As someone who moved to a new country, having preparation instructions for things that “everyone” knows how to cook are super useful.

Meh. There’s also .UK, which is not the country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland… that’s GB.

We also have .EU, so this stuff is all pretty flexible in some sense.

Country codes are defined by the ISO, which is not UN run.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization

“You will be shot!”

“More like chewed out. I’ve been chewed out before.”

I was interested in that quote, since it seems incredible:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/29/hire-half/?amp=1

tldr: it originally appeared in slightly different form in a newspaper article by a critic of Jay Gould about his failure to get a particular policy through, and was probably not something Gould said in so many words.

Interesting though!

Justice Thomas? Is that you on Lemmy?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_power_grows_out_of_the_barrel_of_a_gun

I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby Come with me Friday, don’t say maybe