IIRC, some of the Microsoft ones were designed by Susan Kare (who previously did the Macintosh icons).

It’s a subliminal reminder to wash your hands

Last year, you could not hear boos when Israel entered, but you heard some between the time the Greek flag (which is the same colours) was seen and Greece was announced, which seemed telling.

They’d be a Taiwanese electronics firm founded between the 70s and 90s. I’m fairly sure I had one of their SVGA multisync monitors back then.

May your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth with the force of a thousand caramels

Hungary, Poland and such

“The Left” here being anyone who’s not an arsehole.

French Press: for coffee drinkers who hate coffee

Now there’s a guy whose skinsuit fits awkwardly

When the base find themselves worse off, they’ll blame the wokes. It’s those goddamn gay Mexican muslim furries, what else could it be?

There’ll soon come a day when the C-suite officials of unpopular companies are only referred to by their initials, like the heads of spy agencies.

She was letting her freak flag fly, and more power to her

Quite a pivot from Fez

The lower house, which legislates, is not proportionally represented, so even with preferential voting, Duverger’s Law applies and pushes towards two main parties (though not as strongly as under FPTP). The federal Senate is proportional, and there there are plenty of parties, with the government needing to deal with crossbenchers to pass legislation.

Depends on which option would serve better to advance the plot

The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

This is my surprised face.

During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Nazi Germany toned down its rhetoric as to appear normal to visitors, and “No Jews allowed” signs disappeared from public places. The moment the Olympics were over, they reappeared.

This has the same energy.

Spoiler: it’s plastic explosive

See also: Elon Musk’s how-do-you-do-fellow-geeks shtick (“it’s the car Blade Runner would drive”)