I think the popular idea is that Mentos reacts with Diet Coke, not regular Coke, but apparently people mainly use diet because it doesn’t leave as much of a sticky mess afterwards.

Yeah, cause what else would they be advertising? Fingerprinting services for fetuses?

NASA and most drug dealers.

Rabies concerns.

You seem to have a contradiction there.

Use the cistern if you’re squeamish.

You’ll need to go to the ATM Machine and use your PIN number to access your funds.

My guy, I’m almost as old as you. I just haven’t given up yet.

If you want to give, that’s fine. You can enjoy your schadenfreude while the world burns around you, I’d rather at least think about doing something about it.

No I’ve recognized the virus-like existence of humans for the bulk of my 43 years.

So do most of the people who vote (or don’t vote) for this shit. Maybe we should stop focusing so much on how much everyone else sucks and start trying to help each other.

People giving up is what got us into this position.

That is very clearly not a civil war battlefield.

Only the 10% or so that paid attention to “nerd stuff”.

All the rest are, at best boomer level, at worst smug about being at boomer level.

What does frog golf have to do with discs?

They finally made a monkey out of him…

What distro is this?

Depends on how they define winning. They may not be winning in your eyes, but not everyone views the world (or success) in the same way.

Or are you trolling me now?

The point of trolling isn’t to have reasoned debate, it’s to get people riled up and acting irrationally.

Seems like they’re still winning.

Why can’t a person be both a successful businessman and a colossal douchebag?

I think a more informative question would be “Why can’t a person be both a successful businessman and not a colossal douchebag?”

You can always move. I started on Kbin.

Admittedly, having the service collapse in on itself probably helps with the migration…

They’re supporters of authoritarian dictatorships. Which is distinct from, and frankly incompatible with, the ideals of Communism.

There are definitely those who decided that communism wasn’t what it was, at took the label for themselves to try and fool their constituencies into believing their dictatorships were “for the best”… but they were never ideologically communist.

Probably more of a “Soviet inspired systems aren’t socialist” kinda guy.