Yeah I’m sure that’ll… help? Israel is the one dropping airstrikes on refugee camps, what makes anyone think they actually want any aid in Gaza at all?

Kinda depends for me, super situational. The right kind of pressure and yeah I’ll do it, something like an imminent non-negotiable deadline works for me. I’m the guy who files my taxes in the last possible week, I’ll slam out a report a night or two before it’s due.

But someone forcing me to do it? They just get flagged as an asshole who doesn’t have any authority here, even if I’ve asked them to do this, I know they’re trying to help, whatever. It’s the same situation when I try to set deadlines, or rewards, for myself. I know the guy who made those rules, he’s full of shit.

“Things can always get worse” is a pretty shit justification to say things aren’t bad now.

Honestly you can get a lot done just by wrapping a rubber band or two around your phone, it’ll kinda catch and hold in your pocket and make it more notable if someone tries to pull it out. Works for your wallet too, and all without building a whole ass mousetrap for your pocket.

You underestimate how horny the internet is.

But it’s okay, because now we can get wrong answers faster than ever, and we’ve taken human creativity and joy out of art.

“How could this badly designed thing work if it wasn’t so badly designed?” Sometimes, if you can’t make a thing work, the solution is to use something else that does. And sometimes the solution is just to make it better, like directing the IR detection beams just to either side of the water stream.

“Escort back to China” sure is a weird way of saying they kidnapped her.

So if I just occasionally have a beer with dinner does that mean I could also enjoy a bit of light recreational heroine for dessert?

The harder you push the pedal the more you want your speed to decrease, obviously. But if you push it hard enough then the decrease from your current speed to Zero is no longer enough. So now the engineers need to decide if you’ll speed up first, so the decrease from the new speed to zero is larger, or if it’ll slam you into reverse instead.

Yes Elmo, I’m sure that will solve your problems. Well done.

. . . I might have ADHD, because this is probably the most relatable example I’ve ever seen.

No, I’m sorry, that’s not the conclusion the industry paid for, now your kneecaps are forfeit.

The fact that that article is itself behind a paywall is some weapons grade irony that The Onion wishes it thought of.

So… they can identify when someone in a conversation is a minor. And they can identify when nudes are being sent. But when these two are combined, they figure just blurring the image is the appropriate solution?

In essence, when the growth rate slows to a certain point, people are dying faster than they’re being replaced, and the trend can only continue unless everyone starts having 10 kids.

Growth is growth. It’s not tracking only births, it’s tracking births against deaths. Population decline is people dying faster than they’re being replaced, but even “very slow growth” would still mean the population is increasing.

Yes he would still run. He tries to give the impression that he’s a big winner that wins bigly, who never loses because losing is for losers. He can’t allow himself to end on a loss, his brand image basically demands that he keeps trying and he can’t be satisfied until he wins a second term.

You know puberty blockers aren’t permanent right? Stop taking them, and then puberty happens. But once you’ve gone through puberty, there’s no undoing that. That’s where the harm is, in forcing someone to undergo changes they know they don’t want.

I can definitely see why you’re on so many blocklists.

Big talk from a small man. The internet hasn’t forgotten the buried sub you were moderator of, Spez.