Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister of the UK after 45 days. She will continue to serve until replaced... possibly some time next week, assuming the Conservative Party can find somebody acceptable to the party who wants the job.

Truss replaced Boris Johnson as PM, who replaced Theresa May, who replaced David Cameron. (Remember David Cameron? He actually got the job in an election, as opposed to being appointed by the party.)

The previous record for "shortest time as Prime Minister of the UK" was held by Andrew Bonar Law, who served for 209 days in 1922-3. Three of the ten shortest terms as PM are or were held by Truss, Johnson, and May.

Alaskan Snow Crab fishing season cancelled

Alaskan Snow Crab winter fishing season was officially cancelled as 90% of the population has vanished in the last two years (~ 1 billion crab).  Current belief is climate change effects as no signs of disease so far in the ones they've found.

I was copying something over from GDocs, and for whatever reason, when I posted, it added a butt ton of line breaks between paragraphs, then added more every time I tried to edit it. Anyone know what's causing it, and how I could avoid it in future? 'Don't use Gdocs' will get a trout thrown at you

I'm wondering exactly what this "WWII American Tank" is. (That particular digital-model store has a deep aversion to actually giving something its real-world name, which is usually justifiable because those are trademarks, but in this case makes no sense because it's a freaking public domain US Government name.)

I expect that there are enough promotional images for somebody who knows his (or her) tanks to be able to identify which kind of tank this is...

Quote:On this planet, they called it the monomyth, but it had other names among the multitude of races in the galaxy.  Some called it the "tale of tales", while others called it "the path passing the gods."  But the elements of the story of a hero's journey remained astonishingly similar across nearly all of the races that Dr. Washuu Hakubi had encountered.  And the ones that didn't?  Well, they were all an exceedingly tedious lot, whose cultures' only story tended to be along the lines of "we will gloriously exterminate everyone else."  Dreadfully boring, and boringly dreadful, she believed.

She had first come to investigate this field of inquiry while thinking about Tenchi Masaki, which was the favorite pastime in the household where she had found herself the past few months.  All of the women there, without exception, had a romantic interest in Tenchi, but Washuu additionally had an academic interest, too.  It had started as a scientific investigation, as she assessed how his power had developed.  But as she began reading the literature of his home planet for fun, she began to see similarities in those stories to Tenchi's experiences, and to other stories from distant worlds.  And soon, she found her research reaching deep into the humanities.

Perhaps her research would have stayed in the humanities, if she hadn't noticed the letters.

Netcarrier had some kind of fiber break, which they apparently just completed fixing a bit over half an hour ago as I type this. So, yes, the forums were down, but I'm glad to say they're back now, with a whole lot less fuss than the last two times they disappeared.

Five different political parties made decent if not spectacular showings in the popular vote during the 2022 provincial election in Quebec.

Four different political parties had candidates who were actually elected.

According to Wikipedia:

• Coalition Avenir Québec: 40.98% of the popular vote, 72% of the seats.
  
• Liberal: 14.37% of the popular vote, 17% of the seats.
  
• Québec solidaire: 15.43% of the popular vote, 9% of the seats.
  
• Parti Québécois: 14.61% of the popular vote, 2% of the seats.
  
• Conservative: 12.91% of the popular vote, 0% of the seats.
  

Just before I woke up this morning, I was dreaming I was in a casual restaurant discussing... something, I have no clue what now... with Robkelk. There were TVs in the dining room running music videos. And in the last moments before I woke up, the one closest to us starting running the video for a collaboration between Nightwish and Olivia Newton-John. And it was good. I just wish I could remember it.

That's all. You can go back to whatever you were doing.

Issue #25 here.

So we can keep proper continuity, we repeat Robkelk's post at the end of the last thread:

(09-28-2022, 07:14 PM)robkelk Wrote: We've secretly replaced Lucius Fox with Lucius Malfoy. Let's see who notices.