Common enough that they should really make them with flared bases.

Mr lover man obviously.

Volkswagen shareholders weighing up the benefits of short term gain versus long term damage…

Welcome to being older. The magic goes and the cynisism sets in. There is still hope though. If you can clear your eyes of the razzle dazzle of unfettered consumerism, you can realise it’s a nice time to spend with those you care about. Makes it an even better time of the year. Edit. I realise that sounds too flippantly jolly. My point was that for all of human history this has been a festival to stave off the deprivations of starving and freezing. I just feel this< angle is a good way to look at it.

Fuck off. I can definitely count to 25.

Linoleum is also antibacterial, which is a good property for a kitchen floor.

That every time people had sex, the woman became pregnant. I thought that every sex scene in a film meant the film had to be stopped for 9 months until the actress could give birth.

Da na da na da na da na Bat Eyes!

These are both subjectively true.

Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.

IIRC the NK soldiers have been fighting (and dying) in the Ukrainian occupied parts of Russia, and haven’t been deployed to the Russian occupied parts of Ukraine yet.

In ancient Rome, the sitting emperor often would choose a successor from, well anybody really, often not even a relation. They then adopted that person. If one has to have hereditary rulers, this seems a fairly sensible way to go about it.

“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”

That would appear to include rape now.

This very much depends on your level of skill, experience and awareness of the dunning-kruger effect.

Not sure how your feed is organised, but on mine mohodeve’s comment is directly below yours. Or is that what you consider a boring average high school experience?

Don’t overlook the Dong peers.

Could be fighting a losing battle. https://vxtwitter.com/CachideSandra/status/1835768543469547973?t=9aA8IONoZaXCw1yv4tVupQ&s=19

“Queer” is probably the only one that has (mostly?) been.