Kinda mid, TBH. In my day we frenzied over imagined threats like razor-blade laced candy, opioids and vodka-soaked tampons.

Un bicchiere d’acqua

What’s TNP?

https://www.usa.gov/presidential-succession

That’s the vest joke I’ve heard in a while.

I think it’s a plushie of a claymore mine:

This perspective kind of reminds me of Pyro from TF2. I’m imagining an AI mine, but they couldn’t disable the ethics guardrails, so they got around them by altering it’s perception. That mine is just looking for tired and lonely friends to snuggle to sleep so they can finally get some rest.

With consumer protections and various other individual liberties being rolled back, I don’t think this meme goes far enough.

“Honk if you agree to the terms and conditions of the agreement linked with this QR code.” Might be a more profitable strategy going forward. Make the honking party agree to provide contract labor at minimum wage. Sell that labor to a third party for closer to the market rate for whatever their skill set is. Include an arbitration agreement. Profit.

I had never heard of that tactic. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be looking for IRL examples now.

Nixon should have started a hobby in hydraulic engineering specializing in the design and production of water gates, specifically for the Potomac River, including one near that hotel/office/apartment complex that’s name I forget.

Does this count as Beetlejuicing?

Wow, thanks for doing the research! Did you find anything especially interesting?

Always has been 🔫

And just to rub salt into the wound, someone created a clothing store named after the political corruption imposed on those countries to accomplish this: Banana Republic.

I can’t think of what an equivalent would be in terms of offensive marketing, Starving Irish brand potatoes? A Saudi demolition company named after September 11th? A clothing store inspired by antebellum southern US clothes? I guess some companies still use imagery of indigenous people for tobacco products. That seems like it’s in the same vein.

Generally, I try to focus on how beautiful life can be, but damn if there isn’t a crowd trying to make it ugly for others.

It’s just the price of progress, I’m afraid. For example, it’s absolutely critical that my toaster be networked with my breadbox at all times, so it knows when to order more bread delivered to me. It’ll be sad if one of them gets bricked, but I can always just buy another $800-breadbox. It’s a small price to pay to not have to notice when I’m low on bread and go buy more, like some kind of ancient Sumerian laborer.

Try not to think about it while at the beach.

I think I might have grown up “Trick XOR Treating” rather than “Trick OR Treating.” If I remember right, it returned “False” for “True” values of both “Trick” and “Treat” but not either and not none.

Don’t forget electrolytes! It’s got what plants bodies crave!

Anyone know if there’s a 3rd Rock from the Sun Community?

I don’t know how to make one, but I could learn how to help mod in case anyone’s got the will to make one.

You forking would like that kind of bullshirt, you bench-ash deck.

I really hope we’re doing a “The Good Place” bit here, otherwise, I apologize profusely.

Edit: Make grammar gooder

It’s definitely not recommended by the few cosmology sources I’ve read.