🎶 Smile, darn ya, smile
You know this great world is a good world after all 🎶

This is fucking dangerous. Total watershed event.

While I would never miss the toilet, I just might miss the toilet bowl.

Thanks. I didn’t know there was a real band called “The Pipi Pickers” and I might have lived on happily without that knowledge.

Alfred Charles Kinsey, of Kinsey Reports fame, was into sounding and at least once put a toothbrush up his own urethra… with the coarse end first.

Is that a toaster?

How do they put it on?

Needs more “Yes/ Ask again later” pseudo-choices.

If you control social media, you also control who gets to see what in their feeds.

That’s great and all, but what if… what if he needs to go to the toilet?

Didn’t know there were so many albino hedgehogs.

Hey, that’s not fair, I’ve really been trying to lose weight.

In authoritarian societies, restricting education serves a purpose as a sort of anesthesia for the minds of the people. Solzhenitsyn, describing the few years just before the Great Terror of 1937 started in the Soviet Union, mostly from the perspective of a political prisoner (from Volume II, Chapter 4 of the “Gulag Archipelago” which can be found in its entirety on the web, in The Archive):

And the clock of history was striking. […] The Great Leader (having already in mind, no doubt, how many he would soon have to do away with) declared that the withering away of the state (which had been awaited virtually from 1920 on) would arrive via, believe it or not, the maximum intensification of state power! This was so unexpectedly brilliant that it was not given to every little mind to grasp it, but Vyshinsky, ever the loyal apprentice, immediately picked it up: “And this means the maximum strengthening of corrective-labor institutions.” […] And this was not some satirical magazine cracking a joke either, but was said by the Prosecutor General. […] All this was printed in black on white, but we still didn’t know how to read.¹ The year 1937 was publicly predicted and provided with a foundation.
And the hairy hand² tossed out all the frills and gewgaws too. Labor collectives? Prohibited! […] Professional and technical courses for prisoners? Dissolve them! […] Graphs, diagrams? Tear them off the wall and whitewash the walls.

1 My take: The author and his peers most definitely knew how to read, but they could not fully comprehend what was being published because of its, at that time, unparalleled egregiousness.
2 Certainly the one of Stalin.

awk-ward

Quick then Zuck, ban radical ideas like Open Source even harder from Facebook if you want to stay on Don’s good side.

Bingo. Trump already started playing with his corporate finger puppets, emboldening some, threatening others.
Same reason Zuckerberg, surely the expert on the matter, had this weird rambling about “masculine energy” very recently. What a Trumpian phrase.

I’ve seen it described by screenwriters as having the perfect script. Because everything that happens in the movie is a totally organic, logical consequence of what happened right before.

I didn’t come to rescue Rambo from you. I came here to rescue you from him.