Prince Andrew will remain a prince, but will cease to be the Duke of York - a title received from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth - as well as giving up membership of the Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain.
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Sarah Ferguson, his former wife, will no longer be known as the Duchess of York, but their daughters - Beatrice and Eugenie - will continue to have the title of princess.
How quaint.
Mississippi
Interesting. In the US, most jurisdictions have open container laws: A drink needs to be either factory sealed or in a place where it is not readily accessible (such as a trunk) or the driver is in violation.
“This is literally our only option to distract from the Epstein files at this point.”
80% of government “debt” is actually in the form of bonds. People voluntarily give the government more money than they’re required in taxes because they believe the government will be strong enough to pay them back interest later. The government does not have to pay down all that debt because the bonds are being cashed out at a predictable rate and people are buying new bonds all the time, so the new bonds finance the old ones.
For example, someone in 1995 buys a series EE bond at $100. It’ll be worth roughly $200-215 now, which is 30 year maturation. But due to inflation, $100 in 1995 is worth $212 today. So even though the US government paid out over $100 in interest, due to inflation it was basically a wash, and they had 30 years to invest that money in infrastructure. Meanwhile, since $100 is not worth as much now, people in the same social class are likely now buying $200 bonds, so really the US is on the hook for the last $15 or so. In short, this “debt” was actually a good deal for the US government.
The short version is the government is fine as long as it can pay the interest on its loans without needing to print so much money to do so that it causes hyperinflation. You don’t have the ability to do that with your personal debt.
“I never thought leopards would eat my face.”
Almost everyone loves a good “cute pet doing something odd” story — especially when it involves a dog and breakfast. Recently, a video showing a dog’s hilarious and unexpectedly polite morning routine before mealtime went viral, prompting laughter, delight, and heartfelt commentary across the internet.
AI slop. I stopped reading.
Nah. XP was huge when it came out because NT was so much smoother and more stable than the Windows 9x product line: it was nearly as stable as 2000 with a more modern DE than Windows 95-ME.
But Windows 7 did everything XP did bigger and better. It’s no shocker that all the Windows-like Linux DEs look like forks of Widows 7.
I’d hate being an NPC in the games I play. Especially since fiery deaths are often a loophole to the “no killing NPCs” rule.
Yours must have, because it’s uncensored for me.