Assad’s whereabouts are “unknown,” so we get to guess which Russian city he’s in. My vote is St. Petersburg.

Doggerland was discovered when a dredging trawler brought up a block of peat and they found a stone tool inside. They were, of course, initially mystified about how a stone tool could end up inside peat under the ocean.

Also, a henge isn’t a stone circle. It’s a ring-shaped earthwork. What we think of as Stonehenge is a ring of Megalithic standing stones (not all standing stones are in a circle incidentally) in the middle of a henge.

It’s much easier to lower the overhead on your car prices by totally eliminating the R&D when you don’t care about intellectual property theft.

Not exactly a misunderstanding but… my dad (a professor here in the U.S.) had a close friend and colleague, a Spaniard, who would go off to an intensive language summer school thing every year to teach American college students whatever esoteric Spanish literature was his specialty and only spoke Spanish the entire time.

Whenever he got back, he would spontaneously start talking to us in Spanish, suddenly realized we didn’t speak Spanish, then restart again in English. It didn’t embarrass him or anything, but it amused me when he did it.

Until you run out of that fissile material when you could just be using renewable energy…

The rare call took place on Nov. 27

Making those calls rare seems like a bad plan. Was it also like that during the Cold War? Maybe nations with nukes should have regular communication with each other’s militaries to avoid bad stuff?

You want to maintain your murder house so you don’t get people in to do repairs and see the body parts hanging on meat hooks.

Wdym about an “omerta”

Sounds like they knew a fun vocabulary word and decided to apply it poorly.

The waves on Lake Michigan were far larger than I expected when I visited. Not as high as the Atlantic or Pacific, but pretty big.

Don’t accidentally drop your phone in Lake Baikal. You’ll never get it back.

The Spanish came, stole as much from the Aztecs, Maya and other peoples that they could, then founded Mexico.

Then, for centuries, they did things like dig up graves to loot even more. And the people they subjugated are so poor and desperate that they’re often the ones looting their own ancestor’s graves on behalf of Mexico’s “cultural riches.”

The U.S. has a lot of “cultural riches” from various indigenous groups too. They also didn’t generally donate them.

There’s plenty of finger-pointing to go around on this one with both countries, but I think Ms. Sheinbaum might remember that many of Mexico’s “cultural riches” were looted.

To be fair “weird cult” and/or “murder house” describes at least half the posts in this community.

The person who sent it to me described it as “The Winchester Mansion on a budget.”

I assume you already think that about the Guardian and the Observer, right?

I’m not so clear, reading about Tortoise Media, what’s so bad about it. Can you explain please?

Feel free to criticize the Jerusalem Post for other reasons, they deserve it, but their reports on near-miss asteroids where they compare their size to random things is always amusing.

https://www.jpost.com/tags/asteroid

What postwar Gaza Strip? You mean the Israeli coastal resort area and (I’m guessing) inland landfill?

It will be interesting in 15 years to see all those people happily getting on the plane to fly to their Israeli resort, just lying to themselves that their vacation isn’t built on the genocide that they witnessed.

My answer is SNAKE BYTE!

Just TWO keys, none of that FOUR KEY nonsense from other snake games.

It doesn’t matter how old I get, I will always go back to Snake Byte and spend hours playing it when I do.