I don’t think that’s fair. Plenty of people in this world do not know much about computers or the internet or anything in that area and just need a printer. So they go to their local big box store and there’s the HP printers and they’re a good deal, so they buy them.

Consumers do not get what they deserve when companies treat them like shit just because they don’t have certain knowledge.

Dahl was a great author but wasn’t a very pc person , his family have had to apologise for his anti semitism.

That is putting it very mildly.

"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

He said that in *checks notes* 1971.

Worse, it was in response to criticism to an article he wrote that was justifiably criticizing Israel at a time when it wasn’t so popular to do so. And when he was accused of the old “you’re anti-Israel, so you’re anti-semitic” nonsense, he decided to go, “hell yeah I am!”

If you want ceiling tits, you better pull yourself up by your ceiling bootstraps.

Sorry. Can’t pay attention to this thread. Too busy typing 5318008 into my calculator.

The contractor?

Hey, they call those rice paper things in Japan walls too, so…

Hey, it’s the door of our bathroom!

The less-funny, more realistic counterpoint to this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/nlpd-non-libertarian-police-department/360224/

I was just finishing up my shift by having sex with a prostitute when I got a call about an opportunity for overtime. A no-knock raid was going down across town.
“You’re trying to have your salary spike this year to game the pension system, right?” my buddy told me. “Well, we’re raiding a house where an informant says there’s marijuana, and it’s going to be awesome—we’ve got a $283,000 military-grade armored SWAT truck and the kind of flash grenades that literally scared that one guy to death.”

Ok.

I’m guessing the people dumb enough to drive in NYC are not displeased about what Trump did.

I’m not mad that you were too lazy to watch the 30-second ad it’s from, I’m just pointing it out.

You seem mad though.

At least use the right old lady.

What are you even talking about?

There is a vast gulf between being a kind and selfless person and thinking you could be rich someday if you worship the right plutocrat.

Then possibly I would know a bit more than him about being raised in the U.S. and being told such things by parents? Especially within the lifetime of everyone on the planet currently?

Sorry, I didn’t realize Charles Dickens was raised in the U.S. like I was and told these things by his parents.

You guess wrong. I grew up around a bunch of bigots who didn’t like me because of my ancestry and let me know it on a regular basis.

But you’re right, I was never pushed by my parents that money was the only goal, nor was anyone I know. It is quite possible you’re younger than me, which would explain that. I’m 47.

Maybe you shouldn’t.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394949-starlink-carbon-footprint-up-to-30-times-size-of-land-based-internet/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-new-space-race-could-be-harming-the-earths-atmosphere

The pin will be reconfigured to notify you when you need to buy more ink.

Tom said he was my friend, but did he offer to help when I was moving to a new apartment?