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Everyone in the room making decisions that would kill hundreds of millions of people so they could keep poisoning the air and water should be shot, and everyone who’s already dead should have their graves defiled and made into monuments to their most humiliating personal moments in life

South America was doing some pretty crazy stuff with agriculture

Québécois accent gives you away but other than that idk, lie and say you’re from Washington or Vermont or something and that’s why you’re wearing so much flannel and denim

Tens of thousands of armed people that look and sound identical to your citizens, sharing the largest land border on Earth. Yeah, Vietnam in Maine, sure why not

Vance looks like a kid putting on his dad’s clothes

Citations Needed did an episode on this. Steak is intertwined with concepts of manifest destiny and toxic masculinity

Positive sum entertainment is an incredible way to describe giving your money to a corporation in exchange for the hope of getting it doubled

It’s illegal but there’s still floods of ads for it because Google et al dont give a fuck

Yeah when Paul trips on spice in the cave before fighting Jamis, the book goes full on psychedelic to try and help the reader visualize how it feels to see the future

I’m not reading something nobody wrote chief

The previous marriage ended because her husband died btw

If you were teaching the curriculum handed down by Nazis to teach children Nazi beliefs then you were a Nazi

The infuriating thing is that they shove that shit into pre-existing features so opting out will break your email setup

Hit them with the

CMOT Dibbler type entrepreneur

The children’s toy has accurate geopolitical knowledge in line with the official position of the United Nations and most states on Earth including the US government’s public stance

Labubus are emblematic of overconsumption in 2025 but they’re also impossible to produce without a high technology base. You need to mine oil, refine it, produce plastic, produce polyester fur, produce vinyl, produce pigments, produce injection moulding and all the automated machinery around it, which means silicon crystals, wafer production, photo etching, and so on. You need to be able to produce all these components and you need custom machines and skilled workers to construct a labubu. It’s a worthless garbage toy but it’s also a monumental challenge to build.

Prison to hospital to prison to hospital pipeline. More like a particle accelerator or a centrifuge I guess.

There’s a lot of stuff like that. In computer science, unexpected program errors are called “bugs” because the very first unexpected program error was due to a moth getting into the punch card system of an early computer.

QWERTY layouts persist in keyboards because they were copying typewriters. Typewriters were QWERTY to reduce the risk of colliding typebars by making common letters distant from each other, an intentional inefficiency.

Until 2001, US stocks were priced in dollars and sixteenth fractions, because the US stock system was based on the 1600s Spanish system, which used pieces of eight (1/8ths of a doubloon).

Historic relic. The prior system to metric in medicine was the apothecary system and it used a standard called barleycorn as its unit. One grain of barleycorn was approx 64mg, and the standard dose of aspirin was 1.25 grains, or 81mg. Now 81mg hangs around as an in-joke.