Lol the Onion is gold. "Study: Pregnant Women Can Drink One Bottle Of Wine A Day If Fetus Can Hold Its Alcohol"

@derobert So, is there more Brexit fun scheduled for today?

How can I delete ./*/* but not ./* it self?

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Profile\ 7/Extensions/*/*

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@FaheemMitha bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49580185

> Opposition MPs and Tory rebels ensured the bill passed its first stage by 329 votes to 300.

Was that last night's "event"?

Though I thought that one was 301.

No, I think that was the one.

@FaheemMitha Last night was the procedural vote to make this one possible. Unsurprising the vote totals are the same or similar, you'd vote for last night's procedural vote iff you want this one to pass.

(And no, "iff" is not a typo before you ask)

@derobert I know it isn't. I did math, remember? It means "if and only if".

Though it's not commonly seen outside a math context.

Well, with my history of typos...

The House of Commons seems unhappy.

Lots of yelling.

And I have yet another TeX issue to sort through. Yay.

This time a font one.

I think they plan on repeatedly delaying Brexit until a wizard shows up and solves their problems. I mean, there isn't a majority for that option, so they wouldn't vote for that, but the same is true of any other possible Brexit plan.

@derobert Well, obviously they should hold another resolution. Which will probably go in favor of remain. And that would be the end of the matter.

I don't think anyone actually knows for sure how another resolution would turn out.

@derobert Well, if the British people have any sense...

Though I certainly would not bet on the good sense of the British people.

Kenneth Clarke spoke well. Apparently he's the same Kenneth Clarke from "before".

And of course you might get a very different result with, e.g., more than two options on the ballot. E.g., you'd probably want at least three: status quo; the May (or Johnson deal, if he negotiates one); and no deal exit.

I thought it might be someone with the same name.

Because "leave" isn't really a clear option.

@derobert Hmm. I didn't think of multiple options, but that's a good point.

No one bothered trying to figure that out the first time through, AFAIK because the common wisdom was that status quo would easily win.

@derobert Yes, that was a bad mistake. Like not asking a question to which you don't already know the answer.

If I understand correctly, it wasn't actually necessary to have a resolution in the first place.

Hah, that's only a mistake when at trial :-P

In India they would probably just politely ignore it.

@derobert Same diff.

Jo Swinson spoke well too. She sounded really fed up, and I don't blame her.

Just think, after Johnson fails to get a new election passed, he could try to pass a motion of no confidence in his own government to get one. Then possibly Labor and Liberals would have to vote in favor of him to stop him. Britain has so much more entertainment to offer the world :-/

@derobert I must be missing something. He seems keen on an election. Why?

Either because he thinks he'll win it, or alternatively because he plans to do something underhanded (like schedule the election after Brexit is over).

Or, I suppose, both.

@derobert Hmm. I never quite understood why people vote for either the Tories or the Republicans. They're so dreadful.

I remember when I was a kid, hating Thatcher.

In a purely instinctive way.

@FaheemMitha If you're wealthy (or even upper middle class), Republicans didn't used to be so bad.

@derobert Well, they're getting worse.

They've been pretty bad since Reagan. I remember him too.

Reagan (before my time, really) was pretty popular. So was the 1st Bush, at first. Nowadays, even the 2nd Bush looks great in comparison to the current President...

@derobert Reagan was relatively popular, yes.

He was still horrible, though. I remember my father ranting about him.

Though at the time I understood relatively little about the issues.

On a somewhat different note, I found this log line amusing this morning Sep 04 10:11:20 Einstein fsck.s3ql[14530]: Checking for dirty cache objects...

Well, I didn't store that many naughty pictures on the filesystem, hopefully it's OK.

@derobert Scientists being naughty?