The BBC reported that India has struck several targets in Pakistan. Packistan has vowed retaliation. I pray cooler heads prevail instead of the situation escalating further.

1. BL: Note that in 2016, Harvey Weinstein being a serial perv was not yet common knowledge, but it certainly wasn't a secret in the industry.  I have at least one friend who was subjected to an inappropriate encounter with him, and I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't the only one.
   
2. BL: These are actually the real directions from the Tonight Show studios in Burbank to the canals in Venice.  Numbered freeways were invented after all of the L.A. freeways were named.
   
3. BL: Forks are Mahiro's weapon of choice in Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, which is basically what you'd get if you took Urusei Yatsura and swapped Japanese mythology for the Cthulhu Mythos.
   
4. BL: If you're unfamiliar with the sketches, go search for "Art Fern" on YouTube, the comedy holds up very well despite some dated references. I wrote this after watching a few of the "Movie Tea Time" skits, since I was a bit too young to have stayed up late for the Tonight Show back when Johnny hosted.
   

Usually, something that has an attribute can be described with the adjective form of the name of that attribute.

But it's stories that don't have pathos that are pathetic.

Linguistic drift can do some funny things.

This has been happening for two years, but I only learned about it today.

In order to address the shortage of nurses and paramedics, the province of Ontario pays the tuition, books, and course fees of Ontario residents taking Practical Nursing or Paramedic programs at many Ontario colleges and universities. One has to commit to work where one takes the courses (which means Toronto is not included in this scholarship program at all, and paramedic students only qualify for a scholarship north of North Bay).

You get more nurses in under-served areas by training them in those areas.

We've all met them. But how would you describe him?


1: If he thought hard enough and really applied himself, he might actually be useful as a hundred watt space heater


2: He's firing on all cylinders, but they're all firing after top dead centre.


3: His power factor is basically zero. There's a lot of back and forth, but very little actually gets done.

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter, by Tim Berners-Lee

Yes, it's a year old. It's still worth a read.

I'm banned user HLIAA14YOG from AllTheTropes. I'm just here to try to make an appeal for my ban since the discussion for my ban was done here when I had no account; in fact, I did not even know the site existed until I read my ban message where there was a link to this site.

The reason I'm using a different username is because honestly I'm embarassed by the one I use in ATT but too lazy to get a name change. I was in what people call these days an "edgy phase" back when I chose my username. 

I do write fanfics and original fiction on AO3 under a username called (sigh) InsideA14YearOldGirl. My honest opinion is that they're horrible and I'm ashamed of how my most notable work there is a pornographic incest story, though it was written by request of another user. I keep writing there because I barely have any hobbies and at least it keeps my mind out of doing dangerous things to myself (like taking drugs or drinking alcohol like my father).

I do have a problem with being rude, in real life and outside of it (though people only see to talk behind my back and never tell me I'm being rude unless they're my college psychologist; I often only discover how much people hate me months later when a third-party tells me what they talked about me); and for trying to seek information about the most obscure things if at least I think there is some quality on them; that is why I watch and read so many japanese things, because Japan is as far away from my native country of Brazil as it can gets.