pied-à-terre

A secondary or temporary place of lodging. Smaller temporary or secondary lodging; a second home.

For those, like me, who’ve never encountered that term before.

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Ah, fans of the Divergent series.

It’s called a ‘thorne’ (I think) and it is an archaic form of ‘th’.

Ol’ big ears African elephant stealing the thunder…

I’m beginning to think that these are just being shoved in front of the orange idiot and he signs them, completely oblivious to what’s going on around him.

It’s a tale as old as time.

I wonder if it’s normalised for other factors, insurance companies would know.

Do drivers of black cars drive more aggressively?

Is black a more common colour for higher performance cars?

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

Mathew 5:6

Fuck anyone who advertises their Christianity.

There’s already a hat emoji.

That actually sounds like a good test.

Question is, is there an elephant Unicode character?

I bet these same people always voted for the counselors running on the ‘low rates’ ticket.

Back in the before times we called that a ‘dividend’ and the company would pay you one of they did business well and made profit.

Then the dark times came and the ‘speculators’ arrived, caring not for the dividend but for the price itself. Expecting it to go ever on up. The dividend was forgotten.

Business didn’t have to be good and profitable it just had to have ‘promise’ and ‘venture’. They propped each other up, made their prices up. Each leaning on each other with no foundation each nor to share. They cared not, for they had a ‘system’ and means already their own to sustain themselves.

The people looked on in horror, knowing the ‘bubble’ must burst in the air and not settle gently to the ground and rest easy. Power they had not, only the ‘sight’ of their incoming doom.

Discord from MLPFIM checks out.

If you’re not doing high speed trading arbitrage you can’t make that money back.

Exactly. It is lower latency.

You’re moving the goal posts now to the problem being commercial viability for a subset of activity.

This was stupider and funnier than I expected.

Lasers in space are speed of light in a vacuum which it considerably faster than speed of light in a fibre.

Someone rises to power who doesn’t care about the consequences to their own nation.

Uuuh, about that.

There’s even a shit sith lord angling to be emperor for life.