Judging by the communist revolutions we had so far, I’m not holding my breath for that.

Sure, but none of the economies we actually have (or recently had) work like that.

That’s what I was wondering. Capitalists didn’t invent exploitation of nature, it just so happened that its worldwide adoption coincided with unprecedented technological advances. There’s quite a few examples of historical societies that exploited nature as much as they could and suffered for it.

My fridge is far too old for beeping, my stove is pretty new but doesn’t do any beeps for base functions (maybe if I used the oven’s timer function, but I can’t be bothered to learn how that works), and my kitchen is far too small for stuff like microwaves or rice cookers (wouldn’t even know where to store a rice cooker when I’m not using it …).

My oven makes a click noise when it has reached temperature, not sure if that is intentional sound design or just inherent to the mechanism. They could probably have made it noiseless if they wanted to, so I suppose it’s doing the equivalent of a beep?

My toaster and kettle don’t beep … now that I think about it, I don’t have any device that actually beeps when it’s done.

But Starbucks coffee is also burned, but more because the beans are roasted too hard (which makes sense if you’re going to pour one espresso into a pint of milk, but it sucks if you drink it without milk).

That’s not true in most of northern, central or eastern europe, and arab coffee drinkers traditionally use neither.

Now I’m a bit jealous!

Did it not work as intended, though?

Implying I don’t also hate people my age and people older than me.

It’s pretty obvious that the entire comic talks specifically about the US, so I didn’t think it was necessary to specify that in my comment.

That cop is a really good listener for a cop.

Are you saying christmas is not a candy holiday? I’m too old to go trick-or-treating, but I’m certainly not too old to buy all the tasty christmas sweets!

aggressive cluck

Tea doesn’t have that much usable caffein if you let it steep longer than maybe 3 minutes. Also, we don’t know how diluted the tea is.

They’re going to elect an authoritarian as president, surely that will bring down prices!

Same reason why neighbors don’t like hearing their neighbor’s loud music at 2am.

Sure I get it, making noise tends to be fun when you’re the noisemaker - personally I like loud music and I’m not the kind of person who goes to sleep early. But it’s the same as with anything else, you need to be considerate of other people.

Your neighbors, if they had a say.

But Harleys are already really fucking loud. Legal road vehicles without specialized function shouldn’t be that loud IMO.