Always fond of “The American Medical Association” from The Illuminatus! Trilogy

and

“The Band with Rocks In” from Discworld

big pause or it doesn’t make sense

☝️🤓 that would be reflection boxing, a different visual phenomenon

it’s a good time for them, dispassionately speaking- Ocean freight is down, meaning you’re looking for nearshoring (Mexico and Canadian cross border freight), meaning you want more over the road shipping across large land masses than shipping to a port.

hey, I mean Uber Freight is a thing now

Louis XIV also hated people going to the bathroom, so you had to piss on the floor because you needed to do it quick before he noticed you were gone.

superheroes are “benign” fascists, it’s fiction that would never work. Even in the gooest, saccharine interpretations I would be the one criticizing superman lol

ad tracking is only as personalized as the company running the ads

If I’m advertising fake nails, it’s personalized if you like fake nails and I advertise to fake nail fans, but if I advertise to all femme people - then it’s no longer personalized, and advertisers tend to do the latter.

you’ve commented twice in this thread?

I think the intent of the comment was meant to be sarcastic? not sure

british people also say “nahimsayin” fwiw.

Americans have plenty of words to add emphasis without adding meaning, yo, my dude, boy howdy.

The knacker was the person who took your old tired horse and butchered it into meat, leather and glue, so it often carries that connotation too

Wu. Stir. Shear. Sauce.

is it still going with Bec Hill?

“we can make fun of everyone! so we’re going to run a years-long transphobic storyline!”

like, no, that’s exactly how priests who diddle kids rationalize it - I do good things so I can’t do bad.

unlike other comments, I’d argue, like most tech, it was incredibly profitable for anyone except the people funding it.

Business is not about extracting money from goods and services, it’s about tricking VC funders to give you 50 million dollars a year

them chickens jacking my style!

She’s an archduchess, presumably with almost infinite family wealth.

i think it’s more likely that everyone would race to the bottom to make the cheapest Marvel, Pokémon, Disney, Star Wars, Harry Potter spin offs, merch and content they could.