The article makes it sound like the issue wasn’t the connection to slaves: that was expected. It sounds like the original plan was to offer reparations to the descendants, but there turned out to be so many the finance department of Harvard completely freaked out.

One of the 3 closest EU major international airports. Other 2 are in Greece and Bulgaria. Not sure exactly why Romania and not Greece or Bulgaria, but it is a logical choice.

If you’re interested, the short version is that instances (A.K.A servers) are run by different people in different places. A reason to move instances might be:

1. My admin, the owner of the instance, has been doing things I heavily disagree with (bans, blocks, etc)

2. I don’t agree with the rules on my instance.

3. The instance is run in a country which criminalizes something that I care about, and so has to ban discussion of that thing (piracy, porn, etc).

4. I want to run a community on a specific instance for whatever reason, and so need an account there

/me eating popcorn as a nano user

That’s not how the word is commonly used though. In common parlance, everyone understands “anti-Semitic” to mean “anti-Jew”, even though that’s not what it means etymologically.

Disclaimer: being pro-palestinian does not necessarily mean you’re anti-Semitic, was just talking descriptive vs prescriptive vocabulary here.

My younger cat taught me to play fetch with her. She finds a receipt or other small bit of paper, brings it to me, and wants me to crumple it into a ball. Then, after throwing it, she brings it back and drops it at my feet. This normally continues about 10-20 times until she gets bored or loses the paper.

Incidentally, I guess? Still a powerful neoliberal female leader. This was written based on Thatcher.

Don’t you think she looks tired?

I have a sneaking suspicion that that Palestinian carpenter wasn’t just a commie, but also a Jew!

How do you know this is the US, rather than UK, AU, NZ or a British school in the EU?

EDIT: Looked at the original file linked here in the comments, and it makes reference to “HCPSS”, which according to a Google search means this is in Maryland. Your assumption seems to have been correct!

There’s also the issue that the US needs to sell bonds at higher and higher yields just to convince them it’s worth the risk.

As far as I understand it (not an economist), that might lead to a debt spiral.

In terms of amazing new games, Terra Invicta is eating all my free time. I’m losing over and over because it’s a sprawling beast of a grand strategy game, but still fascinating to poke around and see how deep the rabbithole goes.

STOP BOYCOT

FASCISM TESLA

Switzerland or Finland?

My unfounded guess is that they sell products that normally compete with a soon to be crippled US market, so their products can fill the void. Think car sales from China to the EU after the tarrifs cripple manufacturing, for example.

I think for name recognition and not scaring off Americans who run in fear from the s word, maybe it should be called the Progressive Party?

Depends how you do it. If you get professionals to do it, yes, it gets very expensive very quickly. I know some people that renovated their own place. Took upwards of a year on what would be a 1 month job if they had hired professionals, but it got done slowly but surely at a fraction of the cost.

A nominal fee from a heavily discounted sale is still more than spending money on a demolition.

Why would they demolish houses rather than selling them? Makes no economic sense.

There’s no reason to believe that a formerly homeless person wouldn’t put in the effort on a house restoration project if given the chance to live in it permanently.