If not cookie, why cookie shaped?!

Now now, Horizon also has Varl.

Sounds like the average D&D party

Whoa, a L4D meme? How vintage!

Oh the laws are completely unenforceable, they’re basically just a blank check to go after any website the ruling class dislikes.

The article names multiple sites that have already shut down due to the UKs law

Eugen issued a statement that Mastodon is physically incapable of implementing age verification and that thedecentralized nature of the fediverse means there is no central authority that can block regions which define these laws.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/

IANAL, but I imagine under the laws, they would go after individual instance owners to mandate verification. The laws have no provision for third party software, so it would fall to the courts, but most instances don’t have the funds to fight it.

This is one of my favorite character tropes. Like Shia Lebouf’s character in I Robot, or Spock in Star Trek 4.

Straight sizes (xs - xxxl) vs Plus sizes (0x - 5x)

Designers create garments for one size (typically Large), and then scale it down and up for the other sizes, but above a certain threshold that doesn’t proportion correctly, so plus sizes are scaled from 2x.

The term “straight” here was originally opposed to curved.

If it weren’t for the skin incinerating temperature, it’d probably feel like softened caramel

This video would be better as a blog post, but of course then it couldn’t have been monetized.

Do it again with record lows and the map will invert.

You were doing so good until the last sentence.

The requirement that teachers be puritanical saints outside of school is just as toxic.

Any ship built in the last ten years has onboard waste processing facilities and water desalination plants. The only thing that goes back into the ocean is purified graywater, and ash. Plastics are stowed until they return to land.

The way the ships are built was drastically changed in the last decade because of the big lawsuits that Carnival got smacked within 2016 and 2019. There’s some pretty neat videos on YouTube about how Disney’s ships handle trash and human waste. It’s sorted better than most metropolitan waste companies.

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Now hold up, there is a pretty clear cadence and tone difference between Kronk and Joe. Joe is not a himbo, he takes himself seriously and is often sick of Peter’s shit. Kronk is more like MCU Thor, he’s an airhead. The two talk quite differently

When I worked box office, if two kids in a trenchcoat tried to get a ticket to an R rated film, I would have comped them the ticket just for the lols.

When tap-to-pay became a thing, Walmart went all in on building their own payment system instead, because Apple Pay and Google Pay both get a portion of the credit card transaction fees.

By pushing everyone through Walmart Pay, THEY get that portion, and can collect interest on any cash back stored in the customers account (just like Starbucks).

Of course, anyone who just wants to use the nfc on their credit card gets fucked over

There are 85 locations remaining in the united states. Thats down from 270 in the 90s. There are only four in California where I live.

They got bought up by private equity and gutted, just like red lobster.

Third spaces were much more common before the 2000s. Coffee shops where you could hang out with friends were actually a thing in the 90s. Open mic nights and karaoke. I remember we had a common ritual at the book store I worked where everyone who closed would meet up at TGI Fridays for late night drinks, TGIF doesn’t even exist any more. I used to meet up with a bunch of friends at Dennys every Thursday night, and then it fucking closed.