Bah, why even go to that much trouble when they can just ask AI what the results of an election would be?

At least they didn’t use “insurgent” in the headline, I suppose.

The Sopranos did this in one early episode. Dude shoots another dude in a car and is immediately like “FUCK!” and holding his ears. Rest of the series is dudes casually blazing away and “I’m all itchy!”

Department of Just Us

They put the “profa” in “prophylactic”.

I had the rim of my rear wheel crack last week, first time I’ve ever had a wheel problem in 20 years/100K miles of riding.

I have a 20-year-old Trek 4200 with about 70K miles on it. The thing is fucking immortal and it wasn’t even close to being a top-end bike in 2006 (I think it cost around $500 new). Drivetrain, tires and brakes are the only things I’ve ever replaced, obviously many times over.

I went to a Hooter’s once a couple of years after 9/11. I noticed that their hottest wing sauce was called “911” and as a joke I called the waitress over and showed her the menu and said I was pretty offended that Hooter’s would name a wing sauce after our “sacred tragedy”. She got all wide-eyed and insisted they were named after the emergency phone number, and then ran off and got her manager to come over. The dude apologized left and right and comped our whole table and gave me $200 in Hooter’s gift certificates. At that point I didn’t think I could safely admit it was a joke without getting my ass kicked, so we thanked him and left.

I still have the gift certificates somewhere. I didn’t not use them because I was ashamed of myself – Hooter’s food just sucks so bad I never happened to go back.

Fun Eiffel Tower fact: for the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, Eiffel offered to build a duplicate of his Parisian tower built four years earlier, but twice as tall. Chicago went with the Ferris Wheel instead, saving us from Eiffel Bueller’s Day Off.

Meanwhile, I never even knew what an em-dash was until I started reading about AI. I always just used hyphens in the same way. Now I use em-dashes and everybody thinks I’m AI – oh the ironing.

The constitution isn’t even legible any more since trump has wiped his ass with it so many times.

You leave useful, functional toilet paper out of this. Jeffries is basically Chthulu in a suit.

The notion of us (the US) winning a real war when we don’t fucking make anything any more is beyond ludicrous. We won WWII (and WWI for that matter) because we made nearly fucking everything at the time. And whatever we didn’t make we could have made if necessary.

No tolls only fees!

My joke comment was based on love! I actually started my professional career with VB (3 no less) and it was an excellent language for what it was good for, mainly building good UIs. Sure, it could be – and was – used to create unearthly horrors, but that’s true of every language and platform.

Don’t cry, babe – at least I didn’t say Visual Basic.

Wow, this is a tough one. I can’t decide whether young Spencer Pratt from The Hills had a more punchable face than current Spencer Pratt.

“Flaming death cheese sandwich”

Ironically, my grilled cheese method is to build the sandwich open-faced, place it under the broiler to melt and brown the cheese, then fold it up and cook both sides in a pan. This allows me to fuck it up three different times instead of just once.

I don’t think it’s even “they” any more.