ChickenLadyLovesLife

Ah, I suspected that this was the dude who "microfractures" his own face before going out to clubs, by hitting his cheekbones with a tenderizing mallet. Turns out it was actually the dude who "microfractures" his own face before going out to clubs, by hitting his cheekbones with a tenderizing mallet.

These influencers must sit around and think "holy shit, I can actually get people to do literally anything."

I lived in Louisiana for a few years. I'm a white yankee and I used to dread situations where I'd end up in a room full of white native Louisiana dudes that I didn't know very well. Absolutely guaranteed that within ten minutes somebody would throw out the N-word and then everybody would be laughing and saying racist shit.

The worst was when I was a member at the local YMCA. Fat old white dudes that worked at the courthouse (like judges and prosecutors) would sit around naked on nasty old leather couches in the locker room literally making jokes about sending innocent black men to Angola prison.

The only reason I can't say Louisiana is the worst state in the country is that I also lived in Mississippi.

Why do I always think Goatse is the guy who did "Somebody That I Used to Know"?

We shouldn’t let men who constantly lie about what 9 inches looks like be the ones measuring insulation in the attic?

You must watch Cy Porter.

It's funny, but there has long been a paradigm in programming called test-driven development or TDD. The idea is that you have a small number of experienced developers who write a suite of tests that an application has to pass, and then you let an army of newbies write whatever the hell they feel like writing and if their code passes the tests it goes into the application (somewhat snarky summary but not entirely). In my experience it does not produce solid applications but a large fraction of the programming world swears by it. I've always thought that the construction analog of TDD would be letting a bunch of inexperienced workers build houses and then the experienced contractors drive around in bulldozers knocking down anything that happens to not be built well enough.

little plastic flags that clip on to your window or door frame

I don't mean to be all nationalistic, but I'm not talking about little clipped-on plastic flags. I'm talking full-on, massive Old Glories.

Excuse me? We're still the best at mounting flags in the backs of pickup trucks.

My (nearly 80) uncle used to show me random Youtube videos and then other videos would start auto-playing. It was always beautiful young blonde women (real ones, this was before AI) spouting the standard right-wing talking points. He would say "see, she's making a lot of sense" and I would ask him how it was that a blonde teenage girl had somehow arrived at the same "wisdom" that he had spent a lifetime accumulating. That actually made him think for a while, but he always forgot it by the next time around.

The real significance of the term "tragedy of the commons" was that it was part of a campaign of PR bullshit used to justify Enclosure, where wealthy elites seized common land as their private property, land that had in fact been used and managed effectively as a public resource for centuries prior.

TBF the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was immediately preceded by far larger slaughters of humanity using more conventional methods, a fact which somewhat minimizes their significance. I'm referring mainly to the Holocaust and the Japanese genocide in China, but even the US firebombing of Tokyo in early 1945 exceeded the death tolls of the atomic bombings.

Only tangentially related, but: I've always wanted to see a mashup of "Firestarter" and Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire".

Where I live there's a blind turn and sometimes when I drive around it I come upon a bunch of crows standing in the middle of the road and they have to scatter to avoid being run over. There is never anything in the road there, so I assume they are playing chicken with cars.