It’s the ones who only think they know that worry me.

Like they’re unironically wholesale swallowing cultural domination.

Did you somehow get the idea that northern hemisphere countries own Christmas traditions?

I’ve seen a mall Santa. He was inside, in the air conditioning, so I think he was okay.

After this exercise I’m left wondering how are new chips designed nowadays considering that there are billions and billions of microscopic transistors in a modern chip?

You have to use one, to design one.

It probably was, but the GM was one of those “gonna do this until my lawyer finally tells me there’s no way to finesse it through the courts” guys.

I worked a job that would dock you four hours for 1 minute late.

I think that policy lasted… three weeks? Turns out if you dock someone a full morning’s pay, you won’t see them until afternoon.

It’s the I’m-pointing-at-you-with-a-pen-but-I-forgot-my-pen gesture.

Nice to know that I shouldn’t try to identify with the harmless man just trying to make his own fun.

I once heard a shopkeeper complain that furries never buy anything, swat nearby customers with their tails when they move, and smell like they’ve been walking around in a hot costume all day.

When I typed ‘CSS’ into google to get the details on how to use it, ‘grid’ was the first suggestion. 😁

“Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”

“How did you realise you hated your boyfriend”. We’re just going to treat that like a normal thing to say?

We assume that it’s the first fifteen or so years, when you don’t even have authority over your own name, are the worst.

Put me down on the horrified side.

Imagine having multiple people texting you to pick up some milk on the way home.

Hate that stupid face people make for Youtube.

Let’s suppose some fun-loving aliens lower that rock slow enough that touchdown isn’t some cataclysmic event. We now have an asteroid 60 Km across at its widest point sitting on the Earth’s surface. That surface will immediately start to experience the pressure you’d find 60 Km deep in the Earth. There are places on Earth where the solid crust extends lower than that, there are others where that’s inside the mantle.

The weight might crush the crustal plate into the mantle, in which case the effect will be very much like a supervolcano going off. Smoke, toxic gas, exploding rocks tossed hundreds of kilometres. It’ll last decades or possibly centuries. Chances are, you’ve enjoyed your last hot fudge sundae.

But maybe the crust is strong enough to support the weight - until a few hours pass and it starts to melt from pressure and heat. As it melts it compresses and flows, sending stress through neighbouring seismic fault lines and causing earthquakes, regular-size volcanic eruptions and tsunamis across a vast area. It may not be enough to destroy the environment, but it’ll be serious enough make everyone forget about global warming as an issue.

This is speculation. I’m neither a geologist nor an asteroid the size of Corsica.

I remember a scene like that where they were waiting for baby Pubert to wake up, but not Fester.

“He has my father’s eyes.”

“Gomez, take those out of his mouth.”

It’s a good argument against the intelligent design theory, isn’t it?

Those symptoms you’ve described? It’s your immune system doing that to you. On purpose, not a mistake. Nose is stuffed because you’re producing extra mucous to flush infection out of your airways. Dry throat because the tissues are inflamed to directly kill viruses using the body’s transport system. Yeah, it’s bad for you - but it’s worse for the little invaders.