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It’s always the ones you most suspect

According to anti-gentrification activists in Berlin, other strategies for keeping rents low include hanging washing out to dry from apartment windows and having foreign-looking names on doorbells.

Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters

If you and your identical twin relished pranking people by swapping places while you were both alive, then you’d sort of need to say goodbye with one last prank.

North Korea’s army which, whilst having a stranglehold on available resources in its threadbare economy, hasn’t seen combat since the 1950s. Its actual combat readiness may fall short of its rhetoric.

Someone could make Union Jack-patterned poppies, for those who want to show in no uncertain terms how gammony they are. They could sell them through ads in the Daily Mail, arguing that the traditional red poppy has been taken over by “wokeness”, and make a lot of money.

Poseidon is said to prefer Australian Prime Ministers as sacrifices, but maybe he’ll accept a few techbros.

If they were doing so in bulk, probably. As a one-off for one’s own use, doing so with the fit and finish of the commercial product would cost a lot more.

Given their abundance of geothermal energy (they keep their footpaths ice-free year round and still have enough to power energy-hungry facilities such as aluminium smelters and data centres), Iceland is probably the country that least needs this.

“ancient evils” are usually things like blasphemy, insubordination or having intrinsic self-worth.

There was a joke that the successor to the RU-486 contraceptive pill was the RU-Pentium, and it worked by preventing the embryo from dividing correctly

Given how his management decisions are impacting Tesla (pushing out buggy, dangerous “full self-driving”, cutting corners on quality, the whole Cybertruck thing, and associating the brand with his junior-sci-fi ideas long after anyone stopped thinking that he’s some kind of visionary technologist, to say nothing of the weird far-right turn and habit of impregnating employees), it could be argued that he’s strangling a company that otherwise had excellent potential, and that at this stage, it would have a better chance under other management. I’m not sure if, say, the suits at General Motors or Ford could have made as much of an impact with it as a subsidiary, but they’d have certainly killed the Cybertruck or at least made it more like a conventional SUV.