You’re right, but I googled the wrong thing and googled John 4:16, which is “Jesus said ‘Go call your husband […]’” (It says more, but search cut it off there.)

I had a solid guffaw because these boxes are for 2-way radios. Then I realized that I googled the wrong thing and lost interest in continued research.

Wait. You’re telling me the pocket cartel even has a stranglehold on diaper bags?!

Tagline: Love is a battlefield!

It’s not funny, though.

It’s just stupid. Top to bottom, left to right. There’s no angle that is funny or enlightened.

The twist is lame. The original premise isn’t funny. Certainly not ‘funnier’ than the propaganda the premise is trying to deliver.

The whole fucking thing is just a Schrödinger’s asshole setup with a different sort of joke than we’re used to with those setups.
If you buy into the agitprop, it reinforces purity testing and infighting, while undermining solidarity between people who could find common ground.
And if you don’t, then it’s just a joke, bro.

I mean this earnestly, what part is funny?

What makes it explicitly humorous?

Rule 0: No agitprop. Not a meme, just shittiness.

Increasingly, I’m reminded of this: Paul Bunyan vs. the spam bot (or how Paul Bunyan triggered the singularity to win a bet). It’s a medium-length read from the old internet, but fun.

The promise of money — even diminishing returns — is too great. There’s a new scraper spending big on resources every day while websites are under assault.

In the paraphrased words of the finance industry: AI can stay stupid longer than most websites can stay solvent.

It’s not unheard of. The genetic factors for several types of conditions can overlap. Not a guarantee, and everyone is different, but… 🌈💫

Mine’s part stink bug.

Well…

Stewart dropped a line that made Hasan pause: maybe Democrats just need “the right reality host” to take over the party.
Hasan’s reflexive response — please, no more reality hosts — came with one notable exception: “Unless Jon, you’re thinking of throwing your hat in the ring… we can talk about that.”
Stewart laughed. He didn’t deny it. He didn’t wave it off. He just leaned back, smiled, and chuckled.

As another commenter brought up, when the idea has been suggested in the past, Jon has unequivocally and instantly shut it down.

Big “Hmmmmm” vibes here.

Be careful with those mushrooms!

I should have said reaffirm to capture my intended meaning there.

It’s not that he would change the scheduling, but change the handling of it. Right now the federal government more or less takes a strategy of non-enforcement at the intra-state level, but I could see Trump choosing to selectively meddle after reaffirming its schedule I status.

You know, I posted that comment sort of unthinkingly, but you are right.

There’s a book called “Why does he do that? Inside the minds of angry and controlling men” that’s on my reading list. (A good summary of the book is available here)
The author repeatedly highlights exactly the point you brought up - that abusers will wield therapy language to perpetuate their abuse. He instead suggests the only real way to change abusers (who are not necessarily the same as sociopaths, mind you) is to put them in programs tailored to abusers to more or less make them realize how much they need to learn empathy, and equip them with the ability to use that empathy.

I mean, the alternative was to crumble.

I mean, fuck. I was just thinking it through -
In the U.S., Most millennials started out in the wake of the war on drugs and the damage it did to communities. From there, you have the racial tension of the 90’s, the death of truth with Fox News, the rise of school shootings, 9/11, the start of the rightward/authoritarian swing of the U.S., the ‘08 recession, citizens united, loss of democracy, COVID, another recession, inflation, housing insecurity, the loss of the illusion of democracy.

I remember back in 1999, when I was a kid, hearing folks talk about how in just a few years weed was going to be legal and so was gay marriage. I remember thinking that the future was going to be bright and not some authoritarian hellscape. Now there are license plate readers at the grocery store parking lot.

I mean. If we didn’t know how to manage the feelings we have about the future we were promised and lost, and all the trauma we’ve experienced along the way, I guess we’d all wind up driving Dodge Rams with U.S. Flags on them.

Every millennial I know is in therapy.

I do not associate with people who decorate their vehicles that way. I find they act like sociopaths.

Ergo, people who put flags like that on their cars are in need of therapy.

I’ve declared it to be true. Spread the word.

Expecting Trump to declare cannabis to be a schedule I drug, cancel the plans to reschedule it, and begin federal raids on legal dispensaries within California to harm their economy.

Bonus points if he collects state purchasing records (nationwide) to selectively threaten/silence people based on their social media history.

I’ll refrain from correcting anything else, to not be a dick.

Always a good call, besides, why be a dick when you can be ridiculous?

I’m not a mathemagician or a physexiest, so it’s safe to assume my assumptions are wild and my calculations suspect.

• Blue whales weigh between 90,000 and 180,000 kg. Let’s go right in the middle at 135,000 kg.
• A deviantart post from 2014 says Blue whales are as dense as water (approximately).
• According to an online calculator, seawater weighs 1,021kg/m^3 (I figure whales are salty, because of climate change and the centuries of being hunted to near extinction).
• If we assume that weight equals volume, then the same calculator puts our whale at 132.1m^3
• And, obviously, that doesn’t work for my porpoises. So we grind the whale into a slurry, and freeze it into a ball. Using an online tool to find the radius of a sphere from the volume, we come up with 31.6, which I assume is meters.
• Doubling that (in my head!) to get the diameter, we’d wind up with a ball that is about 63.2 meters across.
• Using this online calculator of unknown provenance, we put in a diameter of 63.2m, a velocity of 9.8m/s (earth’s gravity!), an angle of 90 (because our masticated and spheroidified whale would of course be dropped from space like a cartoon anvil), and selecting ice as the material, it says the crater would have a radius of 324 meters, with ejecta spread about twice that.

Not enough to destroy the whole thing, but enough to wipe out St. Peter’s Basilica, and do a lot of damage to the rest of it.