Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.

They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can’t apply it to me until then.

They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.

No European law applies outside Europe. That’s kind of the nature of laws.

Provide anything to back your shit up or shut up.

This puts me in mind of the landlord asking for a photo of the water not being hot. What would you expect “proof we were not noisy” to look like?

Except once they seven years when they become the most sexual beings in the trek universe.

Myself, I’d go for an Orion mistress, but not everyone is into the green.

I suspect that the reaction to the edited video spooked them. They were expecting to get away with that, and when it was so easily called pot as a fraud, they had to reconsider.

Back when I lived in N. Carolina, there was a local brand called “Dr. Enuff.” Loved that stuff.

On earth? No, not by a long shot. We would need to get into the deconstructing planets business.

An interesting analyses. It certainly matches what we’ve seen. His attacks on the standard list of people is moderately pathetic, and quite predictable.

He’s never told the truth in his life. How hard would it be to say “no, of course not.”

Context is as important to language as syntax.

Context is important to the message, yes. But if I need the context to understand a particular word, I would understand the message just as well without that word.

Yea. Not helpful.

I’m aware of the existence of contranyms. None of the examples you gave apply, as they just have different meanings, or the same leaving with different connotations.

Wasn’t he introduced with a story of pulling off a miracle to escape the Gorn? Or am I not remembering properly?

Right, that’s “speaking figuratively.” There are rules for that.

But a word that means the opposite of what it means is not a useful word.

I’d hate to find a box in my lab marked “inflammable.”

Trouser Python. Technically true, and no-one is going to check.

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I don’t think 29 year olds are millennial, are they? Or is this an older meme?

Are we expecting the Democratic party to actually support him? Seems the national leadership would rather see someone else in his spot.