I remember reading some sob story about how people weren't going to get their beloved Christmas candles that year. Like fuck you, what about the workers who died and their families?

But muh candle treats tho.

In almost every grade until around high school, my teachers would throw a pizza party on the last day of school.

It always threw me for a loop because in movies or TV shows that had a scene with a last day of school, the kids had to take a super hard quiz before they could leave. Media always makes school seem scarier and more difficult than it actually was.

Ants are fuckin cool. I wish the egg layers weren't referred to as "queens" because it gives the wrong implication that ant nests are a monarchy and that the queen somehow rules them.

In reality no decision-making comes from the queens since ants will continue to dig nests, find food, and care for each other even without a queen. The nest just doesn't have eggs to replace them.

Ants are really closer to being socialist collectives than anything. Food is divided evenly (although queens do get fed more, but only for the biomass needed to produce eggs) even the tiniest bit that is found is shared among as many as possible.

There are still cars that come with incandescent bulbs. I own a 3 year old base model Civic and it still has regular light bulbs in the headlights and tail lights.

"You will become more conservative when you get a job."

Me after being steadily employed for 22 years:

"You will become more conservative when you own a house."

Me after owning a house for 5 years:

Unless by "conservative" they mean conserving against liberal and chud mindset.

And he dies in a painful, humiliating way (eaten to death by little dinosaurs).

Dieter's death in the second film (CW: cinematic blood) almost mirrors how Hammond died in the novel.

The only ASMR I can stand is the sound of food cooking/sizzling, only because it triggers an appetite for me.

Shit like whispering, fingernails clacking on hard surfaces, or plastic bags being crinkled... no thanks.

My city has a rail station right in front of the stadium and barely anyone uses it, not even during big games/events.

When I was 13 I shat on Backstreet Boys and Nsync after I discovered The Eagles.

I grew beyond The Eagles though and now I lump them in with boy bands.

"Yay, my swollen belly isn't ascites from liver failure!"

Not only would it take a long time, I imagine the results would be extremely random to the point it would be unreliable as an execution method. Carcinogens, and the way each person's body reacts to them, are highly unpredictable. That's why health disclaimers on carcinogenic products say "may cause cancer" and not "will cause cancer."

It would be far easier to just shoot or stab the target and make it look like a robbery gone bad or something.

Reminds me of that scene from Austin Powers where they parody those intricate death traps in James Bond films...

Dr. Evil: I'm going to kill Mr. Powers by putting him in an overly elaborate and easily escapable contraption and assume it all went according to plan.

Scott: Why don't you just get a gun and shoot him? He's right there!

"This bridge can't accommodate your ridiculous treat-truck and we will fine you if you break it."

Pickup owners: "tHiS iS a ScAm"

I bet these same people post comments like "fuck around, find out" and "should have listened" on videos of people getting shot by the cops for not following their orders one hundred percent.

Yeah, the one by me started doing them around 2019 or so and stopped about a year back. They were loud as fuck too and I'd hear them echoing off the buildings across the street.

They still do ads but it's silent slideshows of food and products that are on sale in the gas station store. Still shitty but kind of an improvement I guess?

Criticizing the current administration in charge of the country that supplies arms to a country committing genocide == pro-Trump.

Nobody is talking about Trump BECAUASE HE'S NOT RUNNING THE USA RIGHT NOW. I don't know how it's so hard for libs to understand thus.

The R-slur was considered offensive even when I went to school in the early 90s. I distinctly remember kids getting into trouble when caught saying it, especially if it was directed at kids in the special education classes.

By the 2000s I feel like the lid had more or less been put on those kinds of slurs. But in the last 10 years or so they've made a comeback in spite of chuds claiming that they're being "censored" now, and that the 90s were like some bastion of freeze peach.

So I'm too lazy to fully read up on it, and what little I could find wasn't completely clear, but are Mennonites essentially LARPers? Like do they just dress plain like it's the 17th century while enjoying all the modern conveniences?

I've always seen people say that if you are coming from MacOS then try GNOME, and if you are coming from Windows then try KDE. This is the first time I've heard of anyone say either of those desktops blatantly ripped their respective OS's off.