[Everybody disliked that]

Knitting.

Have you ever dragged 100% wool yarn across your teeth?

This makes me feel that. Not sure why.

This makes me feel like I’m eating my own tongue. Glass is only slightly less bad.

But… document your code.

Hahahaha for who?!?

Uh… for future you!

Me to future me: lol no

Literally 1984.

Funny that we have used that so much and watered it down, people can’t take it seriously now it’s actually true.

The government is intervening here. Whatever I guess.

Sound like a Chuck Tingle novel.

‘Fucked in the Ass by Tariffs’

Sadly there are tariffs on those toys too. :(

You have to pay extra to get fucked.

This is literally how tariffs work. They don’t benefit you. They fuck you in your anus. We tried to tell you.

I haven’t, and I’ll have a look at those, thanks!

People seem to forget that GenX saw this shit and was like, no more. That’s what led to the current drive to fix this. But GenX doesn’t get credit for starting it – we’re grouped with boomers for some reason.

The rivers of fire was one major thing that contributed to the formation of the EPA, actually. In the preceding decades, if was totally normal for industry to just dump whatever waste into rivers and nobody cared.

We still have far too much pollution going on, but I feel many people have forgotten just how egregious it was before government regulations were put in place to stop shit like that.

It’s pretty bad now, but more to the point, we’re still paying for the wanton destruction wrought decades ago. And now ‘conservatives’ (air quotes because in this case, it’s the opposite) want to roll back regulations because freedom.

Rivers on fire, gay bashing, satanic panic, abortion clinic bombings, acid rain…

Shit was wild, and often not in a good way. 70s fashion was groovy, though.

I could curl up with that movie and a warm blanket if I had the flu. I wouldn’t necessarily choose it, but I wouldn’t resist it, either.

Many family movies also work. Plus Scooby doo for some reason.

It’s a good thing trump isn’t dumb enough to think US debt is easily solved by printing more money, right?

Wouldn’t that be crazy?

(I really hope this isn’t something he can actually do. It shouldn’t be possible, but neither should a lot of things he’s done.)

It’s not about making something useful. He and a few others are cloning everything any of their cult might use to further fence them in from external information and entertainment.

They’re having a harder time in entertainment, because artists tend to be more liberal, but they’re gaining ground there, too. After a certain point, they’ll just radically censor everything else.

Yeah, I feel like flared scrubs is a logistics problem. That makes good sense.

I work about 1 metre down from where I sleep (one of those loft/sleeper/desk combos where trousers only even matter during certain teleconferences, or if someone insists on watching. Nearly all my trousers are flared, because if I trip, people don’t tend to die (I’ve had no reports of that, anyway), and I also never needed scrubs. I barely need trousers on occasion.

Sorry for the demise of your fashion, but you certainly look cooler than I ever do, so there’s that.

This makes me far more angry than this image would have you believe.

I disagree, because I think all of these things address the wrong problem.

Individuals should be able to gain from their own inventions, and others shouldn’t be able to force them into poverty by stealing their IP. Corporations especially should not be incentivised to do that.

Then again, unfettered capitalism is geared towards incentivising corporations to do that.

The answer isn’t to weaken people’s already vanishing IP, but to change what’s incentivised. Also to stop treating corporations as people. They aren’t.

I guess this is good, though it’s annoying that it’s unique enough to make a headline. This should be completely uncontroversial.