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Kind of — Bob Hope made the joke in the late 1950s:

Bob Hope, back from his Russian junket, noted that there had been TV in all the rooms of his Moscow hotel–”only it watches you”

Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-soviet-russia

I’m a straight middle-aged man who regularly wears pink shirts and sometimes pink pants. I honestly don’t think anyone has ever given me any kind of look and I’m not the least bit self-conscious about pink clothing.

11 years ago, I was dropping my daughter off at kindergarten and a kid walked up and said, “Hey! boys can’t wear pink!” I smiled and said, “Whoever told you that was wrong.” That’s the only time I’ve ever seen anything.

Is there something specific about sneakers?

I’m going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an “s” with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn’t part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an “s” with a cedilla.

I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.

While the headline makes it sound like three different airlines banned her, this is actually just one company, since Alaska already owned Horizon, and then Alaska and Hawaiian merged last year.

Incidentally, as a gold member of that of that company’s loyalty program, this news makes me even happier that Alaska is my go-to airline.

I had read previously (and just confirmed on Wikipedia) that Mia Khalifa (real name Sarah Joe Chamoun) got her stage name from her dog, Mia, and Wiz Khalifa.

So, familiarity with Wiz Khalifa is directly relevant to knowing how Mia Khalifa’s name is spelled.

I don’t have it on Steam yet, but I have Balatro’s Completionist++ on mobile.

I’m working on getting it on Steam too. Once you’ve done it once, getting it again isn’t hard, just time-consuming. It’s a 0.2% achievement, I think.

This is a very old topic, such that IMO, it’s not worth putting in the effort to discuss it online. Fortunately, it’s also a very well-researched topic.

For the question of whether disruptive protests help or hurt, the answer seems to be slightly more on the “help” side (mostly in terms of drawing attention, as I understand it). Here is a recent article that looks into the question in depth: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13064859/

Specifically, I think it’s a reference to Dean Browning.

Doucy was term-limited and didn’t run in 2022. Hobbs beat Kari Lake.

It doesn’t even look like rosemary. Rosemary comes off from the branch as a “pointy” leaf (like a wide pine needle). That looks like rosemary with thyme growing out of the tip of each leaf.

A fun counterpoint to the “albums weren’t meant to be shuffled” argument is Apollo 18 by TMBG.

On the track list, “Fingertips” is track 17, followed by “Space Suit” at track 38. That’s because Fingertips is actually 21 mini songs (mostly 10 seconds or less), each with their own track, that are supposed to appear randomly between full songs when you listen on shuffle.

On the other hand, modern streaming services usually just have a single track for Fingertips, so I’m now used to hearing those 21 mini songs in the original, “play it straight through” order.

Oh, I remember the controversy about that show! For Love, Death, and Robots season 1, Netflix randomly put people in one of four buckets (probably a hash of your account ID mod 4 or something), and your bucket determined your episode order.

Apparently, they thought it would be a neat way to present an anthology series (since order doesn’t matter). Conspiracy theories arose that Netflix had sussed out peoples’ sexual orientation and were using that to determine the episode order.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Love,_Death_%26_Robots_episodes

It doesn’t imply that he’s technical. The Merriam-Webster definition of scion being used here is “a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family”.

His family is wealthy because of technology (Oracle) and he’s the descendant.

While the article focuses on Mercedes-Benz, as a Volvo owner, I was immediately concerned about what will happen when my lease is up.

Buried at the bottom of the article are these three paragraphs:

Volvo, which is majority-owned by Shufu’s Geely, said on Tuesday that it received specific authorization from the U.S. government to bypass federal bans restricting connected vehicle software and hardware linked to China.

Volvo confirmed its special authorization but did not immediately respond to questions about the other bills and their potential impact on the company.

Volvo Cars sold 121,600 vehicles in the U.S. last year. Mercedes-Benz sold 303,200 passenger cars and 12,400 vans in the country during the same period.

Clearly, the correct answer is Dr. Acula.

My feed right now:

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The article is not clear about what specific visas are affected, so I’m not sure what’s changing.

To give two examples, my sister and I are both Canadians living in the US.

My sister met a guy online twenty years ago, did some cross-border trips to visit each other for a year, then he proposed while she was visiting him one time. Since she was now planning to move to the US, she could not move towards getting a green card from a tourist visa. So, she and her new husband traveled to Canada and reentered the US, declaring her intent to become a permanent resident (and probably had a bunch of paperwork, including their marriage certificate). I believe she was allowed to stay in the US while the green card process played out. Maybe this is the part that’s changing?

In my case, I was working for a US company abroad, and transferred to headquarters on an L1 visa (highly skilled internal worker). About six months after moving, the company’s immigration lawyers kicked off the process to get me a green card and I received it a little shy of two years after moving. Changing this process would mess things up, since (by definition) I was in the US for my job and would have had a hard time leaving the country for over a year while the green card process played out.

The distinction is the “intent” of a given type of visa. The tourist visa specifically implies “I’m here to visit, then get the hell out”. The L1 visa (as well as the TN, the H1-B, and a few others) is specifically designated as a “dual intent” visa, meaning “I might plan to stay permanently”. If they’re changing the rules for dual intent visas, that’s messed up. If they’re not, I’m not sure what exactly is changing.

For people who don’t know Dutch, the pronunciation is kind of like “noiken in de koiken”.