1. Place in bucket
2. Break bottle with hammer
3. Grab your favorite silly straw
4. Betray yourself

Back when I was in Boy Scouts we’d see these giant inflated turds on a lake, lovingly called “The Blob”. It was the same basic concept as this, but the goal was a more vertical trajectory, and the jump onto the blob was much higher (at least to my memory it was).

One time my dad and I decided to do The Blob, and he wanted to launch me. Guest how high a 12-year old skinny kid goes when his ~250-lbs dad jumps?

After about a week I hit the murky lake water with the side of my face and swore off that cursed slug forever.

I still think it’s a really cool concept and a great lesson on physics, even for onlookers, but you won’t catch me on one of those again. At least the horizontal one in the gif is mostly contained in walls, so the trajectory is controlled. The lake one is more or less an oblong balloon sitting on the water’s surface, and the lifeguards tell the projectile generally where to lie.

Edit: here’s a random pic I found

Exactly the same with me. Very occasional Mint user. I will never touch Win11, so when Win10 hits EoL I’m screwed if I haven’t learned to deal with the friction of learning Linux.

I may end up regressing to a PC-less monke until I figure it out. Windows can kiss my primate ass.

Only one thing to add to that: his voice must be heavily controlled. Not taken away of course, but he must not be allowed to pontificate to his drooling followers. He’s never been shy about embracing stochastic terror while a free man; imagine his behavior when he has less to lose.

The only people (other than fellow inmates) listening to him should be the prison guards. And when he complains that he’s being treated unfairly with his uncomfy bed or whatever, they can silently gesture to all the identical cells around him for the hundredth time.

Maybe when he’s lost the one thing that gives him a sense of power he’ll be forced to attempt some kind of introspection, and hopefully find the tiniest kernel of empathy.

Or I can just wake up from my daydreaming.

Man, if you wanted me to cry you could have told me my childhood dog died a second time.

Whichever one has the drugs in it.

On a serious note, I’ll have any candy corn if you’re looking to get rid of it

I’m gonna put up decorations tonight and try to come up with a snow dance

I’m all for this pickleposting movement! Gonna buy a jar of em when I get off work.

Or is that just what Big Pickle wants?

I thought it was at first too. In the U.S. (at least, here in Texas) I feel like the bigger offender is all the lifted trucks, coal-rollers, etc. Not sure how bad muscle cars are but they’re also very prevalent. Seems like every 5th person in my city has a Mustang or Charger with a muffler delete.

meese

Could all the republicans just drop out of the entire government since they obviously don’t want to govern? They should just skip a few steps and (ghost) write their books ffs

Bunch of toddlers

backward electoral system

Gerrymandering, disinformation, election fraud, voter intimidation by big guys with their big tough guns at the polling stations. Oh, and the arbitrary under-staffing/removal of said polling stations. Lack of ranked-choice, etc.

Sorry, going off the cuff, but I guess your choice of words covers all that. Man I’m proud embarrassed to be an American

I’ve heard of settling for second-best, but this one’s new.

Not trying to dig at you. If you enjoy it, awesome. I’m partly ashamed to admit I still hop into Skyrim every now and then, and it doubtless has more issues than SF.

On the topic of the thread, I backed SC in the past (goddamn I love the design of the M50) and I’m mega disappointed that they’ve handled it the way they have. Actually, one of my favorite quotes from David Mitchell kind of fits here:

He clearly has the level of self-respect required for such a dignified name. And I doubt he’s ever passed up an opportunity to make a quick buck.

I figured it was Bryan Cranston. If we join the revolution can he cook for us? Burgers and stuff, I mean 😉

Please drink your verification can to unmute. :)

Saying “things will not fundamentally change” was such a masterstroke, if his goal was to keep the right at their usual simmering level of hate while also upsetting most of the people who had to hold their nose to vote for him.

I can’t see how it did any favors for him, except in the eyes of the corpora- oh…

Don’t worry, that definitely wasn’t my impression. I’m glad you’re in such a position that you don’t feel the need to get high all the time. And besides, if the thing that stresses you the most is a misspoken word, it sounds like you’re doing just fine!

Man I’m sorry that that’s how you experience it. When I’m high I listen to my favorite music and zone the fuck out. The real world rarely enters my thoughts.

Often I’ll think about projects I want to work on and get mega inspired from random stuff I find on the internet. Of course, the motivation evaporates when I’m sober, but at least I took notes while I was blasted 😂

My pessimistic opinion is that they’ll lobby ths shit out of governments to get laws written which make it illegal to circumvent this stuff somehow. I’m not sure that’s even possible, but it’s my irrational fear.

If it does happen, I’ll convince myself that I don’t care about any of the content on YT. Let’s face it - 99% of the shit on there is emotionless-face-with-open-mouth-and-red-arrow/circle hot garbage. Sifting through that sewage is so exhausting.