Fabulous.

Part 1: All of history from corporations becoming a thing to present day.

Part 2: The results of heartless corporate policy for the foreseeable future.

For a second I thought “self-ruling” = driven by one of those sovereign citizen idiots. You know, the kind that think they don’t need license plates or to pay tickets because they are nations unto themselves. In which case it’s almost a ghost car in that it’s not guided by an intelligent life form. Then I saw the board.

I have yet to encounter an self-driving car (not yet legal in Canada) but it probably feels wild driving near one.

What’s a can opener? Kind of NSFW - like not really, but if someone walks in on you watching you’ll have some explaining to do.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be the little spoon once in a while?

Get either a piercing weapon to exploit weak points or a bludgeoning weapon to transmit force through the plate, because she’s clearly here to do battle. Dinner can come AFTER I’ve defended my honor.

Every time I get close it says “Press X to Interact” but I don’t think my stats are high enough yet. I’m grinding on unattended toddlers until I level a few times.

Source is Oglaf.com, an adult webcomic equal parts humor and smut.

Reminds me of that Shane Gillis bit about Navy Seals jerking off their enemies to really intimidate them. Sorry it’s a TikTok link, it’s the one I found that had the right part of the special.

In the spirit of the thread, here’s a meme I’ve stolen from someone else’s recent post (want to give credit where due) in case you get criticized for your plundering ways:

“Ground-breaking new study discovers that being loved makes people happier”. I understand why it’s important to formalize results like this so you have data to inform policy etc, but man…it’s like reading a study about how the sun is quite warm. Parents who won’t support their kids without being told to do so have some foundational family problems to sort out.

I’m of the opinion that as long as you aren’t hurting yourself or others without consent, do what you want to. The consent thing is important because people will play contact or combat sports, do BDSM stuff, etc. - so long as it’s informed go nuts. It’s also important because some people can’t give informed consent, e.g. kids can’t agree to underage sex because they don’t know about the harms and are more vulnerable to manipulation.

A couple of years ago I watched a doctor review a video of someone who likes having sex with balloons. The doctor said he would only diagnose that behavior as a problem or illness if it was hurting him or others around him. His argument was if there’s no harm and it makes that person happier then what really is the problem? I was initially taken aback because it’s weird right? But after some thought it really made sense to me - just because I don’t relate doesn’t make something bad. I don’t have to want to do it myself - there’s room in life for multiple (non-harmful) preferences.

How about we just avoid the long arguments and jump to the end:

• Pro-Biden: Biden is only a war criminal. Trump will actually ruin the USA while being no better (or even worse) internationally. It’s a loss for no gain. If Trump wins I’m going to blame anyone who voted 3rd party or didn’t vote. We need people to vote Biden regardless of their ethical/financial concerns about the billions being sent abroad and how they are being used. It’s that important to stop Trump and MAGA.
• Anti-Biden and also Anti-Trump: Democrats never meaningfully change to court any voters left of center. Every 4 years they bank on their Republican opponent being so awful that it scares people into voting Dem because “it’s the most important election ever”. Biden has crossed the line by participating in Israeli crimes in spite of most Americans wanting otherwise. If he loses you should blame his policy and Democrat apathy to our concerns instead of us - we’re sick of having to support the lesser evil. Threatening to vote 3rd party or withholding our vote is the only way left to meaningfully demand change and proper representation of deeply important concerns.
• Pro-Trump: Popcorn time while we watch libs argue and vote for our (literally painted) golden leader to “restore” an impossibly perfect past that never existed. Even if he acts like a dictator for a while sometimes that’s what is needed.

There. After so many of these threads I can near guarantee 90%+ will fall roughly into those categories.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen some of those, but my order:

Bale = West (serious vs. funny, both legends don’t make me choose) > Pattison > Affleck > Keaton > Kilmer > Clooney

Even if they’re only able to get smiling right it would be an improvement.

Depends. Will the AI overlords be programmed to be religious, pointlessly bigoted, or crave as many digits in their bank accounts as possible?

I’m going to show my age with this list, and metal is such a large genre I don’t always know what counts. Hopefully there’s new ones for some folks that you’ll enjoy as much as I do.

• Bleed - Meshuggah
• Serums of Liao - High on Fire
• A Colossal Wreck - Every Time I Die I really love this one because I feel like you get 3 songs in 1. Might count as punk instead, I dunno.
• Hypermania - Polaris
• Earth Scar - Decapitated
• Loyal To None - Kublai Khan TX
• Rebuttal - Johnny Booth
• Dark Horse - Converge
• Blood and Thunder - Mastodon
• New Low - Thrown

What’s amusing is that I just noticed now that you’re the person who gave me the benefit of the doubt and defended me earlier. I seriously did not know that when I posted this, but after you replied here I recognized the name. Cheers friend.

Mean people are everywhere, and the separation of internet communication makes it easy to be cruel. Wave them off and and celebrate the folks who treat others well.