It’s great because A) his parents presumably named him that knowing full well what they were doing and B) He could have chosen to go by Will, William, or Bill, but actively chose to use Willie professionally.

I can see the thumbnail from Pawb (on desktop Firefox) but I can’t see the full content without following the link, for what it’s worth.

Yeah, that’s a lot less fun to imagine. :(

The thing about US exceptionalism is, it was fed to us all throughout grade school and even before. We had to recite the pledge of allegiance every day, for fuck’s sake. It’s something that has to be unlearned now, and a lot of folks just don’t want to, or don’t care to, or don’t even realize that it was a load of bullshit. Honestly the internet is probably the only exposure to other cultures most of us have (that’s certainly true for me), so folks who aren’t active in internet spaces other than, like, Facebook and whatnot might never have talked to anyone from another country in their whole lives.

I mean, rides in boats aren’t expensive either if you don’t own the boat.

The ruined alliteration is mildly annoying to me!

Beans, bacon, booze and… blubber?

Now I’m imagining a room full of people swallowing battery after battery to test this product.

I think that would require a grasp of how brains work that we simply don’t have.

It was a joke, mate. Just like I assume OP is. Nobody’s actually doing that. :P

No.

No, but I’d definitely put that necklace on anyway. Not like the baby knew anything about religion, but it still worked for him; should work for me, too.

I’m “lazy” in that same way and I always bring it up when I’m asked what my strengths are in interviews. I don’t like doing unnecessary work. I will be the one automating tasks and finding more efficient ways to do things while other people are wasting their time doing it the long way, purely because I want to waste less time on it.

AI agent tomorrow: “I noticed you kept stopping my task before it completed, so this morning, I started it at 5AM, so it would be done when you woke up.”

Shh. Don’t let the tweakers hear you. We’re recruiting an army here.

He’s been bringing the items on that plate one at a time for the past 15 minutes and he’s still got a bunch more to go; I hope you’re going to tip well.

Not OP but pretty sure the implication is that the carbon foorprint from eating meat is ridiculously higher than what you’d save through either of the two examples they gave. Had nothing to do with oil, but they mention petroleum and carbon.

*notices your soul* OwO what’s this?

Looks like a disembowelment.

Gee, I wonder if that’s got anything to do with the extreme enshittification the industry is seeing. It’s almost as though younger people are less likely to be able to afford increasingly expensive luxuries right now.

There’s an old joke that uses this premise.

President Bush was briefed on the war this morning. He was told that 3 Brazilian solders were killed in Iraq.

To everyone’s amazement, all the color drained from the President’s face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost in tears.

Finally, he composed himself and asked, “Just exactly how many is a Brazilian?”