That one I think was basically a late response to all the ways folks used to kinda find themselves on fire.

Advent and proliferation of gas stoves, cigarettes, and cool new "space-age" (hyper-flammable) building and textile materials. Probably lotsa extra reasons and compounding factors, too, frankly there was (and is) a lot to figure out lol.

You might even have found yourself on fire back then, too!

What the heck. What a fun thread lol, gonna have to finally watch this.

A few years from now I'll think for a moment, combine a few memories, and tell someone that I heard on pretty good authority that something to do with collected cow farts, arriving right there in the Bermuda Triangle, caused ships and planes to rock around violently.

By which I mean, thank you, for the confused glares from strangers, somewhere in my future.

Nearly died on a drive home from a rock climbing trip where we did tons of fun and wild (but safe) stuff on ropes, there was a car stopped perpendicular across part of a dark empty interstate in the middle of the night that we passed at full speed.

Two carloads of people had a near-death butt pucker like nothing else we'd experienced on that trip (and no clue what was going on with that car, we were long gone by the time we recovered our wits and processed not being a mangled up paste of people). Your comment resonates with me cuz I understood driving that night, lmao. It's wildly uncontrolled compared to rock climbing, with comparatively high risks of really bad outcomes in fully capricious ways. Can become a splat out of nowhere with barely a moment to consider the coming fact. Woof.

If you drink enough, the germs seem to stay away

YIKES

My now-wife hid me from police one of the first times we hung out, couldn't agree more!

Mm-hmm, less you think about it, more you drink about it, the more it works

[Edit: some say you can get bleach or even light into the body, for these problems, and maybe we should be doing that]

"gatdamn, holding out til I'm frickin screaming..."

Wait so simple direction signifier into an argumentative / rhetorical diss (one assumes, overthwert), into an adjective about being a stubborn jerk, into a verb about stubborn-jerking someone else from doing something, to thwart.

Meanwhile there's an ongoing history of whatever approximates "clinical" vocabulary for contemporary understanding of disabilities (a la idiot, imbecile, etc.) - words being originally descriptive / diagnostic, and then adapted over time for use as insults, then worse, necessitating new "unflavored" words for the (ideally merely) descriptive purposes, and the cycle repeats.

All that to say, amazing how much language changes by humans wanting to say jerky things to each other and co-opt other meanings into dickhead rhetoric over time lmao.

Some species of termite can effectively molt backwards, meaning they can physically return their bodies to a juvenile stage, AND THEN re-mature from that juvenile stage into a different adult body plan!

So adult worker (medium sized head and mandibles, etc.) -> juvenile morphology -> adult soldier (huge head and mandibles). And other forms I don't remember, think they can go back and then become something with wings, etc. - big bug changes!

And what's crazier is this is done in response to pheromones secreted by the mound's queen. Termite Queen up in the mound playing Sid Meier's Civ lol, controlling her city through different stinks! Too few soldiers after the latest bird incursion? Got a buncha workers with nothing to do? No problem, stink-compel em to go back to goo and come back as what the mound needs!

I got all this from a fairly goofy podcast a buncha years ago - be kind, anonymous grumpy expert, if this is way wrong lol

And when they start hiring juniors again, insist on onboarding those motherfuckers like you're teaching a CS degree. The young'ns deserve to learn, this is some bullshit.

Either spell the word properly, or use something else, what the fuck are you doing? Don't just glibly strait-jacket language, you're part of the ongoing decline of the internet with this bullshit.

It's okay, if Coldplay is a honeypot to lure execs onto camera to self-own

Adding to the chorus - you're a real piece of shit for taking an artist's work, REMOVING something the artist finds important, and then pretending like you've got some moral high ground here.

Go fuck yourself!

"zip ties near me", amazing, perfectly fitting for our era of unreality

The really stupid part is it probably actually COULD. Healthier, happier people are more productive and more willing to spend their time in the ways that make those people rich.

So, thereby grow the whole pie, they still take the majority of it, get even more. But they're so goddamn greedy and small-minded, they actually make it worse for themselves. To say nothing of the conditions for the rest of us, and also leaving out the way taking this too far tends to result in turmoil and (gasp) dead rich people.