As best as I can tell, the 22nd amendment talks about how no-one can serve more than two terms. It does not, however, give a limit on how long a second term can be.

As such he wouldn’t need to touch that particular amendment to retain power, and so I can’t accept the bet.

It took a minute to find the right place, but the four-year maximum term length is actually set in Article II section 1 of the Constitution proper.

And now bear in mind that Donnie is quoted as being in favour of “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” should the circumstances require it.

He’s going to try it. And since he’s immune from prosecution, what’s going to be done about it if he doesn’t leave?

If he’s still alive in 2029, there’s a good chance he’ll still be President then. And I mean after January.

The rules that say he can’t will all be thrown out over the next four years.

Remember in 2017 when he called Xi “king” of China? Xi apparently liked that. It doesn’t matter whether Donnie only thought Xi liked it or if he actually liked it, it showed what’s been going on in Donnie’s head.

He wants to be king, and kings only step aside when they die.

I say all this in the hope that I’m wrong. But I think the US will have more than an election to contest in four years’ time.

Illiteracy possibly. Almost certainly more people will be less able to read older texts.

If that’s going to happen anyway, they could do worse than adopt Pinyin or some variant of it. Or they might prefer something like Bopomofo if they don’t want to use Western characters for whatever reason.

Either way, any decision like that is likely to be 20-30 years away at minimum, and that’s assuming literacy rates start going down, which they might not. I doubt Xi gives it any thought at all.

The great part is, you don’t even have to have read a blog! Even merely having learned to speak is sufficient!

And maybe not even that! Wild howling! Guttural noises! Ooga-booga! Ugg! Waaga! Eeegh-eeegh-eEeEe!

… I fear I may be too good at this.

The vowel you’re talking about is “ə”, also known as “schwa”. It’s probably the most common vowel sound in all varieties of English - in defiance of spelling - but it occurs in lots of languages. (German often uses it as the sound for final e, and French still retains it in some words and dialects for the same thing too.)

As to how common it is in English:

“Thə vowəl yo~ə’re talking əbout is “ə” also known as “schwa”. It’s probəbly thə most commən vowəl sound in all variəties of English.”

In some varieties ə moves closer to ʌ, a similar sound that’s a little further back in the mouth. Links go to Wikipedia where there are sound files to listen to.

These two remind me of AJ and Miranda from the now defunct User Friendly webcomic. On the plus side, it would mean that AJ got his act together enough to be in a relationship with Miranda, but either she’s found a new favourite restaurant all of a sudden or he’s goofed something up and this is a subtle way of messing with him as revenge.

Spies working for a country do not have to look like the stereotypical person from that country. The spy could even be “on loan” from some other country friendly to SK.

Mathematics doesn’t try anything. It’s abstract. Humans try to fit mathematics to real world phenomena, often with great success, but we don’t know why things seem to work out, only that they do.

Whether it means the universe is fundamentally mathematical is a bigger question than for both science and philosophy combined, and so mathematics is merely a useful modelling tool until we know for certain. (And we might never know.)

The “perfect” mathematics in this case is that this planetary system has all planets in what’s called resonance, that is, the orbit time of the planets is in some relatively simple integer ratio. e.g. the innermost planet might go around twice for every once of the next furthest out (2:1), or three times for every two (3:2), etc.

The article doesn’t give the ratios, but there is a tendency for planetary resonances to self-reinforce, that is, once nearby planets in non-resonant motion get close to an orbital resonance, there is a tendency that their orbit speeds will shift towards that resonance over time, and outside interference is usually needed to break a resonance once it has been set up.

There was no grand mathematical plan, only an emergent phenomenon.

Maybe this system has ended up with 32:16:8:4:2:1. That would be neat.

If I was Finland, I would continue as if Russia had changed nothing at that camp, however reassuring the changes there might appear to be.

Even if it’s “only” a training camp now and not a fully operational military installation, I’d still not let my guard down just in case the Russians decide to take a “special training exercise” over the Finnish border. That is the sort of thing they like to do, after all.

I think they copy-pasted the night sky. Either that or their star placement recreation is superb.

I remember this being panel two in a Dilbert strip (from back in the days when Adams did a great job of presenting as sane.)

I feel like there could be a decent intermediate option here. It quickly glosses over page sizes and then talks about the modulus operator, but misses the fact that bitwise operations can emulate modulus for powers of two, which is generally the sorts of sizes that pages tend to be, and bitwise is generally much faster than the division that modulus performs.

In short, x % z is generally equivalent to x & (z-1) when z is a power of two and is often much faster.

Now, I get that the compiler might be clever enough to turn a modulus operation of the right size into a bitwise operation, but it’s still necessary that the programmer specify that power-of-two size for their circular buffer in the first place.

I would be curious as to whether this “greyer” magic has any benefit when not performing the page table hack.

Unfortunately, stupid people also think themselves geniuses forced to suffer fools.

So it turns out that the word centibillonaire existed before this comic and refers to having 100 billion to 999 billion currency, despite the fact that the prefix centi- means a hundredth not a hundred times.

By rights a centibillionaire should have between 10 million and 999 million currency, i.e. less than a billion.

Frickin’ rich people ruining terminology. I’m still convinced that one of the reasons the US came up with the short scale system of numbering was so that a billion dollars was a somewhat achievable goal.

“Thousand-millionaire” doesn’t have the same ring to it, after all, and “milliardaire” sounds like “millionaire” said by someone with a cold.

One take I saw on it was that he has no case because the local authority were not responsible for the harm caused to him, such as it is.

Sure, he feels aggrieved because of the local authority’s refusal to accede to his demands to search the landfill, but that’s secondary. Had he never pursued it they would not have had to say no.

In his shoes, I’d be sick to my stomach every single day, but I might have given up sooner nonetheless. I’m pretty sure that due to sheer bloodymindedness he’s now in deep with various financial backers who were hoping for a return when he succeeded… and now he owes them money.

Basically, if this doesn’t stop him, I’m not sure he’ll ever stop trying.

“Oh, but officer, I was only pretending to be a criminal when I robbed that store, so it doesn’t count.”

TL;DR Only if you misunderstand the intent of the word “delete”.

In the sense of getting rid of the sites themselves, sure, that’ll never happen.

And in the sense that once you’re known to them you’ll never be forgotten, at least not without a massive lawsuit that you’ve little chance of winning, yes.

But you can ask Meta to delete your account(s) and everything visibly associated with you to the point that you no longer have a presence on any of their sites, and that’s what this article is about.

One of the reasons Meta has been creating fake AI-based accounts is because so many people are doing this and they don’t like it and want to make it look like their site is still active. Which is an excellent reason to delete your accounts, even if they weren’t also doing a bunch of other heinous things.

And you can delete the apps from your phone. You should delete your accounts first though.

Thus proving that Tencent is either stupid or is insulting our intelligence.

You’re overreacting too far the other way. Sure they’re not saying he was a duck, they’re saying he was a goose, but for many practical purposes, those two things are the same.

Furthermore, they said what they said in the way that they said it to foment precisely this sort of confusion (or because they’re equally confused. Take your pick.). Did they go on to explicitly say “not an actual communist, but a bit like one”?

Sometimes, programs that need to start up an editor will honour the $EDITOR environment variable, which should contain the name of, or full path to, a user’s preferred editor.

It’s not set by default though, and a lot of things will naturally default to vi or even ed. Something to be set in a .profile, .bashrc or similar.

$VISUAL is another variable that is used for similar purposes.

The resemblance to certain two letter commands is not entirely a coincidence.