Nah, much funnier with the name "parts of Holland", which Wikipedia still tell is still recognized locally.

It was a joke - Holland is 2 provinces in the Netherlands.

Would that contain Parts of Holland?

I always decide ad hoc for things like this and related questions like "do novellas count?".

I hope you chopped your onion super fine. Listening to my friends talk about making it while I lived in Qc, that seemed to be an essential part, based on how much they complained about doing it. One person I know owns a slap chop just so they can dice onions super fine for tourtière.

It's like that Douglas Adams' quote about the size of the universe, but it's about London instead.

I thought something like this was happening when Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou. Maybe I was missing some nuances, but China didn't seem to really believe that Canadian officials couldn't just randomly order her released.

I wonder how much people are under rating the difference 2 makes. If you're saving for a deposit you need some serious savings before it's less than a year of saving time and if you're repaying a mortgage it needs to be more than 600k before the time the 20k saves you is less than a year.

Vance is going to declare himself pope, claiming that the old pope told him he should.

I've always like: "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." - Edmund Burke

After I learned the idea of openings as a child that's all I ever did. Even, nonsensically, as white usually. I think I flipped through a chess book, liked the look of it and stuck with it for years.

especially after they figured out that asteroid isn't a risk.

An old colleague of mine once complained that people don't move more like fluids, since if they did they would speed up as the street go narrower. Though, that was for much less dense crowds.

I think part of it is approval rating. Trump is still above water there, for one of the only times in his political career. A lot of political people pay close attention to stuff like that.

Flesh to stone 😐

Every single time I see that acronym I'm confused for that reason.

Those are the readers I want to irritate though. Bloody prescriptivists, they literally ruin everything.

There was a publisher that did something like that for a while iirc. They did exclusively genre fiction, and it was something like 15 years ago.