that’s so mean. just call them “politicians” like the rest of the world do.

separately, imdb itself has been enshittified enough that, most times, i don’t want the imdb page as a search result.

sometimes, one thinks, any intelligence for government would be a good idea.

would it be about control? a fantasy about having access to a modernised version of a slave who is bound to do the protagonist’s oft-perverted bidding with reduced rights of their own?

you do know that you are technically dead-naming, right?

thanks to them for making my deredditification that much easier!

in this part of the world, we are blessed with stray dogs who are also protected by our supreme court. it’s quite literally against the law, for example, to prohibit the feeding of strays by animal lovers.

i once saw one of them shudder and whine at the sound of fireworks. its tail scrunched under and it pissed itself in fear and confusion. its plaintive moans were drowned out by the incessant blasts of the “mala” crackers (a literal garland of 10,000 or so crackers strung out in sequence that goes on bursting for an hour or so). the poor thing just did not know what was happening and it became a shivering ball of anxiety until the blasts stopped.

anyone who sees an innocent animal suffer like that will never, ever, want to light a firecracker again.

I’m a mirror. if you’re nice to me, I’m nice to you. if not, well…

did the site allow ranking of politicians or billionaires?

i am ashamed to say that i have driven when drunk. this was over a decade ago and i don’t remember the 13km trip taken late at night.

i am thankful that the car was found intact on inspection the next morning and i hadn’t hit anybody.

but that was the last time i drove drunk. i was a prize idiot to do so–as is anyone else who does so.

the scenes when one won’t be able to choose 5318008.

there are a few time trackers on f-droid that seem to fit thia requirement.

“a time tracker” is one.

he kept trying to climb up not realising that he was getting deeper and deeper.

Tell me what sort of quality education you would get if your university class had increased by 2/3rd in size?

this is a valid point, but it’s not a point i see junior doctors striking for. it’s not like the quality of education that a country offers after they’ve graduated would weigh so heavily on their minds.

occam’s razor applies here. they are worried that there will suddenly be an influx of new doctors that will reduce their own earning capacity.

your point on expanding facilities first won’t help end the strike since it doesn’t address the core problem. the government should simply look to sneakily boil the frog here (and this is only because being the last in a list of doctor:patient ratio is never a good thing).

i put this question to my cat while parading naked in front of it.

i got no response other than a look of utter disdain.

it wouldnt, sure. and im not referring to those inconsistencies at all.

when it comes the dates specifically observed in the article though, as anyone who’s worked with Excel will attest, date calculation errors cannot be ruled out until they are explicitly, well, ruled out.

it very much is in the realm of possibility that all other data is accurate and date errors still manifest themselves.

what are the chances that it’s the default MS Excel date of 01/01/1900 in most cases?

the 942 year old guy could be a mangled date format? maybe someone whose date was to have been recorded as October 1981 and the 10 and 81 got stored as the year?

yeah I’d rule out MS Excel date errors before really buying the conclusions in thia article.

i don’t see how this is going to play out in the long term, though. the right wing fervour in the country has been stoked primarily by this “mosque x temple issue”, and modi’s party has actually ridden this horse through the democratic process over the last three decades to “success” – yes, make no mistake, democracy has not failed in india. the majority of voters are really that fervent in their championing of “hindutva”.

but with the denouement of this chapter, they will no longer have the temple as a north star. they will no longer have this major unifying factor. this, in a way, is terrifying simply because the go-to fallback of this government to rally their voters into line is aggression towards pakistan.

with both countries pointing nuclear warheads at each other, this could have severe repercussions for the region and the world at large.

just an inquiry out of curiosity: why are more people not using Gimp? does PS really offer so much more?

(this is more an aside to the conversation in the OP, and as such is not meant to derail the query asked within. nor is it an attempt to pass judgement on anyone.)

well, that’s nice. at least, in the years to come, we’ll get to bask in a great big hot tub before we drive ourselves to extinction.