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Phone app is very handy. Especially if you enter your time on your commute home (I ride a train home - do not recommend for people who have to drive on the 110).

VGTs are a fucking blight and a sign of civic decline.

Get the fuck outta here.
That’s beautiful.

Some of this has to be related to phones as well, right?

Was listening to the Prof G Markets podcast today and they had the guy who Steve Carell played in the Big Short on talking about how “things will be back to normal in a week”.
I don’t think you can say that with any fucking certainty.

We are in the Age of the Agentic Slur.

Guys who talk about anything in their life (supplements, home computer setup, income) as a “stack” - straight to the reeducation camps. Struggle sessions for influencers taped in vertical video where they get beaten with sweatsocks filled with manure while begging their followers to unsubscribe.

“They are calling it utopian eco-socialism and we’re looking at it very strongly. We are transitioning and transitioning hard. Micro-grids, we love our neighborhood based micro-grids, don’t we folks?”

We don’t need “Tales from the Blue Parrot” with Colin Farrell in a fat suit playing a tortured version of Signor Ferrari who kills people with his fly swatter, but that wouldn’t stop them from making three seasons of it for HBOMaxPrime+.

If the movie was made today, HBO would have already optioned a “Young Rick in Catalonia” or “Sam and Sasha’s Bad Trip to Algiers” miniseries and we’d never escape it.
As it is, it’s fucking perfect and complete.

I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults.

There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds.

Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.

Watched Casablanca with my 16 y/o two weeks ago. The interpersonal dynamics in that movie are insane. Each character, even the minor ones, have histories with each other that are fully lived in but never unnecessarily spelled out.

health of a society is inversely proportional to how badly you need a dashcam in it

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

It’s important to keep in mind that whatever shitty thing this administration does, the reality is always more horrific and morally debased.

It just wants a belly rub.

Biggest and dumbest sin of Firefly.

No, I don’t think any of this ages well. And I say that as a fan who has the DVD box set and Serenity on Blu-Ray. Leave it be.

It's so degrading watching the Secret Service clean out someone's fuck pad. They walk outside with cardboard boxes and upend them. There are shattered Poison CDs all over the ground, glinting in the sunlight atop a towel that can't bend.

Josh.

I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.

JB’s a petty bitch and I love that for him.

Stevia Replacements

Stevia Replacements

Too lazy to do the Dr. Manhattan meme.

doesn’t

“Your payment portal is down” does just hit the same.

In light of the Bears decamping to either the NW burbs or Hammond, we are converting Solider Field to the world’s largest air fryer.

Cartoon titled "know the work rules". The first panel, labeled "appropriate" depicts Garfield the cat in a business suit leaning around the edge of a cubicle and pointing to a woman at her desk while saying, "coffee lasagna Mondays am I right?" to which the woman responds, hands clasped together, "awww you're so funny" The second panel, labeled "inappropriate", depicts a far side cow leaning around the edge of the same cubicle and speaking with a word bubble which contains only the shapes of the 4 cow tools. The woman fearfully picks up the Phone and says, "hello , complaint department??!"

know the funny papers rules

Because you know they are all from Niles or Harwood Heights.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard