Didn’t he fall out with the (state-aligned) church/criticise the Putin regime? If so, I wonder whether the “white substance” could have been played by the FSB. (IIRC, Karlovy Vary is crawling with Russian spooks.)

Prices of penthouse apartments in Moscow are about to spike

So “Einstein visa” was actually a typo?

lol

You go first, bro

Strong fences make good neighbours

Adolph was a relatively uncommon name in English, and thus became taboo easily. In Sweden, Adolf has historically been a common name, largely eclipsing all that unpleasantness happening to the south that Sweden didn’t participate in anyway, do why should families change their surname?

Having said that, naming a child Adolf in Sweden is still uncommon, though presumably more out of concern that he may have a hard time if he travels.

In the UK, magistrates, who try cases at lower courts, aren’t trained lawyers but civilian volunteers, who have trained lawyers as advisors on the technical aspects. Not sure if this is the case in the US.

That doesn’t bode well for the future of the FIFA Peace Prize as an institution

Did Intel somehow manage to close the yawning performance-per-watt gap with Apple Silicon, or is this just this year’s latest potato?

Big Freddie the Lobster energy

Oh no, not my private jet…

Just between you, your bestie and the zuckerbots maintaining your ad-targeting profiles

You take your choice: Mossad or the PLA.

Why, does Switzerland still have a patent on LSD?

Trump is useful to people with effectively infinite money. AOC, quite the opposite.

They may have already had a go at German, where common word pairs are collapsed into macros (i.e. “in dem” (“in the”) becomes “im”, “zu der” becomes “zur” and so on).

The Supreme Court will probably overturn it 6-3

Rather embarrassing for Israel to fumble something so basic

Roberts, in a hot-dog costume, trying to figure out who did this