Comedian Frankie Boyle has a funny bit about blackmail sponsorships where you threaten to say negative shit about a company if they don't pay you. Like, you're watching Law & Order and suddenly it's

"Caught another pedo Sarg."

"Oh? What was he doing when you caught him?"

* faces camera *

"Eatin Walker's Crisps®" .

What IS this sub?? For the life of me I can't get a handle on how the posts here fit together. Or what most of them mean individually even.

So how ubiquitous is paid vacation time around the EU? How much could a fast food worker expect to receive if they're working full time?

There's this fantasy book where a badass warrior monk flashes back to when his teacher taught him how to fight:

A master monk is preparing to teach his young students the martial arts so he takes them out to the forest and says there is a war happening all around us. Who can tell me what it is? Finally one of the kids realizes and shouts it's the trees!

And the monk says yes and explains the resource competition and how all the trees fight to secure their place in the sunlight. Then he says "Today children, I will teach you how to war for space". And the chapter ends.

Shit was so cash. The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker

Idk that food vernacular is necessarily downstream of rigorous taxonomies at all lol.

Oh no you zoomed out to far and triggered the weird sensation. How bizarre it all is!! To know these things as little ape creatures. So small as to barely exist in a lake of space and an ocean of time. Whywhywhyhowwhyhowhowhow is any of this real???

OK well my counter story is that I move a lot for work too and I'm only slightly overweight but my upper back feels like it's going to break in half when I wake up in the mornings, and my lower back tingles like a 9 volt battery to the tongue just always. 32 yo.

I guess just do whatever and maybe your back will feel fine and maybe it won't. Just like all health advice.

This is the only thing I can't forgive. I accept that it's hard to say how long something is going to take. But when that bar reaches 100% something should happen pretty fucking snappish.

The good news is that these things pass, buddy. All things pass, and it's almost over really. This economy, this president, they won't last forever. This country, this current set of land masses, this current set of planets. It's all gonna just...pass. Gonna be just one drop in a lake of space and an ocean of time. Gonna be pressed into a microscopic crease in the fabric of a spacetime already contorted by titanic folds of incomprehensible number and arrangement. Until it can hardly be said to have happened at all.

Why has the author of that article decided to sereptitiously add "white Europeans" to that quote.

Just put what he actually said. Just put the full quote. The mf said "they" in the part that was ACTUALLY quoted. Surely that "they" had an antecedent a few sentences before, yes??? So put that! I'll decide for myself if what he really means is white Europeans.

NYC has rank choice??

Anyone know if Cuomo would have won without ranked choice? That's possible to tell right, by just counting up first picks?

You could attach the parachute lines to electric motors that could quickly reel the parachute back in.

And make the parachute semi-rigid like an umbrella so that it folds in a predictable and reversible way.

And make the anchor point where the lines attach to the motorcycle moveable. When it's deployed, the anchor point sits at the front of the bike so the chute and lines can pull the bike forward from the front. As the chute is getting close to being fully reeled in, the anchor point swings out on an arm a couple feet to the side of the bike and it gets several feet higher so that the lines and the chute are coming in from directly overhead rather than blocking the riders view.

These are just my preliminary ideas. Of course the engineering team at GM or Toyota or whoever buys this idea off me will likely want to tighten it up a bit to take into account various locale specific regulations and practical manufacturing considerations.

Haha wisdom

FUCK, was this a Dark Tower spoiler??? I keep meaning to read past the first book.

It took me a second to get it too. It's just a joke that's worded like the caption on an old fashioned 1 panel cartoon, like Far Side.

e.g. if I'd posted a picture of a man surrounded by an angry mob, he might have commented something like "in hindsight, Greg shouldn't have sold a counterfeit Mona Lisa to ALL the museums in town."

I mean, isn't it so simple to believe that things are run by the greys, and that all we have to do is trade sufficient fetal tissue to them and then we can solve our technological problems, or isn't it comforting to believe that the Jews are behind everything, or the Communist Party, or the Catholic Church, or the Mason's. [...] I believe that the truth of the matter is far more terrifying, that the real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. You know, you don't understand Monica, you don't understand Netanyahu- it's because No. Body. Is in control.

• Terrence McKenna on conspiritorial thinking

You can't actually believe that though? 11 would be ICE shooting protesters on sight. Not much room for escalation? What are you talking about?

THIS level of political nuance qualifies as torture? He boiled it down for us into TWO men's decisions and delivered it in like 300 words.

Yeah, we're cooked.

As a paladin of the light, please dm me your location because I would love to chat with you about this.

Never say a phrase like "tick paralysis" to me again.