What's actually news worthy is that TSA managed to catch this. Their success rate is abysmal, so I'm sure this is a big confidence boost for them.

I think the big takeaway is that there are no sides to the matter, even if it's easier to empathize with one over the other, so the meme still stands on the empathy part.

The "antagonist" of the whole thing is that they both failed to communicate with each other. Which isn't weird, Max is a teenager experiencing a lot of stuff for the first time, and Goofy is scared for his relationship with his son, having to be a single dad, and never raising a teenager before.

The major issue at hand is that Goofy might as well be a minor deity of extreme luck (good and bad), so normal child/parent friction turns into being attacked by Bigfoot while later becoming an integral part of a huge concert.

For a while there was a persistent myth that black people had an extra muscle in their leg that allowed them to perform better at sports.

It's kind of similar to phrenology in trying to justify racism.

Nomads from Cyberpunk 2020/2077 were not on my bingo card for this year.

If Elon Musk is looking for more money pits to throw cash into, baseless law suits against Disney is certainly the way to go.

I'm still stuck on him suggesting a submachine gun for police use, especially having also criticized submachine guns as promoting inaccuracy.

The guards that patrol the ice wall.

Entirety of NASA. Entirety of NOAA. Meteorologists. Cartographers. Everyone who works on Google Earth. Every engineer who works on satellites, rockets, and planes. Physicists.

However, I do think 10% is probably too high an estimate. While these are a lot of people in a lot of areas, they represent pretty small demographics each.

As horrendous as this ruling is, I'm also pissed at the pro-forced birthers that are upset by this ruling. It's so intellectually dishonest to object to this ruling when it uses the same justifications they use to oppose abortion.

These people pick issues to be passionate on but never actually put in the effort to research. And not just whether their position makes any sense, but what the downstream effects of the position would mean.

The politicians who write these anti-abortion laws are even more lazy. This is literally their job and they should have seen this coming. They could have put in exceptions for IVF from the get-go but they didn't, because they are more interested in winning points than writing effective legislation.

Yea, the term is a "straight man" although this is slightly different in that the straight man is usually allowed to acknowledge the antics of the comedic characters, where-as Michael Caine treats the comedy as done straight.

I guess it would be a sub-category of straight man though, not a different thing to itself.

In the 2004 Bard's Tale game you keep running across kids who die thinking they are they chosen one.

And then trows (basically goblins) come out and sing an oompa loompa style song mocking the kids.

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

There's also Cleo from Math StackExchange. They'd drop answers to complex problems in a couple of hours with no work shown. It took another mathematician days and several pages of work to prove out one of Cleo's answers.

One time Anakin lost R2 in a space battle and insisted on a rescue mission. He was told no, because it's a droid, and then Anakin had to explain that he never wipes R2's memory banks and R2 has accumulated massive amounts of sensitive intel for the Republic military.

What Anakin doesn't mention is the alarming amount of info R2 has on the Jedi, Anakin and Padme's personal life, Naboo, the Senate, and whatever Separatist data is in whatever systems R2 is hacking into that week.

At that point, Leia giving R2 the Death Star plans is basically par for the course.

I had gay couples explained to me as a kid over twenty years ago and understood it no problem.

Geometry on the other hand, I still struggle with...

Subsistence wage is what you are thinking of, to meet basic biological necessities. A living wage allows for moderate comfort, because there is more to living than just surviving.

It's called Morgan's Wonderland. The father's company has also built a community center next to the park.

If it's a celestial warlock they might be a sub-contractor for the paladin's deity of choice!

It's weird to me that vanilla and chocolate have a similar history and applications but vanilla got designated as plain and boring at some point.

It's like the hood scene in Django Unchained. But even dumber.

Easy and legal access to exorcisms just incentivizes people to fraternize with demons. People need to understand there are consequences to reckless behavior.