The rules didn’t really change. It was all just based on a single court decision that nobody cared to challenge until 2018.

It’s not that it didn’t age well, it was seen as very goofy when it came out, too. If I remember correctly, there was a copy protection that censored boobs in pirated versions.

I just wanted to remind everyone that Thief: The Black Parade exists. https://www.thiefguild.com/fanmissions/26275/thief-the-black-parade

System administration in the public sector. Lots of openings, pay is very low, though.

His character is closer to Edison, not his intellect.

Haven’t seen such a cafe since 2016.

My newspaper does this. It’s rather left wing, but once in a blue moon a neoliberal gets to write the editorial. The letters to the editor write themselves.

He doesn’t need to. He realized he just needs to call him a great leader and Trump will eat that right up. Trump would then do everything for him until his aides tell him not to.

A retired police officer once told me that at least in the 70s and 80s German police was full of neonazis and hooligans. They couldn’t find enough decent recruits during the RAF years.

He likely didn’t believe half the shit he said. But that’s all he will ever be known for.

You really underestimate fascists, don’t you?

It’s folklore and was probably first told among people who had only a shaky grasp on anatomy, but a firm grasp on what organs were considered very important in stories. Think about it: The modern zomby is killed by destroying the brain. This fits our common folk knowledge of anatomy much better than the heart. We consider the heart as nothing more than a blood pump and the brain as the centre of what we are. In former times the heart was seen as much more important, dating back to acient Greek lore who thought the brain was just a cooler for our blood.

In this day and age we have conservative and even far-right openly homosexual politicians who actively work on anti-gay policies. So it seems to me that some people never get their heads out of the closet.

If Russia doesn’t like that someone gets arrested abroad, they just take hostages and demand a prisoner exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelimkhan_Khangoshvili#Assassination

You mean Konrad Dippel? As far as I know it’s very much disputed whether Mary Shelly took any inspiration from the folk stories around him.

He’ll most likely not spend his whole life in prison, but rather on average about 20 years.

Works for the Russians, though.

I can’t remember that he use pickled body parts in the novel. Because that’s basically what happens to bodies used for anatomy training. The way they are prepared they can be stored at room temperature for weeks, just covered with a damp sheet.

Sorry, but I really doubt that this can happen. I also worked in anatomy, I’ve seen and felt what the formaldehyde does to tissue. There’s no way that preserved muscle tissue can react to the stimulation of a pacemaker.

My take: The gold probably wasn’t the problem. You have to ask yourself, how did he get metal into his veins? It was either dissolved or suspended in a liquid. If it was suspended, that guy was giving himself embolisms by injecting small foreing objects into his bloodstream. If it was dissolved he was probably injecting himself with pure poison.

Exactly that. The software is not meant to flag anything as cancer, though. It’s meant to flag points of interest and it’s the radiologist’s job to check what they might be. The problem is, that there seem to be radiologists who think the AI can accurately detect cancer.