Morning people, in my experience at least, firmly believe that night people are just morning people with insufficient self-discipline.

This is just monetising incels, isn't it?

Turns out this is false, the actual story is much better: https://www.vice.com/...

What does 'lock in' mean in this situation?

Yours faithfully,

a confused Brit.

caught in an economic perfect storm

It's nobody's fault, just economic weather. Just bad luck. Nothing to do with corporate capture of the political process whatsoever.

Oh sweet summer child, your dad knows parts of the internet you have barely seen in your dreams.

I used to be able to tell what refresh rate they were set to because everything below a certain point flickered. I'd ask people why their screens were flickering and they couldn't see it.

And in news that surprised absolutely no one...

“Chronic cannabis use makes you stupid, to put it bluntly, and can also cause psychosis,” Thomas Fischbach, president of a German federation of doctors for children and adolescents (BVKJ), told the Die Welt newspaper.

Meanwhile, at Oktoberfest...

The drunken debauchery often leads to fights, aggressive behavior, and bierleichen — so-called "beer corpses," which is what locals call the many passed out drunks lying on the hill behind the tents.

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There isn't light at the end of the tunnel, it's another train coming.

What on earth is going on with that picture? Apparently the main source is this picture here.

Who processed it and why?

Silly human, the cat isn't glaring down the camera. It's glaring at whoever he can see on the screen.

Quite rightly.

This could have been an email instead and he knows it.

What is it with real estate developers and MAGA views?

This isn't about kids and it isn't about abortion it's about limiting people's access to unmediated information. The Democrats have just as much to lose as the Republicans if a third party which is a lesser evil than either emerges. Or, seeing as this is America we're talking about, greater evil.

Whatever. They don't want people being able to just organise themselves as they please online.

The meth was probably driving.

Brit here, all the windows in my flat have this system.

Twenty hours in and it's up to me to remind people that Dolly Parton is the full package?

• She's got tunes, OK 'I Will Always Love You' is a bit cloying but the rumour is that she also wrote Jolene the same day
• She supports other women. When porn star Julia Parton was around and telling people that she was Dolly's cousin, Dolly's public response was something like, 'She ain't my cousin but I can't condemn what she does... it's not like I ever tried to hide my breasts. Good luck to her.'
• She produced Buffy The Vampire Slayer through her production company Sanddollar. She kept a low profile publicly but behind the scenes was very supportive of the show because it provided good role models for young women.
• She funds the Dolly Parton Imagination library which mails free books to kids under five.

Well what it 'proves' to them is that mankind is supposed to follow the exact same routine that works for them. My Dad was forever saying "Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Died when he was 45.

After a lengthy introduction, Pastor David Netzorg — who founded Emmaus Church in Winter Garden, Florida in 2011 — took the podium to start the board meeting on Wednesday night, said government work is "a calling" and government employees "actually work for God."

That whole separation of Church and State is looking more and more like the twin cheeks of the same arse, isn't it?

Edit: it actually gets worse...

"So we're to obey the police, firefighters, government, all of those in authority" Netzorg offered as commentary.

The divine right of cops. I think the US is headed for a dark place. Darker place, I should probably say.