Bush said this in 2008, but it was in response to this question:

Q Mr. President, you haven’t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, it really is. I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as – to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.

Q Mr. President, was there a particular moment or incident that brought you to that decision, or how did you come to that?

THE PRESIDENT: No, I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life. And I was playing golf – I think I was in central Texas – and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it’s just not worth it anymore to do.

This is in reference to the 19 August 2003 Canal Hotel bombing. To that date, the Iraq War (launched 20 March 2003) had been going on for about five months.

It’s not hard to check something like this before you say it.

With a commandment stating “though shalt not kill” you’d think partitioning good kills from bad kills would be a non-starter

Brother, have you picked up and read a Bible? Like even just Exodus?

Edit: I forgot that the fall of Jericho is the Book of Joshua, not Exodus, although timeline-wise, in the grand scheme of things, it’s still basically right after the Commandments, which was what I was getting at.

Joshua and the Promised Land fucking up my perception of how the Bible flows narratively.

“fraid I can’t dollarydoo that, Dave.”

“I’m just sayin’ it’s possible, ya daft cunt!”

My puny, three-dimensional brain cannot fathom Australian Jar Jar Binks.

In a movie where the antagonist tries and fails to hunt down and kill a flightless bird? I could see it.

(It’s 30 minutes.)

Truly.

Not to be confused with Xanthoidea, the superfamily of crabs. (Genuinely did think for a minute that the comic strip was talking about some superfamily, given the “oidea” suffix.)

Hint: Check the clock in the background in panels 2 and 3.

Yup! Those corner pieces are surprisingly good.

Mardering a child? A Bradley, even?

If you cannot agree with the majority of official historians about what really happened in the past, you are not informed enough to decide the future.

Hilarious, because the “majority of historians” would tell you what happens when you institute tests as a requirement to vote. (See also)

“Surely the leopards would never eat my face!” says person with juicy, delectable face.

I want it peer reviewed and standardized, and maybe even overseen by an international ethics board. That dispenses with a lot of the other problems.

Ah, yes, sure.

Like an Ouroboros of irony that you reference low intelligence linked to authoritarian tendencies and then use that to justify an authoritarian measure you’re too unintelligent to understand the consequences of in order to gatekeep the unintelligent authoritarians.

And maybe just link a study you want to discuss instead of a screenshot of an LLM summary you asked it to vomit out for you.

Edit: Ironically, were this stupid shit ever implemented (fuck no is a competent democracy doing this), you’d probably end up with a death penalty situation, where competent historians, ethicists, etc. refuse to participate, just like competent medical professionals and pharmaceutical companies refuse to participate in the death penalty.

More than 116 others remain missing after the incident, which, according to survivors, happened near Guhere, north of the fishing town of Obock, during the night of 8-9 October when the boat was travelling from Djibouti to Yemen.

Oh, so the “at least” is doing some heavy lifting. God damn.

Active functioning search engine website “OFFICIAL LAUNCHES” - Google: August 1998 Yandex: 23 September 1997

What on Earth is this link supposed to show? Did you just expect that nobody would check it?

In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights.

This once again establishes that Google Inc. came about in August 1998, not that Google Search did. Google Search existed in 1997; it was a registered, functioning website with a web search engine.

Edit: Huh, I see it’s a bit more complicated. Google Search was available at google.stanford.edu during 1997. Which is still a functioning domain that uses Google Search to index the web.

Edit 2: Unrelated to this, the fact the first version of the Google logo was created in GIMP is so quaint. TIL

Double nope.

Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, [emphasis mine] which has become the most used web-based search engine.

Google Search had already existed since the domain was registered. (EDIT: See comments below. I don’t know that this is true. It seems google.stanford.edu was up as a functioning web search engine in 1997, but this is getting murky.) You’re talking about Google Inc. the company which was created in 1998. Google Search was launched in 1997.

However, by that comparison, it’s vastly less close, as Yandex LLC was first legally registered 14 September 2000.

TL;DR: You were comparing apples to oranges.

Search website:

• Google: 15 September 1997
• Yandex: 23 September 1997

Legally registered company:

• Google Inc.: 1998
• Yandex LLC: 14 September 2000

Edit: And to clarify, I think the sensible metric here, that works in Yandex’s favor by bringing the two within eight days of each other instead of approximately two years, is to use the date their search engine websites launched and were functioning, not when they filed paperwork that said “We’re legally a company now 🥳”.

That’s not true.

• google.com launched 15 September 1997.
• yandex.ru was announced 23 September 1997.

Which makes them hilariously close, but Google still precedes Yandex, as their search engine websites were their first products.

This kind of even basic information is being deliberately obscured from us; we’re just supposed to shut up and treat our occupation by a surveillance corporation as a fact of life. Misunderstandings about it should be treated as an opportunity to build solidarity; I feel happy to have taught you something about it.

FYI, “Falcon” is a Flock model, not a separate brand. This website is specifically Flock-branded cameras, but non-Flocks, as stated, are more than welcome on an open knowledgebase like OpenStreetMap.