This American Life and Heavyweight

Two-horse chariot races (bigae) were held in the Campus Martius, the area of Rome named for Mars, after which the right-hand horse of the winning team was transfixed by a spear, then sacrificed. The horse’s head (caput) and tail (cauda) were cut off and used separately in the two subsequent parts of the ceremonies: two neighborhoods staged a fight for the right to display the head, and the freshly bloodied cauda was carried to the Regia for sprinkling the sacred hearth of Rome.

Alrighty then

Perhaps you moved from Europe to the States in the interim like I did.

Edit to add: sorry if this came off as snarky, was not my intention. Just wanted to point out that it’s not always so clear-cut. I created my Reddit account in 2008 when I lived in the Netherlands. Then I moved to the US in 2016 and became a citizen in 2019.

Are you me? Because that sounds just like me. I can’t make it through the day without an afternoon nap and have heart palpitations at night. All this started after a bout of covid in early 2021 right before vaccines were available.

Good. They stole this man’s life. The evidence that exonerated him was available to the people involved with his protection 30 years ago. Insane that it took this long.

This stuff just makes my blood boil. Those 3 assholes on the parole board are complete sociopaths. There’s absolutely no justice here.

Sure thing!

Since no one in this thread mentioned it: Thunder is also great, open source and free.

The game is “Street Fighter II”, in case you have a senior moment like I did.

If you’re on Android and use Firefox, you can use the Disable JavaScript extension to disable JS on sites with paywalls, like NYtimes. While not perfect, it works remarkably well.

Also works great on Desktop.

Excellent suggestion and a good way to keep social media consumption in check.

There’s this: https://github.com/iBicha/playlet

But I haven’t quite figured out how to use it yet.

Huh, I thought Teddit was dead due to the apicalypse. Glad to see it’s still kicking.

And nothing of value was lost.

I’ve installed the Android version of Firefox on my wife’s Chromebook via the Google Play store. There’s also a way to enable Linux within ChromeOS and install the more full fledged version of FF.

See: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/chromebook/

I set up a streaming radio station with a looped recording of my cat purring. She died in 2018. This way she’d always be purring somewhere in the ether.

Miss you, Choupie.

Thank you for including RSS feeds in your post! Note that the Tapas one appears to be broken.

Edit: and also thank you for your comics, I always look forward to them.

"Inadvertently, during the state account’s reconfiguring process, the default setting of ‘zero draft email’ was chosen,” a DOC spokesperson told The Appeal. “This was simply a technical/technician mistake and once realized, it was corrected.”

While the ability to save drafts was restored, the damage was already done. Securus told The Appeal that the deleted drafts were not recoverable. “The e-message draft option is not intended for long term storage,” a Securus spokesperson added in an email to The Appeal.

Wow. Any tech can make a mistake, but this is why you make backups beforehand. This was completely avoidable or at least reversible. And then to have such a douchy response, and even try to shift the blame? That just adds insult to injury.

Their OLED panels are top notch, so don’t sleep on it. Just get a separate streaming device as the experience on Roku, Android TV and Apple TV is just miles better.

RIP Unofficial NYTimes paywall bypass by disabling JavaScript :(