It’s just the headline for this one. The rest of the article is more serious and less ironic.

The letter arrived yesterday.

I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.

Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.

Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.

Honestly no

Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00

Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?

Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.

Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.

It was two days ago.

19th June

American flag checks out.

You know what? You’re right.

Oh my god…

Holy mother of god. He’ll be wearing a little red armband next!

Privacy, for one thing. I don’t use Google, Bing, Windows, or any Meta software*, and Yandex aren’t much different.

Security, though, is another thing. I live in a NATO country, and I would imagine the Russian government are monitoring Yandex (and other RUnet services). Frankly, I think contributing any data to such a government would be against my interests.

There’s also a lot of censorship on RUnet. Yeah, Google has that too, but Mojeek and Brave Search do not.

TL;DR: Google is data-hungry and supplies data to the NSA; Yandex is data-hungry and supplies data to the Kremlin; Mojeek and Brave Search are good; DDG and Startpage are the best for the average user.

I rarely have to use it, but for me it works every time.

I don’t even care if the results are good. I’m not about to use any part of RUnet.

Amateurs! It’s gotta be silver!

• Looks nice in jewellery
• Antimicrobial properties
• An essential component of camera film
• Highly conductive (e.g. used for electrodes and thermal paste in computing)
• Catalyst in many chemical reactions
• Used to make mirrors
• A critical component of solar panels
• The only metal capable of incapacitating werewolves, and also somewhat effective against vampires

Fair enough.

You are absolutely correct. The stupidity here, though, is that word got out that Trump uses them, and that has caused a lot of his supporters to start wearing them, whether they need to or not.

Nooo! Wally!!! I sure hope they find that adorable 'gator!

Yes, but the policy that requires voters to have photo ID was created by Boris himself when he was prime minister. That’s the irony.