Try Caleb’s approach for this sort of thing. “Are you a cannibal man?” “Well, that’s not how I would define myself. If we’re going by what I’m most passionate about, I would say that I’m a woodworker.”

Yeah, I can’t see anything else either.

I have no personal experience with this, just stuff I’ve heard online and from friends. I may well have some details wrong, but the truth is I’ve always been able to use my Visa credit card for any online shop from any country, including ones which Americans were having trouble with.

I think some shops (and maybe countries) which have a strong trade/tourism relationship with USA will just go out of their way to support American “non-international” cards. Whether that is the case for you in New Zealand, I can’t say.

I don’t have much stake here and I admit I could have gotten something wrong.

This is a common misunderstanding that Americans have. The truth is that American banks issue domestic-only cards that cannot be used outside of the USA. You can get an international credit card and it works everywhere.

In most other countries, certainly where I live (Israel), all credit cards are intentional by default and they work wherever you go in the world.

So the truth is that, as is often the case, USA with American exceptionalism has created an incompatible system to everyone else, and then suffers the consequences.

Not me: I don’t understand what is being said here, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. What is this comic trying to say? I really can’t figure out a cohesive statement.

“That comes near them” is a crucial qualifier. If you leave them alone, they leave you alone.

I don’t think this answers your question, but this might interest you if you haven’t heard of it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese

It’s an island with a tribe of people who have no contact with the rest of the world.

Ooh, I love Mitchell and Webb! Though their newer sketch show, true to its name, is not helping. For some reason they decided to sprinkle in very few hits with a lot of misses.

Beat me to it! It’s not my favorite sketch of theirs, but any excuse to share a Chris and Jack video is good :)

To the uninitiated: Jack was the voice of Sokka in AtLA. Chris was a Blue Man.

Not fucking safe for work.

How can you be sure? I think we need to do it and run the experiment in order to find out.

Whoops, yes.

I think we should put all the religious people in half the countries and all the atheistic people in the other half. Both kinds of countries can form whatever borders and laws and politics, I don’t care about that. But if you became religious in an atheistic country you’d be banished to a religious country, and vice versa.

There would be people who could go either way (agnostic or what have you), don’t ask me about the details and the logistics of it. But there CANNOT be a country that contains both a totally atheistic person and a devout religious person. It would be strictly enforced, no exceptions. Never the twine shall meet!

(not a real answer) corporate art / art by committee

If I’m near an open window, I might have an intrusive thought of “what if I accidentally chuck my phone out the window?”

I have no idea how anything like that could happen accidentally. I grip my phone tighter.

I recommend this video by Sixty Symbols, the same production of Numberphile and Computerphile in case you’ve heard of them.

But basically, when atoms are close enough to each other they attract each other (van der Waals force), which can cause things to stick to each other even without chemical bonds.

I don’t know if it’s that crazy. The form factor of laptops, and computers for that matter, has pretty much stayed the same for many decades and still going strong. It’s entirely possible that this slab phone form factor will stick around forever.

Off the top of my head, random list of older things that haven’t significantly changed form factor in forever:

• Writing tools (pens, pencils)
• Notebooks
• Chairs, sofas
• Cars (pedals, steering wheel, gear stick)
• Cookware (pans, pots, etc.)
• Utensils (knives, spoons, forks)
• Clothes (for men: trousers, shirt, underwear, socks, shoes, jacket/coat)
• Drawers
• Doors and door knobs/handles

Maybe some of those I’m wrong about, but certainly not all. Sometimes, a form factor just sticks around.

What about this button is anti-vandal? What kind of vandalism does this prevent?

Just that the sun is, and always has been, a higher being observing humanity. She doesn’t look at the “camera” at any point, so I don’t see it as a 4th wall thing.

Back in my day we had a saying: Don’t Feed The Trolls. This is obviously what he wants.

Find a balance between letting other users know who he is in the comments, and not engaging with him.