While I normally don’t give the Brits much credit, gotta say NI is not being held in the UK against its collective will. Your imagined cruel English oppressor holding on to land by force, opposing the will of the local population, is out of date in the 21st century.

Almost all Brit politicians would love to be the PM at the time of Irish unification.

Since 1998, the NI Secretary is obliged by treaty to carry out a referendum for unification as soon as polling indicates there’s a reasonable chance it would get a yes majority.

It just hasn’t happened yet. It probably will, within a few decades.

It’s not more precise, it becomes inaccurate.

A man says he’s 6’6". Sure. If he’s anywhere between 6’5½" and 6’6½", that’s true.

You say he’s 198.12cm tall. The range of this being true is now thinner than a needle. It has gone far beyond what anyone actually measures. In over 99% of cases, it’s not true, and if it is, it won’t be for long, because the human body isn’t nearly that consistent from breath to breath.

The conversion with spurious false precision has made the number go from true to not true.

The man is six foot six, yes, true. The man is 198.12cm - no he isn’t.

so many researchers toasting their bagels and yet never using your dedicated bagel button will wear you down.

When the original value is only precise to plus or minus half an inch, it makes no sense whatsoever to do a conversion that’s a hundred times more precise.

Alec’s Texan cousin who showed up in this video.

nobody is measuring people to a tenth of a millimeter.

i doubt i would have time for cooking at an active orogeny.

been there once - saw a delivery of some big canisters of gas 🤔

that’s during the moving picture though

this is before the moving picture

let’s bring that phrase back

No, that’s not why.

Kazon, for sure. “not worthy of assimilation”

“why does the string between these cups smell like det-cord?”

well, they won’t be, after they explode.

One can reasonably assume they studied the communications for a few weeks to figure out who’s who, and then sent the detonate code to a certain list of pager numbers.

does it still stand? are Hamas using the same supply chain of altered pagers?

signs point to no.

real users just inspect the blinkenlights array.

it’s both. Williamson just tweeted today “Haitian voodoo is real”.

She is. It has always meant “when Russian tanks are coming, submit, don’t resist, of course the Russians are justified rolling their tanks into other countries.”

Stein is happy for every town in Ukraine to end up like Bucha, Bakhmut, and Mariupol. She’s a tankie.

still haven’t got used to that being her actual name.

Ah, good old “two different things can’t both be true!” deflection.