Excellent point, yes. The one near us frequently has the weirdest stuff. Last summer we were browsing around and they had some fancy office desk made by some well known artist with a $40k price tag. It was just shoved back in the corner with a bunch of $5-20 desks and tables.

I’m a regular customer at home improvement stores, and I make it a point to occasionally just go wander down aisles I haven’t been down in a while and just browse through what’s available.

It’s not uncommon for me to exclaim, “Oh! I didn’t know THAT existed?” or “Oh! THAT’S what that’s called/where to get those!”. Other times it’s, “What on earth is THAT for?!?” but then 6 months later I’ll be like, “BRB, gotta go get one of those things.”

I’m of the opinion that even people that don’t own/maintain their own home would benefit from the esoteric knowledge of what can be found on the bottom shelf in the back corner of their local home improvement stores. I don’t care what your hobby or passion is. If you don’t frequent the home improvement stores, there’s probably something there that you can repurpose for your own benefit that you’ll wish you knew existed a year ago.

they’re instantly considered scum for voting for their own interests

Have you not noticed what community you’re in here? They voted against their own interests, because the alternative was voting for a black woman /* clutches pearls */. The entire point of this community is to call out people that vote against their own interests and then whine about the outcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

I read that as dripping with sarcasm.

6543 inventions are currently suppressed.

Like what?

/s

A flu shot takes about two weeks for immunity to kick in. And people don’t want to catch or spread the flu over Thanksgiving.

So it’s really important that people go out and get them this year week today.

I mean, Asian culture does seem to have an unhealthy fascination with Nazis.

As early as 2000, Time did a piece on the country’s Third Reich–themed bars. That trend never fully took off, but it’s still fairly common for Korean teens to cosplay as Gestapo agents.

Known widely as Nazi chic, it’s different from the skinhead or punk swag you find in the West. The trend stretches beyond Korea—in China it was fashionable to dress up like Nazi officers in wedding photos, and a Hong Kong store once hung Nazi banners throughout their shop. In India, a Hitler boutique (with a swastika dotting the i) opened in Ahmedabad in 2012. In Indonesia, Soldatenkaffee, a bar named after a Parisian Nazi hangout and decked out with Hitler quotes and Third Reich flags, has (despite a temporary closure due to outrage) operated in Bandung since 2011; the Indonesia pop star Ahmad Dhani recently performed at a rally for 2014 presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto in Nazi regalia.

But the worst offender in Asia is Thailand. In 2007, some Thai students had a Nazi-themed parade, and in 2012 a school held an SS sports rally. Some Thai language books that use Hitler in their exercises, and a Bangkok KFC knockoff briefly called itself Hitler and used the Führer’s face in place of Colonel Sanders’s. In 2013, the country’s top university had to apologize when students painted a giant mural of superheroes that included Hitler, with which they posed Sieg Heil-ing. And naturally they have Nazi-themed pop groups as well.

And these are only the major, international-headline-drawing cases. From Cambodia to Japan to Myanmar, it’s fairly common to encounter vendors in markets selling swastika-adorned bike helmets, T-shirts featuring Hitler’s mustachioed mug, and Ché-esque Adolf posters of all sorts.

Have you forgotten about the Jewish Space Lasers causing hurricanes?

That would be great, but this new Internet will somehow need to be able to accurately detect and block AI generated content.

My guess is that the new social media will be people physically going to established common areas in their communities and talking to each other in person, face to face, which has it’s pros and cons.

As a strong proponent of the metric system, I humbly conceed your point.

Cool, but…

equivalent to a half-raisin carrying three uncooked grains of rice.

What a completely useless comparison.

By my math, it’s equivalent to a typical human carrying an 18-22 lb backpack. Why wouldn’t they just say that?

Donald! You can just tell the DOJ to release them. You campaigned on releasing them, so just do it. They don’t need to vote on it if you just do it.

Do you think we can just vote whenever we want?

Like, “Wow, the last 10 months have been awful! That’s it. I’ve had enough. I’m going to go vote against him today.”

That’s not how voting works.

Don’t worry. The Democrats will put up some old milquetoast centrist with 0 charisma and expect us to vote for them simply because it’s, “Not JD Vance!”

Fortune gives Karp soapbox from which to say whatever he wants, unchallenged. Eventually, though, they get to…

Critics—especially civil-liberties groups—have accused Palantir for years of building analytics tools that enable government surveillance. Karp says these attacks rely on caricature, not fact.

Then, at last, they finally demonstrate some journalistic Integrity and rebut his statement with why those groups make those accusations… Oh, wait, no they don’t. They just end the article with one final quote from him that could just as easily have been from Hitler.

“Pure ideas don’t change the world,” he said. “Pure ideas backed by military strength and economic strength do.”

Cool, but I’m skeptical of how accurate this is. According to the app, Amazon predominantly supports Democrats (by a 2 to 1 margin), and donated to Kamala but not the Orange Pedophile. That seems fishy seeing how Bezos was getting the VIP treatment at the inauguration. Am I misunderstanding something (won’t be the first time)?

Admit that the system is hopelessly broken, Gavin.

Back when I was a whee whippersnapper, we would click the reply button and type, “Ok”, or “thanks”, or “Ok, thanks”, or “gotcha”, or “:-)”, or “+1”, or “LOL”, or “LMFAO”, or … I mean, it was onerous, with those extra couple clickity clicks and tappity taps, but somehow we managed.

the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion

For anyone struggling with the logic on this one, alllow me to beeak it down.

1 billion minus 1 million equals 999 million, or, for all intents and purposes…

about a billion.

On a scale from 0 to 1 billion, 1 million is one tenth of one percent of the distance up from 0. From the perspective of a billionaire, a low end millionaire is indistinguishable from a homeless person.

While it’s cathartic to hate on everyone with money when you’re struggling to pay rent and feed your family, billionaires are the problem (and taste like chicken).