Triumph

https://youtu.be/wmBlQllspVQ

That was a rollercoaster in fifteen words.

Slap an Edelbrock carb on there, done and done.

“I am the shit” vs “I’ve seen some shit”

He gets me.

Also: fucking patchouli

Pop an H on it

I’m sure you’re right for a lot of people. Considering the audience here, who I expect to be more capable of doing more complex things on the basis of “they’re here”, I hope my advice is more productive than it would be to, say, the local rural Facebook moms group.

It’s a bit of a self-sustaining cycle. Media depends on engagement, social media even more so. Hate engagement is capable of increasing engagement, and it’s easier to create content that elicits hate engagement. Throw Internet Rando participation on top of that.

No, you should not quit social media. The beauty of it is that content that traditional media would never take a chance on which you would like to consume actually exists. What you should do is be mindful of what kind of content you choose to consume, and recognizing when content has an undesirable agenda beneath its surface. Content is not normally created for no purpose. Always ask “Why was this created? How does the creator intend for me to react to this? Is that an appropriate reaction?”

Just letting the content pour into your brain without consciously filtering it is a bad idea, and that’s got nothing to do with social vs traditional media at all.

Could, yes. In 1990, the standard was to call 411 if you needed to find a phone number. And that often cost money, so parents would drum into their kids not to call 411. “We have 411 at home. ::slams phone book on table::”

Which means they’d have had a phone book, and everyone knew where it was. Sometimes local police/fire/hospital emergency numbers were printed on the cover, or on the first page. If not, there’d be a place on the cover where you could write them in yourself. They’d also come with a refrigerator magnet sign that you could write in with marker later on.

I’m not saying any of this to be disagreeable; there are a zillion plot holes in that movie. Just reminiscing with some late 1980s “day in the life” nostalgia.

Now get off my lawn.

While 911 as an emergency number in the US began in 1968, it wasn’t universal until 1999. Home Alone came out in 1990. It was completely normal in my youth (earlier, yes, but still) to just not know what the number to call the police was.

Mr. Regular looking on MapQuest for directions to BROWN TOWN

“Freed”

Mobius sandwich

Oh good, podcasts and web browsing (to here, mainly).

Straight to jail.

I am allergic to mangoes.

Hence the qualifier “weak-ass”.

Unless it’s some weak-ass plastic, “not dishwasher safe” usually means that certain parts of the item may experience cosmetic damage, and the company got tired of fielding complaints about that.

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