“Removed” implies they were there before, and threads for this have zero evidence showing they were there before (and a lot of people claiming they weren’t). This whole thing got started because somebody posted about it on Twitter – and they claimed “South Lebanon” which has apparently metastasized/telephoned into people claiming it was all of Lebanon.

All you show here is a link to Apple Maps, and yeah, they aren’t there. This is a thread from 6 years ago claiming Apple’s coverage was so egregiously bad that they couldn’t plan a route near Beirut. Apple Maps has always been the laughingstock of the major maps services, including even OpenStreetMap whom they (IIRC) sometimes pull data from. No change on Bing or GMaps either, and why the fuck would Apple delete basically all of Lebanon? What mustache-twirling plan did they have to aid Israel’s invasion compared to the fucking PR disaster once it was inevitably proven? (And what part does leaving Tyre – which they call “Tyr” for some godforsaken reason – when it’s functionally abandoned play in this maniacal scheme?)

If you have evidence that it wasn’t like this before, then cool. If not, maybe posting your original “research” to a world news comm isn’t justified.

I totally think Star Wars could’ve pulled off a more political plot – I actually even think it could’ve been just as good for a popcorn flick as the OT and far better for the people who want deep, complex, meaningful lore while enhancing the OT. Palpatine’s plan to instigate a war and play both sides, to me, is the actually perfect Palpatine backstory. Anakin’s backstory in the (very) broad strokes is extremely compelling too, and Obi-Wan was overall fantastic. Problem is that George completely fucked up the writing, Anakin’s character development and his relationship with Padmé, a lot of the acting, etc., and squandered so much of the potential the premise had.

This new wave of prequel apologia, that, imo, was catalyzed by the influx of memes, is pointing at criticisms of the prequels from like 15 years ago while totally ignoring the more nuanced, well-argued, and – I think – damning criticisms of the modern day. It’s basically strawmanning when the criticisms are so old and so dead.

I don’t think it’s a ridiculous idea? Children these days – I’d assume – need an email address at an increasingly younger age. So you pay $1 to get an indefinite voucher for that address – which might actually be worthwhile to some if their child’s name is somewhat common and the full name is available today without a bullshit string of numbers at the end.

Granted there’s no guarantee Proton will be around in e.g. 8 years, but so far, they seem to be doing reasonably well, and $1 is, like, the price of an apple.

Yeah, how dare Proton have forced that customer to use their personally identifying credit card when they paid for the service! I can’t believe Proton AG prevented them specifically from using cash or cryptocurrency when they openly allow and advertise it for everyone else. Especially when that person was allegedly in (what the US government considers) a domestic terror cell; Proton should’ve known the risks.

And then on top of all that, they readily sent the Swiss government that credit card information completely out of the blue. Bastards!

It’s “if I can’t have it, nobody can!” In other words, Donald Trump is a malignant narcissist toddler. More at 11.

Point two cents per kWh? Holy hell; that’s 75 times less than the US average. Were you feeding a ton of rooftop solar back into the grid or something?

Yeah, I mention those at the top, but doesn’t work for people who need/want to wear glasses. Plus, at least to me, putting on swim goggles dry pulls on my hair and is uncomfortable. Lab goggles are the more generalized – and arguably comfortable – solution, and realistically, there’s no issue with the lab goggles’ seal (the mistake I made one time was because I was being an idiot and wouldn’t have been prevented by swim goggles).

Presoaking and making the cut slightly more dangerous seems like a silly solution when you have a pair of goggles in a drawer unless you’re waiting for your soon-to-be-only pair of goggles in the mail. Especially because all you’re likely to be doing is kind of watering down the droplets, making it less bad.

This is true. (re: droplets; study also rejects the popular chilling method). People in my experience don’t understand how much safer a sharp knife is until you put one in their hands and get them to just try it.

Otherwise, though, the “fume hood” approach seems extremely excessive when a cheap, comfortable, unobstructive pair of goggles is likely to work more consistently and with less thought. I merrily chop with my cutting board wherever I want and standing however I want.

A sharp knife is something you should be using regardless, but these other methods like meticulous posture, fume hoods, pre-soaking, etc. all seem more convoluted and varying degrees of less effective than grabbing some goggles from a drawer and putting them on your face.

[insert modified justification from Vegan Bingo here]

You know what? If that carrot were in the wild, it’d be way worse off. Imagine being gnawed on for hours by a rabbit; I’m giving it a quick, painless™ death. You moralizing nihilivores are obnoxious.

We vegans kind of slide everything over, so slaughtering animals becomes unthinkable, and butchering vegetables becomes sad.

Yeah, I don’t know why you got downvoted so heavily (assuming the writing quirk is part of it; maybe I’ve read too much Homestuck to be fazed). I think some people think they have to engage, so upvote/downvote becomes an “agree/disagree” button instead of something they can ignore if they don’t actively like the content but also think it’s on-topic, made in good-faith, etc.

A Metal Gear villain in the making.

Here’s the full letter.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects:—my only reason for writing, is to remove a heavy weight from my mind, so now you must understand, what you will perceive before you come to the end of this; that I am writing merely for my own pleasure & not your’s.

To answer the other commenter’s question: no. Darwin married first cousin Emma Wedgwood; this letter was to second cousin William Darwin Fox (“My dear Fox”).

If only Darwin had waited; he could’ve dropped bars with “I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about finches.”

Oh, with a denim apron and lab goggles, I look like a bootleg Jesse Pinkman. But that kind of makes things a bit more fun in its own way.

I think so?? Some of it depends, I think, on the variety of onion (e.g. I’ve always found sweet onions to be gentler compared to white onions). I don’t always cry without them per se, but it still feels noxious.

The original AP source:

CBS is just syndicating it, and fuck CBS.