Roughly speaking, if you murdered and seized their wealth by liquidating their assets at current value, that’s like… 6k donation to half of the US.

That’s assuming 50% of about 340m people with big economic assumptions that won’t hold up, but fun to think about. It’s not a ton of money even then, but it’d probably do more for everyone than under some dragon. Course, we could also just tax them a large amount like we used to, which accomplishes the same thing without the murder.

Y’know, I keep reading about this but what’s the point? My kids talk to their stuffies anyway, and usually about way more interesting shit than the CCP. Imagination is wild.

Me when I was younger. Not that I’m not happy to have my morning cup, but it hits a little different when I can’t also relax since I’m watching two little kids in the morning.

I miss waking up at noon and just taking the world in while drinking good coffee.

And 6x7 is 42, so now every generation can be happy.

Ugh.

At least Arial exists. And Helvetica. But Times New Roman? What is this, English class in the early aughts? 12pt font, double spaced with one inch margins?

Hell, if you want wanna make America great again make it Courier; tech bros’ll think you’re coding but we know you really just want to take us back to late 1800s when typewriters and bad economic policy were in. Or maybe something appropriate for this administration, like Wingdings.

Ah, my teenage hero. Good chance I direct downloaded something; the Internet was so much better back then, lol.

This actually happened to me. I still had to look busy so I mostly just studied more or worked on a second job I had grading papers. I also spent a bit of time writing stories and designing things. Adding in something creative can help your brain balance things out.

I mean, providing zero value is a higher contribution so yes.

I legit would love to have Obvious Plant gifts for Secret Santa events. The anonymous nature improves the experience.

That’s just what I was thinking. Do they swoosh the joke and just assume OP is an asshole?

Yo, is it really so inappropriate?

Should it just be “Walk Like a Hieroglyphic” to clarify that this is in reference to Egyptian writings and not literally how people walk in Egypt? Lol

I’ve heard of these things from a documentary from that era called Mac and Me. I think they also routinely held something called a “birthday party” at them. Unfortunately there are no physical records to confirm that I am aware of.

True, that was one unique part about this one was the Texans said the quiet part out loud. Was obvious enough to the lower courts, anyway.

Actually, even if you go national, very few people like our system (something like 20% iirc?). And in NY? Fat chance.

You’ve got Citizens United, so both parties are pretty much in the pockets of insurance. They’ll just ignore that desire until more Luigis show up.

You telling me those images of Trump swimming through flood waters to save people in a hurricane haven’t already swayed voters? Lol

So far comments are pretty judgemental; you should know that male, neutered cats tend to gain weight with standard diets due to hormonal changes. Pair that with indoor-only lifestyle (which is very recommended for safety) and a dry food diet (which isn’t recommended but is cheaper) you have a good chance at a cat gaining too much weight.

Yes, there will also be people who just spoil their cats, but so long as we’re neutering and keeping cats inside then a weight loss drug might be reasonable to offset those factors.

Depressing but not surprising. Their corruption aside, the argument is that it’s not race based because it’s partisan gerrymandering… which is the official (and fucked up) reason for the maps. Partisan gerrymandering is legal, for some reason.

That said, race and politics are clearly intertwined so a bunch of black and brown folk are about to be disenfranchised. So long as the GOP remains the party of White Christian Nationalism, any partisan moves will continue to be racial ones inherently.

Life has gotten significantly worse with big fingers as my phone has a function (that I thankfully was about to deactivate for now) which has complete AI Gen messages that auto text to a recipient if you fat finger them.

Like fuck I’m gonna answer “Sounds good! 👍” to some asshole like a fucking jackass.

Your mention reminded me of a false pretense game from Adult Swim called Glittermitten Grove. I would consider that itself a fake game in the way a storefront might be a fake cover for a drug operation, except the drug in question is Frog Fractions 2.

Aight, if there are no wrong answers I wanna mention a real old one I’ve had a soft spot for since childhood: The Dreamcast-like music video Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

There aren’t a ton of examples from pre-social media, I wonder if there are any others that people can think of that’re even older?

Edit: Actually reading a few there are some from the 90s, like Simpsons. I forgot all about them, lol.