Lego buying BL was always a mistake. TLG will always do what's best for TLG, not necessarily what's best for the marketplace. That's not a ding in the company... Any company would protect their interest. But they put themselves in this position when they decided to own their secondary market.

This remains one of my all time favorite sf stories.

*Notes that Homan and Noem must have screwed up BIGLY to be praised by Dear Leader. I don't even need to look it up to know they've perpetrated some (more) heinous idiocy.

Always amusing when reich-wingers (who wall off their safe spaces with industrial-strength shields) complain about not being able to "debate" non-conservatives. Maybe if conserva-subReddits allowed non-MAGA users to engage...? I dunno, just a thought.

And if you're wondering where this was sourced and why it has tariffs applied: Latin America.

They won't stop with disappearing brown people. Once the totalitarian state is set up, it has to keep feeding the machine to keep everyone else in line. Eventually "undesirables" like liberals, journalists, and anyone not sufficiently MAGA will get rounded up and evaporated.

And the absolute best party isn't even on camera... There's a Tesla dealership right next door, which has to stink like tear gas for days after.

Holy crap, I just realized I never replied to you on this! Yeah, Kate is very expressive and she's your girl for goth, glam, and everything in between. And I hear she can sing, too.

Great, now I may have to attend. Look what you made me do.

I'm about 900% certain this is exactly what Elon's kiddie scripter DOGE incels and ICE gestapo intend to do.

No, it's not real code. Yes, it's malformed and mixed language on purpose.

I recall Spider Robinson saying pretty much the same thing. IIRC, he put it like, "A critic tells you if it's art, a reviewer tells you if it's any damn good to read."