Based.

Always has been.

The USSR from the Stalin era onwards had world-leading biological and chemical weapons programmes, largely due to having plenty of test subjects in the gulag system.

Any dude with hair plugs or a loud, powerful car would confirm that it is.

I’m surprised Nokia never made a sauna-proof phone

I’m glad to see that. I had concerns, with the devs being C64 veterans whose last three decades or so of career would presumably have been far removed from the machine-level details of C64-like systems.

The jokes write themselves

Has he explained how they manage to keep a litter tray in the cockpit despite turbulence?

True, though there is the old saying “two Jews, three opinions”

Has the Jewish community ever been unsplit?

Those golden eagles around the winged Lady Liberty on the roof can have laser eyes to shoot down any incoming missiles (or bags of drugs catapulted over the border by MS-13, for that matter).

The incoming missiles to justify this can be provided by the fact that there’s now a prominent structure packed with ammunition standing at the centre of the US capital, a target too good to pass up.

Superheroes are an inherently culturally American concept, and this comes through when authors from other countries do them.

Case in point: Britain. They had a few superhero cartoons like Bananaman and Supergran, but they were inherently parodic, stretching the bombast inherent in the concept to breaking point and deriving humour from the juxtaposition between that and the small, shabby details of everyday life in the UK. Though one could argue that the actual British equivalents of American costumed crimefighters would be James Bond and/or Doctor Who, though these don’t fall neatly into the category.

Also, Heavenly Creatures

This is my surprised face

In the EU, buying online from Germany (or occasionally Poland) is generally the best value option.

Here comes the love-bombing.

If the Zionists have the strategic sense of the TERFs, they’ll love-bomb Sheeran à la Graham Linehan. “Those nasty terrorist antisemites have rejected you, Ed? That’s their true nature. Your real family is here, with us.” Nick Cave or Jonny Greenwood or someone will fly over to play support at one of his shows (before a less illustrious act can be found for the rest), Boy George will send words of praise and propose a guest appearance on the next album, and so on.

Nakagin Capsule Tower, thou art avenged

It’s now at 175-174 in favour of the left/centre, with a gap of about 0.1%. It may take a few days and the counting of postal votes to determine who actually won.

New grift just dropped

Everybody outside of China who designs silicon has R&D facilities in Israel. They seem to have a lot of silicon expertise there, and have for decades (the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor was designed there around 1980, and the engineer’s Hebrew initials are on the chip die).