Unless you’re one of the rare unluckies that get optical nerve damage.

That’s uncalled for, donkeys are useful.

In the 90’s there was a bunch of propaganda about how UN peacekeepers couldn’t fire back if fired on. The funny thing is they absolutely could and did.

Didn’t stop movies like Hotel Rwanda from lying about what happens where they’re deployed.

https://en.webrwanda.com/2025/08/former-un-peacekeeper-dismisses.html

I mean the striking down part wasn’t necessary, which is the weird part. I guess Obi-Wan just wasn’t sure he could actually do it?

Rant time: it drives me nuts that they went out of their way to separate Terran Human and Forerunners into separate but related lines instead of humans being descendants of the Forerunners as originally intended only for them to have the Forerunners just decide to bury their McGuffin on Earth.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Moisture_vaporator

The reliable way in this case is printing money aka inflating your currency.

Debt can be useful, if you do useful things with it, things like building infrastructure, winning a necessary war, even student loans or for that matter free tuition and healthcare in general.

Debt taken on to extend your other debts coming due because you’re perpetually stuck in a negative income loop due to your poor national budget policies?

No. That is not useful debt. That is a death spiral, and it’s one that’s been created as a deliberate strategy.

Losing 2% of your body mass either doesn’t matter at all or it matters a lot, depending on where and why you lost it.

A general market trend is a concern. 2% of the NASDAQ tanking because it comes specifically from the 10% of it that is wrapped up in vaporware and is heavily leveraged is a crack in the foundations.

This probably isn’t the straw people want because they’re not concerned about the consequences. It is, however, an objectively huge market correction.

Here it comes, next step is begging Trump to kidnap Lula.

Smoking has decreased. Millennials aren’t at the point where medical advances matter that much to them as a demographic.

And medicine isn’t why famous boomers look good for their age, that’s called plastic surgery.

I mean, you can vote, it just doesn’t matter.

https://www.tomsguide.com/tvs/your-samsung-tv-is-watching-you-how-to-turn-off-data-collection

March 2nd btw, not that we haven’t known for years

Here’s Legal Eagle talking to Gamers Nexus about the LG TVs keeping their mics on when the TV is “turned off” and transcribing conversations in plaintext.

https://youtu.be/7kYn2x2Dt_A

tl;dr LG says they’re not doing targeted ads or such with it.

The mics in theory stay on but not recording to detect the activation phrase, but because they’re really just listening for “Hi” they turn the recording system on and then it stays on as long as sound is being made, all because you greeted someone in your home.

Always hard to tell with narcissists but generally speaking, no.

fundies will just bring it back

Yeah and that’s not the only thing that’s fake

But I want to drink more faster

Oh, the investor fraud it represents absolutely matters, just not to the SEC anymore.

There was a fan theory out there before the finale that Cylonism was an STD I believe.

How did the ship operate when half the crew were Cylons? They weren’t Cylons yet!

Then everyone started going with the theories that all of galactic history was Cylons all the way down which is less fun but just as stupid.

counterpoint: i want to see an alien invasion movie where everyone agrees by the end that we deserved it and the new management is doing a bang up job

“Hola, federales? Si. Si. CIA, si.”