“If I may” is Canadian english for “please be quiet, I haven’t finished speaking”.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

Nope. It’s an out-of-use term, but it is definitely a synonym of bullying.

It’s easy to cast this as an all-or-nothing kind of thing, but it is possible to make multilateral deals where everyone involved gets what they want. That’s why we want competent and trained people governing these transactions.

… Green snake in a sugar cane field.

Are you OK?

Troll.

*potatoes, Mr. Quayle.

And to think people hailed Facebook and other online services so much in the Arab Spring of 2010 that someone in Egypt named their kid Facebook.

“Power corrupts” seems to be universal with humans.

I would tend to agree with the process part of accelerationism, but I don’t think there is a goal.

The “crazy like a fox” theory is contradicted by several pretty dumb tells that suggest the administration is headed and staffed by actual idiots.

to hell with it

You don’t know what you’re asking for here.

That’s usually the implication.