What do you do if it comes up positive? Presumably if you know it’s a risk, you’d leave your phone in airplane mode or at home, and if you know it’s happening you’ve already been recorded?

No, but he thinks another soldier did. It’s a bit of a grim tale (though that page doesn’t cite its sources, so take this with a grain of salt):

the kitten was one of two who were orphaned after a soldier shot their mother for “yeowling”. The marine who adopted the other kitten killed it after rolling over on it in his sleep.

But Praytor’s kitten survived. He fed her on meat from ration cans. After Praytor left her to return home, she became something of a mascot for the company’s public information office. Praytor believed another marine, corporal Conrad Fisher, eventually adopted her and brought her home to the United States.

Edit: this history enthusiast’s page corroborates the story with a citation of Frank D. Praytor, “The Commandant and the Cat,” The Greybeards 23, no. 3 (May-June 2009): 30-31, 65

Indeed, the coins are broken off the resulting “coin tree” and then cleaned up by filing. The edges and details stand proud. Searching for “ban liang mold” will show other similar Chinese molds.

Oh, I was kidding just to sound like I had an explanation and then throw the orange in as an afterthought. It does look like a reference, though.

If you’re running a place like this, you’re likely to want to reduce your liability risk as much as possible, I imagine. Doubly so in as litigious a country as the USA.

It’s a visual reference to Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer, with the addition of an orange.

You don’t think it might be an F7A?

Yeah, DDG have a pretty good reputation for privacy and reliability, although there have been small controversies in the past. They mainly use Bing, plus their own crawler and direct data sources where applicable.

Brave’s not the only search engine to do this, but it’s just one of a million reasons not to use Brave. They’re a scummy company. From this Reddit post:

In 2016, Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners

In the same year, CEO Brendan Eich unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.

In 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.

In 2020, Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.

Also in 2020, they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: “the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression.”

In 2021, Brave’s TOR window was found leaking DNS queries, and a patch was only widely deployed after articles called them out.

In 2022, Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.

In 2023, Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users’ computers without their consent.

Also in 2023, Brave got caught scraping and reselling people’s data with their custom web crawler, which was designed specifically not to announce itself to website owners.

In 2024, Brave gave up on providing advanced fingerprint protection, citing flawed statistics (people who would enable the protection would likely disable Brave telemetry).

In 2025, Brave staff publish an article endorsing PrivacyTests and say they “work with legitimate testing sites” like them. This article fails to disclose PrivacyTests is run by a Brave Senior Architect.

I’m confused, what was the injury? Did you launch the rock into the air and it came straight back down?

Funnily enough, the photo they’ve chosen to run alongside the article is of the aftermath of a suspected Russian-funded sabotage of an munition depot in Kalynivka, Ukraine, on September 27th 2017.

Great question! What got you thinking about the animal you'd like to be?

So they also have to imitate his illiterate misuse of title case for Important Words, random quotation marks for “emphasis”, and littering of SHOUTY WORDS, not to mention his bizarre self-aggrandized tone and his ridiculous ways of ending messages that he thinks makes them look more important? Thank you for your attention to this matter.

doing a deadthrough

*undeadthrough

Nor can I in this light, but here’s the court judgment record, which details everything that this article has quoted, so it’s not imaginary.

I’m late to the party, but speaking of the Bayeux Tapestry, modern archeology has never found any convincing evidence of the Battle of Hastings either, despite the battleground being fairly well historically indicated. It’s even led to speculation – generally dismissed by scholars – that the battle didn’t happen near the site of the abbey that was meant to have been constructed on be spot.

Happy Indepedence Day! Because you can write “independence” without three Ns!

(Their) women who have become masters in their duties:
High priestesses who keep (their) vow to their bridegrooms,
Cloistered women who, with their skill, nourish the womb with life,
Holy women who cleanse with pure water.
They keep the prohibitions and adhere to what is sacred,
Kneeling in prayer, armed with a supplication,
Reverent and vigilant, mindful of good works,
They visit the sanctuaries, seeking life.
Skilled in benevolence, they act with propriety.
[They (the women) are the cows] of all Babylon, the herds of Ištar,
They (the men) are the ones freed by Marduk.
He (scil. Marduk) will never permit them to be robbed, nor to be slandered.

From the PDF linked on this Cambridge University Press page. The CUP themselves only included one line from that section.

I’m pretty sure it’s a crane winch on the back of the fire truck, but I prefer your interpretation.

I dug it out to upvote it :)