Haven’t Russia been mediating talks since 2021?

It depends. It’s a promo card, so my first thought is that it was somewhere between a collector’s special and an advertisement. Also, how common is the misprint—if the entire run was misprinted, then it’s not too special.

27 inch would be better!

I saw Warhammer Orks first, then discovered Foss later, and realized, oh, that’s where checkerboards and stripes got popular.

Looks very Chris Foss with those stripes!

Definitely a next-to-the-finale

Definitely a next-to-the-finale

Could be worse; could be Catalonian independence

Oh wow, that takes me back. That and RPG World, by lil’ baby Ian Jones-Quartey.

Sigh. Times are tough.

But the music! And the Darth Maul fight!

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Me too!

This and Tanzania 🇹🇿 are absolutely S-tier flags, no doubt. S-tier of the S-tier.

Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 , you’re fine.

Tennessee: still a banger.

Always upvote a hoovaloo reference!

Spectrum ABSOLUTELY has the best looking pyramid after the arcade. For most of the others, it’s blah. For C64, I just want to ask the artist if they’ve seen any other depiction of this world famous cultural landmark. No?

My Studio Display is also VESA mounted. Same cost.

Now, true, I can’t convert it back to the stand. But I’ve never actually done that with any other TV or monitor I’ve VESA mounted—I just get a pile of stands in my garage.

The arm is metal. The frame and back of the monitor is silver-toned plastic.

It’s less expensive than the Apple display if you make the Apple display more expensive! Also, it comes with Smart Hub if you want to watch TV on your computer without using your computer to watch TV. Bonus feature: plasticky.

Classic Sami colors, but this always strikes me as the Ralph Laureniest of flags (Iceland is the Tommy Hilfigeriest)

1, 5, 4.

I like Nordic Crosses, and the star’s a good color in a good placement. If you want an snowflake star, 4 is the best version.

But 1 emphasizes the rivers!

Hi from Tennessee. How about a side stripe?

Sorry Grey, you’re wrong on Colorado. My most extreme reaction to that video.

This. Climate pressure is agriculture pressure is economic pressure is political pressure.

Doesn’t seem to bode well for the Great Green Wall project, does it?

Everyone is focusing on the drink, but what’s also going on is that Nichelle Nichols is completely aware of where the camera is and then repositioning herself so her face is fully in frame.

I wasn’t yet alive when SNES Zelda was new

And

Or maybe I’m just getting old and bitter lol

That’s an interesting combination there. Time for me to turn into dust and mold 👴🏻💀👻

But seriously, this shows that what anything is, definitively, changes over time. Nostalgia not only cling to the past, not only cling to a singularly myopic version of the past, but actually clings to a version of the past that never truly existed.

The version update talks about cloud saves. Can you sync between iPad and iPhone?

Moore v. Harper was just decided by the overwhelmingly-conservative Supreme Court last month, and it rejects this. State legislatures can do what they want, but state judges and federal judges can tell them to go jump in a lake.

Also, representatives are elected popularly, and after the 17th Amendment, senators must be, too. Governors would be tricky for state legislatures to do, because each state has its own state constitution that would need amending—and even states with effective one-party rule still have a difference between a governor and a speaker of the house. Even in a one-party state, no governor would want to be a creature of the legislature.

But is it possible? Sure. If legislatures pass an amendment through their state-constitutional avenues, then it happens. But that’s a high bar indeed. And it might just be completely ignored or dismantled—in Florida in 2018 the voters overwhelmingly chose to amend the state constitution to give released felons the right to vote—then DeSantis did a run-around by miring it in paperwork. The amendment still stands, however.

My illustration isn’t to prove that people aren’t underhanded, but rather that with sufficient masses of people, and with governors who want to appeal to voters, things happen. The whole point of populism is that Guy X’s ranting and raving about “I speak for you” involves voters actually feeling good about voting for him. Put another way, Trump-loving voters love Trump more than their state reps or governors, and as much as they want Trump in charge, they want to be the ones to make him in charge, or else they don’t get to vicariously enjoy what he does.

It’s healthier than Babylon 5, which is a much smaller property, under the thumb of more incompetent leadership at Warner/AT&T/HBO/Max, and is still coming out with a Blu-Ray remaster later this year.

Trek is fine. There may be some doldrums, but it’s healthier now than in the post-Nemesis (2002) post-Enterprise (2005) landscape. And even then, it was only four years before Star Trek (2009).

Again, there’s a smaller gap between Enterprise and JJ Abrams than there is between Discovery s.1 (2017) and today. Stay calm.

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OUTSIDE CASKS!

Kilroy was here

I would like 8 better if the yellow were either absent or stronger (as in Tanzania) As it is, it’s too narrow.

Also, maybe they decided against it because Tanzania’s flag was decided ten years earlier.

All of these are absolute fire. The vote must have been wild.

For me, what they chose is great. 1 and 4 are also fantastic, but for even greater distinctiveness and panache, I wish they’d picked 6!

Does the switch between side-scrolling run-and-jump platformer and side-scrolling shmup shooter in Super Mario Land for the Game Boy?

Thanks!

Most unbelievable part: Texas has a US flag but no Texas flag.

In the rural southeast, those are more like 300,000

So at least partially SketchyBar, right?

How do you get the toolbar on the top and the info boxes in the bottom beside the dock? I’m guessing that the Mac menu bar is hidden…