“We are not collectively responsible for the output of this system we collectively use to run our country”. Disagree.

There’s more to it than just Chernobyl.

Same reason the whole world measures battle mats in inches.

Chocolate-coated tacks.

Does all the songs in your favorite music album are masterpieces?

Never did them wasn’t.

C’mon now. Let the Star Wars fans have their day.

You can be born with a name, but not in the same sense that you’re born with kidneys. It’s okay to refer to the kid by whatever name makes everyone feel good.

Someone will be having a problem

Some people are bogon emitters. They radiate fundamental particles of cluelessness.

when I walk over it starts working

Some people are bogon absorbers.

Wind turbine syndrome. People living below wind turbines suffer from headaches, dizziness, nausea, and loss of sexual function… but only if they’ve been told that people living below wind turbines suffer from headaches, dizziness, nausea, and loss of sexual function.

Scientists taught rats to drive rat-sized vehicles in exchange for treats. When then offered treats without needing to drive, three quarters of the rats preferred to operate the vehicle to get the treats.

Many of the trained rats were observed taking an unusual pose while watching the scientists set up their vehicles. The scientists had only seen the same pose before in rats that were high on opiates.

I think the most obvious conclusion to draw is that rats enjoy learning and using new skills when there’s a reward involved, and that often the skill itself is the reward.

They were.

“My government does not represent me” sounds like the American leftist’s version of “thoughts and prayers”.

Sounds like a good way to get suicided. My feed as of writing this:

Maybe there’s a limit to how big they can build a hole in the ship that leads directly to vacuum.

I assume the moustache is the politician, not the man behind it.

Love “Everybody Wants To Be An Astronaut” by Royal Republic. The rest of their music isn’t like that.

‘On’ Spain?

When I was a teenager an American visitor wrote to our biggest newspaper calling us a shitty little 3rd world country for not serving hashbrowns. Which is how I learned what a hashbrown is. I can see why you like them, they’re in the same conceptual space as potato chips. Not sure you’ll get my buy-in as a breakfast food, though. So greasy!

*considers*

…No.

Our planet once ate another, smaller, planet.