. The shipping cost to anyone likely to be interested - even a "Macintosh museum", if there were such a thing - would be prohibitive. I faced the same problem when I subscribed to Science (and Nature, in alternating years). I really didn't want the dead-tree editions which waited for me on the doorstep when I got home from work, to go to waste, but the only people collecting them to send to, say, third world libraries wanted delivery only at their base 500 miles away. It was a toss up between the cost of posting them or loading the car and driving them - and in either case nearly the same as the original subscription.

And significant verbal diarrhoea. How many volumes of "the Gallic Wars"? 6? And he ran a major PR campaign over the previous Hispanic War too. And at least one into Asia (Minor?) to give us Veni! Vidi! Victi!

Calling the Tangerine Shitgibbon an "Orange Julius Cæsar" is pretty insulting to Ol' JC. He may have been a genocidal tyrannical dictator (he was even ELECTED as dictator by the Senate! ; the genocide was mostly in Transalpine Gaul ; he was assassinated, allegedly, for behaving like a tyrannos - a king), but he repeatedly led his troops into battle without excusing himself on the grounds of bony spurious spurs. And he could spin a good line in his native tongue ("Veni! Vidi! Victi!" - "I came, I saw, I conquered!" Works in any language!).

He even made a decent attempt at proving the the pen is mightier than the sword by trying to stab back at his assassins with his pen ("stylus" - probably rather more substantial then the Shitgibbon's Sharpie). "Infamy! Infamy, They've all got it in for him!"

At least Shitgibbons don't exist, to be insulted by the association.

When you elect a clown for king, the palace becomes a circus.'

Now, that has definite Julian family overtones - but the Claudian branch. If you believe Graves' weaving of the Aesop fable about the frogs and King Stork into the later "autobiography" of Clavdivs.

Any more progress in America on unmasking the fake assassination attempt? If it was a Trump organisation effort, you can safely expect the cover up to have been done incompetently. Or did they provoke a wingnut (well, he had a gun ; therefore "wingnut") and "accidentally" leave a roof open to him? Either case, there will be a Signal group somewhere.

I promote renaming it for a location relatively central in the Gulf, and of considerable politically-neutral importance. See above.

Plus, I've spent years training Bloody AutoIncorrect to spell the name correctly, and I want to maximise the benefit I get from that sunk cost.

see if you can find Turkey. You can't. They wanted the official English name to be Türkiye and as such it is now called Türkiye on any official English language map.

I had noticed the change, but didn't know it was a deliberate choice. "Türkiye" is it.

You were posting from an Android app of some sort? From a desktop browser, I'm probably going to get mangled by Slash(code).

Or how about the body of water between england and france... The english call it "the english channel", whereas the french simply call it "la manche" which translates to "the channel".

"La manche" translates from (French) French to (English) English as "the sleeve". Which is reasonably descriptive at my level of sewing. Uneven width, angular corners all along the length. Bitterly cold. Gales howl through it. Definitely a sleeve.

Were you using EN_US, or translating to FR_CA? In general, it doesn't matter much, but they're not the same languages, which is why they have different names.

has already struck out against universities, students, lawyers, and companies

And librarians.

Those famous hot-heads of the Revolution, the librarians.

They'll be coming for the producers of books and pamphlets soon. From Benjamin Franklin to the tattiest self-scribed blog.

Don't like the ratings?

Moderate.

Then meta-moderate.

It's not a new system - it just needs users (i.e. YOU) to do a moderate amount of work for the common good.

If you don't like such socialist ideas, stop using international sites (slashdot.ORG) and try using slashdot.US or wherever they hide the US-specific version.

The US is currently using the immigration system to target brown people

Brown people and tourists. And particularly brown tourists. And if you're a soccer fan, they've probably for some nefarious re-education camp for you to make you think properly before you leave.

Tibet, isn't it? Take the road to Shangri-La, then the donkey track from Utopia junction.

The Peking government has a stop for Nirvana on the high-speed rail line if your ass isn't donkey-shaped, or you have more than 5 donkey loads of freight to move.

A tale in three acts:

Act 1 :

Speaker : We're sending the bad stuff away! Interviewer: Where are you sending it away TO? Speaker : We're not sending it it away TO anywhere. We're just sending it away FROM us!

Act 2 :

Speaker's Audience : [satisfied]

There is no Act 3.

The periodic table of elements tells us that lithium is vital for batteries with high energy per mass and volume. There is no alternative to lithium.

How to say you don't understand the periodic table without actually admitting it.

Essentially similar chemistry for batteries can be achieved using sodium in place of lithium. The batteries don't have such a high stored-energy per unit volume metric as the lithium versions, but outside transportation systems that's not such a big deal. Building a lithium-based grid-scale battery for balancing renewables electrical supply with demand is showing how poor your understanding is. While also unnecessarily increasing the costs, and making the lithium less available for uses where it's energy density is important.

Periodic table : the properties of elements recur at semi-regular, predictable intervals when the elements are organised in sequence of protons/nucleus count. In consequence, elements with very similar properties can be found in vertical columns in most representations of the table.

What do you think is going to happen in (just under) 3.7 years time? An election, or something?

Trump has been floating the idea of third terms, and the consequent outright suspension of the US Constitution for 3+ years now. You've had your Reichstag moment ; you've elected the dictator. You've just got the wait until your second (arguably third, or even fourth) revolution now. Then you might get another election.

What was that kite being flown about suspending habeas corpus a couple of days ago? Oh yes. The sound of your constitution being butchered in the town square.