Uppercase certainly explains a lot.

Common enough that they should really make them with flared bases.

Mr lover man obviously.

They clearly state they don’t use child labour, because the little cunts are too inefficient apparently. (Multiple reports show that children are specifically used in Chinese factories, including assembly lines for Apple and Samsung, because their small hand are better at assembling components.)

It’s excellent on an artichoke pizza though.

Half the comments on Lemmy are people fact checking one another.

Welcome to being older. The magic goes and the cynisism sets in. There is still hope though. If you can clear your eyes of the razzle dazzle of unfettered consumerism, you can realise it’s a nice time to spend with those you care about. Makes it an even better time of the year. Edit. I realise that sounds too flippantly jolly. My point was that for all of human history this has been a festival to stave off the deprivations of starving and freezing. I just feel this< angle is a good way to look at it.

Hard to tell without trimming the bush.

Linoleum is also antibacterial, which is a good property for a kitchen floor.

That every time people had sex, the woman became pregnant. I thought that every sex scene in a film meant the film had to be stopped for 9 months until the actress could give birth.

Da na da na da na da na Bat Eyes!

These are both subjectively true.

Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.

You from New Zealand? Look in the mirror and say “can’t”.

In ancient Rome, the sitting emperor often would choose a successor from, well anybody really, often not even a relation. They then adopted that person. If one has to have hereditary rulers, this seems a fairly sensible way to go about it.

You can buy self-adhesive, transparent rubber dots for the glass. 3 or 4 around the edge for the glass to sit on and it won’t need to be perfectly level.

This very much depends on your level of skill, experience and awareness of the dunning-kruger effect.

You don’t already?