They do, yes. I’m just doing a variant of the “I’m no geologist but (says things that have nothing to do with geology)” meme 😁

Absolutely!

I’m no lepidopterist, but from context I’d guess that it is indeed Nero.

A much maligned Roman emperor, Nero supposedly (but almost certainly not actually) haughtily played some instrument or the other during the Great Fire of Rome.

Hence, “burning a CD-ROM” is easily associated with him even though the story is almost certainly not true and “ROM” (read only memory) was the suffix of the CDs that COULDN’T be burned 🤷

Yeah alright, that’s fair 😁

Which ones would that be?

I genuinely can’t think of anything I can drink with a straw that I wouldn’t rather drink without one 🤷

You mean prehistoric mountain stream, right?

Nero Burning Rom was a popular program for burning CDs

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He won the primary so they have to run him. They’ve still unofficially backed Cuomo and even Adams, though, and all of the NY Dem leadership were either late in endorsing him or haven’t yet.

He won the primary in a surprise landslide against the establishment favorite and they’ve been sulking ever since.

In contrast, Adams won his primary by a tiny margin and they were falling over each other to declare him “the future of the party” the very next day.

That was nice of him! Thanks, Maillard!

Classic IOC behavior: refusing to sanction a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide, but immediately ostracizing any country that does 🤦🤬

It’s got what plants crave!

Counterpoint: there’s no such thing as a ghoti

Dick aim? 🤔

I hardly knew 'im!

But I’m looking at something else

That’s not true at all. For roughly 70 years, being fully fascist was very much a fringe thing that you’d be shunned by normal people for. Even the most callous paleoconservatives would categorically shun any Nazi or other openly fascist person.

Then decades of gradual and accelerating rightward drifting of the Overton Window (for which the Democrats’ ineptitude as the SUPPOSED opposition party bear a lot of the responsibility) and normalization of outright lying as a political strategy inevitably led to a fascist demagogue like the Mango Mussolini and now fascism is the new mainstream “conservatism”.

In the spinoff Gen V, they even have

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Except for all three branches being taken over by a fascist kakistocracy that ignores and invents laws at will and with absolute impunity, you mean? Sure.

I’d argue that it constitutes a pretty significant change, though.

Appointing anyone without the consent of Jericho Johnson might be de jure allowed and valid, but since it’s against the wishes of the fascist regime, it’s de facto not going to be allowed.