While Britain participated in the slave trade, they went out of their way to not do so in Britain; the slaveholders kept their slaves abroad and out of sight, in places where the laws of civilisation which rule such institutions to be obscene are waived. (Sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean were one such place.) And it was impolite to inquire too hard about the sources of fortunes that built stately homes.

The difference being that when the N-word was uttered in Britain, it was belittling and condescending in an exoticising way, like a colonial-era picture book of funny foreigners in their traditional costumes. In America, however, it had a more immediate edge of aggression and violence, implying an other that’s here rather than far away, and firmly below the speaker in the established racial hierarchy, and who must be kept there using tools including designating them as a (N-word).

Step 1. Feed coin into slot machine

Step 2. Pull lever

Step 3. Congratulations! You are now an open-source developer

The word carried somewhat less of a charge in the UK at the time, where black people were relatively uncommon until waves of labour migration from the Caribbean in the 1950s, than in the US, where it was freighted with the weight of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow laws and such. Agatha Christie could call a book “10 Little N_s”, alluding to a children’s rhyme. This was an age in which the children who casually sang that rhyme probably had golliwog dolls.

( looks at harried, sleep-deprived parent wrangling four squawling children into a minivan) “This person fucks.”

Tabloid newspapers in the UK have a tendency to run headlines about some random thing found to either cause or cure cancer, only revealing in the text that it’s in cell cultures/lab mice or otherwise a long way from actionable lifestyle advice. There was an issue of the Daily Mail which apparently claimed the same thing to both crude and cure cancer, in two separate articles.

Anybody stealing one would be disappointed, as, like all wildcats other than F. sylvestris (the nearest wild relative of the domestic cat), they’d be too paranoid and aggressive to be domesticable.

Everyone gets off at the slutstation

Not only a serial killer but also a cat burglar, pickpocket, arsonist and numerous other crimes. A regular Doktorin Mabuse.

Is this still being built?

“Here I will confess that I was anticipating the Schwebebahn to be a novelty, more of a gimmick than a real transit route, like Los Angeles’s Angels Flight funicular or San Francisco’s cable cars… I was immediately proven incorrect”

Tell me you’re American without saying you’re American.

Well, women want fish (and me fear me)

Isn’t that basically a summary of Russian history?

Vibe-coded?

He looks very dapper in his tuxedo

Under the US Constitution as interpreted by the Citizens United ruling, it probably would legally be a civil rights violation. Quite possibly the only kind actively prosecuted these days.

But can you lick lycanthropy?

Can it emulate SIXAXIS functionality with the gyroscopes in other controllers such as the Steam Deck?

Soon after this, you start seeing more ads for alcohol, gambling sites and religious cults, as the algorithm flags you as a potentially lucrative prospect.

The only thing a true Melburnian would use instant coffee for

Nude models from the 1890s when someone’s gaze lingers on their daguerreotypes slightly too long in an antiquarian shop.