We do what we must because we can, for the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead.)

This could have ruined someone’s Friday! Good thing it’s not Friday any more. I approve.

That’s a funny court case. Pepsi releases an ad where someone gets a fighter jet for 7,000,000 pepsi points. Someone finds they can be bought for $0.10 each, so buys that many pepsi points and asks for the jet. The court sides with Pepsi, because it’s ridiculous to think you’re getting a fighter jet for that, and afterwards Pepsi edits the commercial to make it 700,000,000 pepsi points instead.

Also Pepsi never cashed the check for the points, and they did add a “Just Kidding” disclaimer, but that wasn’t in the synopsis on Wikipedia. 700,000,000 pepsi points would cost almost double what the jet is valued at, so if someone did try the stunt again, they’d theoretically be able to get the jet to them. However, the Pentagon stated that the jet would have to be demilitarized, which includes removing its advertised feature of vertical takeoff and landing.

Pfft, I knew that from Ben 10. (I didn’t, I just recognized it as a type of bug.)

Nah, it’s just an absurd scenario. Sometimes the curtains are just blue.

It’s called touching your toes. Look it up.

It very clearly says that marriage is okay.

But they’re naturally not us for some reason, right?

Relevant Tom Scott

I dunno, I’ve never looked into them. How do they stack up against electric motors in everything else, and is the hydrogen expensive to get?

The terms are that you have to insert your license agreement text? Man.

I dunno, I still think it’s just a punchline marker.

League of Legends?

For your average art, I can see that. But movies and TV shows take a lot more than just someone with a passion. You’d need some system to decide whose movie idea is worth pursuing, and you’d need a robust mechanism to get them a team to make it with. Capatalism has a lot of flaws, yes, but at least if you write a role for a specific actor, you can pay them to do it instead of just hoping they’ll like it enough to sign on.

And yeah, we can have those systems under communism, but they don’t come automatically, so it’s not going to be instantly far better.

I interpreted it a bit differently, as if the owl was feeling “ugh, now I have to wake up early because everyone else already decided on it.”

Hmm, maybe that was it.

I think I’ve seen mac and cheese cups that ask for hot water.

Good idea. I hadn’t thought of that.

The dog is polite enough to stop chewing so you can force their mouth open, but doesn’t grasp the concept of dropping it on their own.