Nuh uh. I’m a member of the Illuminati and WE’RE the ones who are planning the pandemic. Stop trying to steal all the credit for our hard work!

In a roundabout way, kind of, but not necessarily. If you break the word down, AN means “without” and ARCHY means “ruled by”. So you can have a MONarchy that is rule by one (mono) person, and you can have ANarchy, which is rule by no one.

Anarchists are against institutions that create or enforce authority or hierarchies. So, if an individual didn’t want their work to be FOSS or creative commons, that would be fine, but an institution that attempted to do the same thing or enforce that idea on everyone would be against Anarchist principles.

Prometheus is the best example most people would be familiar with. Fire represents knowledge, so the theme fits. Many other civilizations have myths about stealing fire, but they’re usually attributed to a generic trickster, rebel, or indigenous animal that’s viewed as cunning. In the US, this is usually a rabbit, hare, or sometimes a crow.

Besides stealing fire, a journalist, printing press operator, scribe, archivist, record-keeper, librarian, or something like that might also fit.

Some people see it as a status symbol. “I can afford to spend this much extra on clothes” is the message they want to send. In their mind, everyone wants designer clothes, but only some people can afford them.

It’s also a signal to others. They want to associate themselves only with people who can afford the same things because that means they have a similar lifestyle and don’t have to worry about members of the lower classes trying to leach off them.

If I piss in your morning coffee, and you drink it, does that mean you didn’t drink piss because it was mixed with coffee?

That’s an ampule. A chemist created it by putting a chemical in a glass test tube, then heating it with a torch to melt the glass and seal the chemical inside. When you need the chemical, you break the glass. It looks like this chemist used a clamp to make breaking the tip off of the ampule easier, implying the chemical is meant to be poured out.

The ampule could contain anything. The most common chemical to come in such an ampule is iodine, but it’s much more common for iodine to be packaged in something else nowadays.

The second most common chemical in ampule is stink bombs, but those are usually much smaller and the tip isn’t clamped because the ampule is meant to be be thrown and shattered to release its contents.

tl;dr It’s most likely full of harmless disinfectant, but you shouldn’t count on it. Give it to professionals who can safely identify it and dispose of it if needed.

Tech companies want more data. Gotta profit off their AI somehow. Probably pivoting to AI-targeted ads or something

The idea that “only violent regimes overthrow violent regimes” proves OP right.

Whenever someone brings up “believing in science” remind them that science isn’t a matter of belief, it’s a matter of understanding. The world is the way it is whether you “believe” in it or not. The world is the way it is whether you understand it or not, and life is a lot easier when you understand the world around you.

Ok, fine, you got me, it’s because I too have the donkey brains

This guy guns

My name is Dookieman; this is a shitpost

That reminds me of the post about OP hooking up with an aussie girl who told him, “I’m on the rag so you’ll hafta chuck it in me dumpah.”

Needs some raw broccoli too

Doing the right thing is perfectly easy and perfectly possible until there’s a financial incentive for it to not be easy or possible.

Unchecked corruption and endless media propaganda leading to runaway regulatory capture resulting in an untenable concentration of wealth and power into far too few individuals and organizations.

Edit: also, donkey brains 🫏 🧠

It’s like i always say, the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with two guns; that’s why police always carry a rifle in the car.

Because these hearings are televised, many of the questions are not designed to elicit an informed response that can be used to carefully weigh the issue at hand; they’re designed to produce a sound byte that be played on the evening news to drive a certain narrative.

While the idea of televising the hearings on the basis of transparency seems admirable on paper, the reality is that these hearings have been turned into an opportunity to ambush people with loaded questions to get free media points and farm twitter clips

You’re forgetting Plenty of Fish, Badoo, and Match.com, where all the rejects, toxic people, single parents of four children, and other various degenerates and undesirables go after striking out with everyone on the big three.

Often overlooked, but very relevant.

There’s also the various niche sites like Christian Mingle, Black People Meet, and Farmers Only.

No, Reese Withouterspoon