HOUSTON (AP) — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker in Houston was charged Friday with aggravated assault, prosecutors said.

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"Am I to understand" is, for lay people, the judge equivalent of "are you fucking serious right now"

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I play “Darmok” from Star Trek TNG every year for my Classical Chinese students, since it perfectly illustrates the experience of understanding the meaning of individual words and even their grammatical relation without understanding the sense because of allusions. Farewell to a fine actor.

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not to dunk on a stranger but I do think that aside from like, the height of the pandemic, or maybe the narrow months immediately following the financial crash, you can't really point to any recent era of human life where "everyone was miserable" or "everyone hated themselves", that's a you issue

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NEW: North Korea blamed for stealing a record $6.3 billion from crypto exchange Binance during Thursday cyberattack. Binance links breach to hack of an employee's laptop; but hasn't yet said how a single laptop was allowed to access systems capable of controlling billions of dollars in funds.

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