Eisenhower, probably

younger than on Mastodon (where it’s overwhelmingly 40+)

There’s a theory that that’s essentially what mermaids would be: an appendage on an aquatic predator shaped by evolution to attract its prey (in this case, horny sailors)

This is the “Africa” of first-world white-people rhetoric and AI-generated Facebook inspirational slop, a hypothetical war-torn, disease-ravaged wasteland, not the actual continent that exists.

Evelyn as a man’s name, if you want to be really old school.

That factoid is from a decade or two ago, when clear air turbulence was a lot rarer. Nowadays, due to global warming, turbulence coming out of nowhere is more common, and on occasion results in unbelted passengers being thrown into the ceiling and severely injured.

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His self-portrait as a sour boomer grandpa is the icing on the cake.

How do you do, fellow gamers!

Marching band music. Can’t get enough of it.

Given its scarcity, helium should be more expensive, to the point where filling party balloons with it is decadent profligacy.

It’s not meant to be funny, it’s meant to be a salve to a specific kind of soul. If you don’t feel the effects, that kind of soul isn’t yours.

You say that, but…

Having lost hope of things improving and surrendered to despair.

30 years on, that guy still had all those gadgets dangling from his belt, but now he’s the crazy old guy who lives in the junkyard

catstronaut

Slurs work like a treadmill. Technical terms start being used as slurs (“moron” and “idiot” are examples) and are replaced by new, neutral words, and the cycle begins again. We’ve had a few decades of “special” being used as a euphemism for mental disability, and that word is on its way to becoming a slur (in certain contexts, it can be used unambiguously as one).

Cats have a sense of humour. It tends towards the slapstick.

She probably does contemplate how she’d kill and eat you if you were smaller

One wonders how it manifested itself before ships were invented, or in the ancestral hunter-gatherer environment. Surely there must have been autistic nomads.