Well, they’re not exactly Britney Spears, are they?

The hero we need in our times

They have chromed-up ones styled to look like a Harley-Davidson or similar, presumably for cashed-up boomers who will gladly pay to feel cool

It’s great to see the Corn Man Extended Universe.

OTOH, if this is the case, the alternative is denial.

Everyone has had situations in which they’ve avoided spending time with someone because it would have been a downer, due to that person being difficult, annoying or otherwise unpleasant. That is a thing that happens, and pretending it doesn’t won’t make it go away. The good news is that if you know that something you do gets people down and makes them less likely to make time for you, you can change it, or compensate for it in another way. If you remain in denial, that path is closed to you.

It means smoking drugs rectally, I think

If all your friends are permabusy, there’s always the possibility that it is something to do with you. Perhaps your personality is obnoxious, or your hygiene isn’t up to scratch, or you have an annoying laugh, or something else that hasn’t occurred to you but nobody is going to be the jerk to tell you to your face how exactly you suck as a person.

The Robotron KC85 had it all the way back in the 80s.

If introversion is not socially acceptable (as “creepy” implies), it follows that public healthcare systems should provide free cocaine to those afflicted.

Bernd Das Blobfish

I’ve seen the assertion that silver is a safer bet than gold. Less glitzy, but still precious and with more industrial uses.

Of course, if civilisation collapses completely, neither will matter unless someone will trade you something for your krugerrands.

As somebody else said, the US (and other societies with similar levels of customer entitlement) would be improved by universal national service in retail/hospitality

Don’t they spell the specific Jamaican language “Patwa”, to differentiate it from the idea of a patois in general?

I heard that in Kim Katsuragi’s voice

“Unlike Obama, I haven’t guiltied any galaxies to a zegnatronic rocket society”

If the stereotype of autistic people having an oversensitive sense of injustice and not accepting commonly socially accepted rationalisations justifying it are true, then that could disqualify them from police work, given that the job is about enforcing the law as it is written.

It’s Russia.

He wasn’t going to keep those 27 years anyway, and climbing the career ladder, having a few kids and steadily paying off a mortgage must have somehow not seemed like a compelling alternative

The opposite of a shitpost

America’s least woke president