Just dosing American tourists at Dublin duty free

They do really say it out loud in the text, though. It's always "We will end abuse by X" or "When Y". Even their fictional rescues are transactional, mere stepping stones to the greater goal

The only way this becomes a Board of Peace is if a private jet decides to do the funniest thing.

Firth place in swimming, and dead fucking last in nominative determinism.

That's why you get the big bucks, Satya. The fucking searing insight there, masterful.

If you see this, repost with your favourite bit of pseudohistory

Got around to watching Sinners at the weekend there and really loved it (acting, style, Buddy Guy, almost Paddywhackery free version of The Rocky Road To Dublin) but it laterally reminded me of one of the strangest conversations I've ever had in my life, that I will relate below.

I was thinking about Steam the other day, and the lesson that you can effectively build a monopoly and print money in perpetuity not by actually being particularly good or revolutionary, but by not actively gouging and fucking people over. I'm an idiot and I worked it out. Why can't Adobe?

Granted, comics is a small industry, and my sample population definitely skews Fuck-The-Man in general. But artists, as a whole, aren't high-income. They pinch pennies. And Adobe is over here going "THAT'LL BE $500 A YEAR, ASSHOLE." when CSP regularly goes on sale for $125 for a perpetual license.

Scott Adams kinda started going off the deep end when people started seeing subversion, depth and solidarity in Dilbert strips that he'd seemingly put in by mistake. He was so fucking angry that people thought his stuff was good he spent the following 25-ish years shitting himself in public.

Tinfoil time: The proliferation of extremely dubious material on Twitter means even a casual browse can leave that shit all over your machine, and thus guilty of possession of same. The dream legal situation for authoritarians: crime they can get anyone for, so they can choose who to prosecute

Preparing to get my guts rearranged (have an appointment with consultant abdominal surgeon)

The Kilbroney, gurgling down through an Glenn na Sídhe. It's pretty enough round here, I suppose

It's always weird to see Definitely Maybe in yer "Greatest Albums Of All Time" talk when generously four (and actually six, maybe seven) of the tracks are aggressively shite.

It's vital that at all times, we must know that she was No Angel™.

Rough Boy is essentially Purple Rain in a cowboy hat

But also Lemmy.

There's a finite series of Tech Innovations That Will Save Everyone, and they are apparently allocated on a rota basis.

Decade old red meat turds rattling out of Joe Rogan like a belt fed mortar as he begs Jamie to call the doctor.

Fucking *this*. Big tech loves blaming the product for what happens to the users. It's just a series of labelled black boxes, guys. Just the algorithm. Because they apparently pay millions for code with no idea what it does

Making home made doner kebab meat to go on home made pizza is the peak of high effort scumbaggery

A week into sneakily trying to learn to play drums on my kid's kit and: I'm the opposite of Christy Brown. *My* Left Foot is a piece of shit.

Thanks to Sam Altman, my old "New Year's Resolution: 1080p" is very much relevant again.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Well done, Jakey. Now they think you're a shithouse boxer, too. Oh, wait....

Nah you're fine everyone already knows

I don't really hold with thing of putting action figures inside PC cases but I'm prepared to make this exception.

I'm kinda surprised that this one did the numbers it did. I got to be the evil mirror universe version of Margot Robbie in the bath.

Bro, I'm so sick of people posting that picture of me in that forest and making me look like an asshole Ok bro, I got you

Does the American "generation" concept serve the same function as the British class system, as a way to create and sustain the ability to do a bigotry on people you aren't in any way distinct from?

It's all those "I voted for Trump and he shat directly into the mouth of my life, I didn't think he meant it" articles persuading people there's a middle ground to reach for. They're all fucking liars. They just didn't think it would happen to them and they'd take the chance again. Fuck those people

There was that meme that Zuckerberg looked like the guy in a zombie movie who's been bitten but doesn't tell anyone, and that's fine, but we really need to focus on the way Sam Altman looks like Ben Stiller's stunt double's stunt double permanently wondering if he can trust a fart

My wife is marking year 8:science exams here and honestly, several absolute crackers of answers here

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

It's not a charitable or particularly nice thing to say, but there's a solid 35-45% of typing men who really need to spend a good year just rotating the words "Hold on, is it possible that maybe I'm just a fucking dick" in their mind until the mist starts to lift for them.

Sam Altman does not, in fact, believe or do this. But he thinks *you* might, because this is how he performs "normal guy". Once you notice that every rich, powerful asshole affects sitcom dad when called upon to relate to the little people, you can't drop noticing it

So, in conclusion: these state actors, using the weapons and training of the state, to act on the intelligence of the state, and murder the perceived enemies of the state; they've actually got nothing to do with the state https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlkz7vwr4eo

It's so confusing and strange and inexplicable that Britain would choose to release the results of their investigations into an Army agent in the IRA and a UVF gang that committed over one hundred murders composed almost entirely of police and army. Why would anyone want those tied together?

Finally got these sandwiches running on Windows 11

Review: “American Canto,” Olivia Nuzzi’s much-anticipated attempt to write her way out of a reputational pit, is what most debut books are: highly uneven and largely forgettable.

My Onion country music favourite remains "Merle, Haggard". The fucking economy of it

Canonically, Werner Herzog is the prequel to Mega drive sleeper hit Herzog Zwei

I doubt @profanity.accountant has many surprises for me

Ok, N=1 and all that. Your mileage may vary. I still have a Facebook account. I just useit to look at marketplace because I'm just that kind of person. A while ago, I got a post from the nearest DUP MP up there. It was something offensively stupid, so I clicked on it to read in full.

Eschewing Bullshit Friday "deals" to go buy a drum stool from a wee family owned music shop that's been there for a million years. Got a cup of tea, a long chat about the relative merits of new and old country music, a tenner knocked off because "sure didn't I know your granda" and a better stool

I kinda got out of the habit of playing video games and listening to my own music instead of the soundtrack a few years back, but last night I found myself playing Cultic whilst listening to Chat Pile and just someone make this happen because it was perfection

I hope everyone remembers all those stories about the Kims in North Korea and the crazed propaganda. The American remake should be fucking gas craic.

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