That was my immediate guess, but Covid blew up in March, and the Reddit graph doesn’t go crazy until a few months later. It is hard to see what else could possibly explain it though; I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s just an error in the axis labelling or something.

What the hell happened in the second half of 2020?

What makes you say the proposal was unpopular among First Nations people? The few pre-referendum polls of indigenous Australians seemed to indicate that the majority were in favour.

While it’s true that the imbeciles in our (UK) government have tried to implicitly outlaw E2EE, there are no restrictions on VPNs here.

So glad someone’s finally come up with a rebuttal.

I was wondering why the researchers hadn’t released any pictures of this newly discovered language, but on careful re-reading I realise it was transcribed in cunieform… so to me it would be totally indistinguishable from any other Hittite tablet.

I like to take shrs

I like Hadoop.

This is the sanest Spectator article I’ve ever read.

The ham and pineapple work fine; the problem is pineapple and cheese.

Or, they’ve found a viable way to disguise donated long-range missiles so they can be used to strike back at Russia without implicating the country that provided them.

Do you both build creatures?

They’re not made-up words, they’re place names.

Octal refers to base eight. If we followed the convention it would be the eighth-final.

We always say “Zee Zee Top” - I think there’s a sort of unspoken acceptance that they’ve earnt it. But you sometimes hear people say “Jay-Zed”, normally as a bit of gentle mockery.

The only thing that’s worth more than your money is your time.

It sounds like he wants relations to be normalised by means of Algeria recognising Western Sahara as part of Morocco. Good luck with that.

I’d kinda feel uncomfortable calling it an “n-turn”.