My Italian isn't great, but I'm pretty sure the upper-right soldier (with the arquebus) is French, and the first sentence says he's from one of the first French expeditions, to Florida and Georgia.
Have you shown your nephew one of the animated Robocop series yet?
“The Third Place has never been defined solely by a physical space, it’s also the feeling of warmth, connection, a sense of belonging,” states a 2022 blog post on the Starbucks website. The post explains that the company’s mobile apps create a sense of community and that machines like the Clover Vertica will reduce the complexity of labour for their partners (employees), “enabling stronger engagement and connection between our partners and the customers they serve.”
Starbucks has a weird way of looking at the world.
I agree with the point of this piece; public libraries are awesome.
I visited Portland as a kid in the late 90s. Everybody was really cool and down-to-earth, but one thing I noticed was how normalized outdoor spitting was. Like one time I saw an attractive person across the street, and we were checking each other out, and then they leaned over and spat while maintaining eye contact. I'm pretty sure there was no communicative intent, they just needed to spit.
I dunno, I bet it'd be OK as background if you turned the sound off and just played NIN's "Ghosts" instead. Wait no I take it back, those actors just plain look annoying.
You may be thinking of 'Pataphysics:
the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the latter's limitations, extending as far beyond metaphysics as the latter extends beyond physics
Maybe he can get a bot to do time for him.
"LL Cool J is hard as HELL!" Yeah, I was starvin like Marvin for a Cool J song. Got to listen to 6 Minutes of Pleasure next.
Surrealism is always antifascist.
I dunno. Doublethink is pretty surreal, but it supports fascism. If you're just talking about art, I think you could make the case that the Italian Futurists were at least Surrealist-adjacent, and some of them supported fascism.
I watched that gif like 10 times, hypnotized, until I even noticed the bottle-top coming off.
According to various pages online, this represents:
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It's a little confusing because both sides had a "1st Maryland" unit at Gettysburg, and the Confederate 1st Maryland was renamed (and is often called) the 2nd Maryland. I think the relevant wikipedia page is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Maryland_Infantry_Regiment_(Confederate)#Battle_of_Gettysburg