Stern

a nerf gun that fires foam darts. the price is prohibitive enough that no kid is going to feasibly be carting this around under normal circumstances.

my issue with firefox atm is that both twitter extensions I use have been hobbled/removed by it for what looks to me to be spurious reasons.

https://github.com/kheina-com/Blue-Blocker/discussions/294

https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTwitter/discussions/752

inb4 “lol @ using twitter in 2024” I just steal memes from it, and mastodon/bluesky simply aren’t up to speed yet.

Weighing options though I’ll go with Firefox and shitty twitter experience rather then Chrome and the ads everywhere experience. Not really a contest there. Just idle complaints.

imagine someone being so self centered that they think everyone has seen every meme theyve seen.

“Can I invest in crypto”

“I already said no throwing it away”

Do love me some annoying wordplay, like the Chinese poem Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

Rasmus Sandin? Disgusting.

There is the tale (which has a grain of truth in it.) of how vaccination from chickenpox came to be via milkmaids and cowpox, so maybe folks think bird flu will work the same?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758677/

Billboard ads? Shitty but ehh not that bad overall. In game ads over radio or video? Nah miss me on that.

It’s Nintendo. I’m not shocked it happened… just that it took this long. Its fairly common hear about some fangame or mod via gaming news, and then two weeks later see the headline, “Legend of Mariotroid has been DMCA’d”

One of the things I don’t think about here.

Getting a large amount of downvotes on a regular basis might matter on the other site depending on various things like how automod is set up, but over here? My account could be net -1,000 on votes but its still only going to show how many submissions and comments I have on my profile.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights

All I’m sayin’

R.L. Stine Creative Writing Award winner R.L. Stine

I gotta imagine that Business Insider probably isn’t going to publish a entirely anti-capitalistic screed.

i found and posted an article in a community I mod a few weeks ago about this exact issue.

https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-high-prices-costs-making-food-snacks-sodas-worse-quality-2023-12

the fuck even is that question. Sincerely hoping he had more similarly deranged and completely unrelated to each other ones like

1. Peace in the middle east or Bob Ross comes back to life
2. Universal healthcare or find out what the deal is with airline peanuts
3. Permanent McRib or Kissinger dies again

i understand that reference

Goth gf and tomboy gf fighting over vague boy one can self insert into

You need to remember that Hollywood is risk averse. They are not making things to make art but to make profit. Thats why there’s like ten Fast and the Furious movies. Because they print money because car go fast boom explosion family.

When that realization hits home it makes perfect sense why we see remakes and adaptations and sequels. They already have a fanbase who will go see it.

Reminds me of a blog I followed about a guy having a castle built. He’d get contractors out for various bits and before they arrived they’d be like “oh its X for job Y” but when they got there and saw that it was for a castle, well magically the cost doubled. This might make sense in some parts but when the painter is trying to increase his price for square footage he quoted on the phone? Nah fam that ain’t it.

We have a insurer with a vested interest in ensuring the officer doesn’t fuck up in the first place. Insurers don’t want claims at all, because whether they win or lose thats still money being spent, albeit more in the latter case.

Rates would go up due to the numerous claims against Officer McShooty (even if defended) and he wouldn’t be able to afford it. He goes to another department? If they have insurance he’s still in the system so…