Sorry, by “standing in the way of” you mean “pushing for improvements to…and succeeding”? That “standing in the way”?

That’s absolute hilarity. More ridiculous than when Laborites criticise their actions regarding Rudd’s climate policy. Because at least that one appears to be a valid critique of the Greens if you don’t have all the details (like how Rudd’s policy would have no reduction in greenhouse emissions for 25 years). But this? Even with the most cursory of looks, the Greens did the right thing here.

Jamie being a unisex name, I dunno if “she’s amazing” is the typo or “he is a guest” is.

• Syria, 1949
• Egypt 1952 (possibly—at the very least prior knowledge of the coup)
• 1952 Iran
• 1954 Guatemala
• 1960 Laos
• 1961 Dominic Republic
• 1965 Indonesia
• 1973 Chile
• 1975 Australia (this one’s the most controversial on the list because of the US’s long friendly relationship with the country. If the CIA was involved, it was by encouraging the abuse of existing constitutional powers rather than a direct military coup as in most examples.)

That’s just a list of successful coups I could find quickly on Wikipedia that were clearly backed by the CIA during the Cold War. There were other failed attempts, including multiple 1950s in Syria and Indonesia and, yes, Cuba. And other successful coups where the US was definitely involved but it’s not clear to me from a cursory look that it was via the CIA specifically, like 1971 Bolivia and 1976 Argentina. And there have obviously been CIA actions in the time since.

I think the key fact is that in almost no cases did the CIA singlehandedly do a coup. They supported people on the ground who already wanted to do a coup to make their attempted coup more likely to succeed, and to ensure that they’d be friendly to the US afterwards if they did succeed.

Wow, this lyric actually works better than the original, thanks to the near rhyme between walk and fuck.

Like many other admirer’s of Nabokov’s novel of a pedophile who pursues a 12-year-old girl, Rowling loves it for the writing style.

Oh ok, fair enough. Not an especially controversial take.

"There just isn’t enough time to discuss how a plot…becomes…a great and tragic love story

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This is how I feel about leftists who join ostensibly “centre-left” parties, in countries that don’t use FPTP.

Like the “Labor Left” wing of the Labor Party in Australia. Guys, you’d be doing so much better work in the Greens.

When I hear an American with the caught/cot merger say “caught”, it sounds way more similar to my (unmerged) “cot” than my “caught”

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Oh neat, thanks. I wonder when that use fell out of favour.

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Another fun one today!

Well, Texas is located right next to Dthinna Dthinnawan National Park and Sundown National Park, as well as several State Forests.

Thank goodness 4-chan is there

Isn’t this Tumblr?

I don’t love the way it has to tear down the other characters in order to prop up the one. Surely the message could have been gotten across in a more wholesome way?

Very popular Netflix show. Other than that, the only thing I know about it is that the paladin in the D&D movie is in it.

That chart says Vietnam is a mix of 220 and 127 V at 50 Hz. There might be some places that use 127 V, but it’s certainly not anywhere close to an equal split. Everywhere I saw had 220 V.

Bruh I’m comfortable building my own PCs and that still sounds way more effort than just buying an external optical drive with USB interface.

Next time go ahead and do it! I post it when I get around to it, usually around 1–3pm my time, but today was very delayed because I wasn’t at my PC until 9pm. I avoid posting before noonish my time to minimise the overlap with US users being active and on the previous day, but after that point if anyone else beats me to it, that’s awesome.

Happy cake day!