Have all hexbears touched a music recording, i.e., a CD, cassette or record? I realized that people who never have are going to be an increasing segment of the population and wondered if any of us are in it.

That genuinely made my day.

Drinking out of cups. Being a Hierophant.

Hit me

I went to the totality zone of the solar eclipse and people were giving their little kids the lunar eclipse explanation, saying the earth's shadow was going to cover the moon. People who deliberately came to the event where what was going on was explained countless times got it that wrong. People back then were just as smart as us; not very. The only reason there weren't freak-outs of historical importance is that the whole thing is over before you can organize a cult around it.

Watching All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) in history class. Since Vietnam, war coverage in the US has been heavily censored, often to the point where we're just given casualty figures. I don't know how other people process those figures, but their reactions seem to me like they aren't processing them at all. The words are spoken, the number displayed on the screen and the audience waits for sports and the weather. To me, it's that number times some nightmare-fuel death from that movie.

After school came 9/11, then the Iraq invasion, then the '04 election where the democrats put up Kerry, who had voted for the war. I could vote for an instigator of that unfathomable amount of suffering or for an enabler. I wish I had just written off democrats then instead of falling for Bernie years later.

Knowing more than 3 flags is nerdery to a chud. Even if one realized what flag you were carrying, they'd have to weigh the possibility of getting punched and being told to "shut up, nerd" after announcing it. I think you'd stand a good chance of going home safely.

Are there more specific rumors as to the investigations out there that the times isn't printing? I feel like I just finished an episode and have to contend with the post-episode thread for a week.

If Journey's worst offense is looking uncool, that puts them ahead of most classic rock bands. Also now have Wheel in the Sky playing in my head and about to play it out loud, thanks (seriously).

Eddie Vedder always sounded like he was singing those songs for 20 years and had kinda sanded all the identifiable words out of the vocals, but he hadn't been. He was 26 when Ten came out. Where did he pick up that delivery?

Oh. Well then gimme a six-pack of Duff and a couple of bags of Skittles.

Mothra vs. Shadow of Mothra

It really seems like it's dying out. Or at least isn't attracting any newer Tom Cruises. Like look where we are, on a thread where the maybe-scientologist's name requires elaboration because most people aren't familiar.

Barron goes, an action movie to rescue him ensues, but when they get to him, he sides with his new drug buddies, so . . .

Still inaccurate -- 1.7% of GSW patients are there for GSW to the penis (GSWP). By only considering patients, there's a bias against GSWs where treatment was not sought. If a bullet grazes my shoulder while I was doing something I don't want known to everybody, I might try to treat it at home. GSWP? I'm going to see a doctor, a real doctor, not somebody's cousin who almost finished nursing training, an actual doctor, so the second wound ends up in the numerator and denominator while the first contributes to neither.

Moonfall. Started it on a plane 10 minutes too late to see the whole thing, came home and immediately pirated it to get closure on that garbage.

Wouldn't that be great, too? Five-base baseball with no commercials, a new World Series where the name isn't a joke and they keep the name because what's the imperial core doing to do about it?

Descartes got cartesian coordinates named after him for plotting (x,y). They tell your fifth grader to do this and he got world-famous for it.

Please don't.

I've thought about this in the context of car alarms. There was a discussion about banning car alarms in densely populated areas and somebody said that that would enable car theft and I was like [where is the two cakes emote?].

The dogs vs. fent-sniffing-machines part of the 2024 debate will be machine guns vs. drones in 2028.

I couldn't find this post and was worried that there was something horribly wrong with the Beekeeper movie and you deleted the post. Downloading now.

Who's Obama?

It was a pasty with a nip-hole so you'd think it wasn't as naughty until you looked closer. The nipple is a very steep cliff with usians -- you can show sideboob and underboob all you want and only the 700 club will get offended but nipple itself causes a bipartisan meltdown.

Don't. Not even on a plane. Not even in a place where you're supposed to lay low and only consoom physical media and where the old beach movie is one of three burned dvds.

Fingerling potatoes

Asparagus

Habs

What about a Designated Survivor situation where he, or maybe Lindell, gets the top job?

Hank is suddenly very believable and intimidatingly cooler than I.

Tag yourself, I'm the principal who just found out barron's crew conned me into another group photo.

calling it:

"Lawyer reads out the ai drivel that contributed to somebody's death in front of incredulous jurors" will be a comedy trope until 2032, when a gritty Batman reboot has its Harvey Dent do a dramatic one, sobbing with flashbacks to, I don't know, something that still provokes a response in 2032, there has to be an emotional vein around here somewhere. Teachers will complain that many of their students have made sob-reading ai drivel their whole personality.

I have way way way too many cookies. I wouldn't know what to do with 3.2 trillion cookies to begin with, but that's my production per second. I guess run for the hills and hope cookie mountain crushes all records of who owns what that could implicate me in the cookie disaster of 2024.

I eat 95% of the garbage the six companies that control the center aisles of supermarkets put out and . . . that shit can stay on the shelf. I have a line.

Skub is clearly a commodity the Pro Skub forces have monetized if not yet made a requirement for living in modern society. I find it upsetting that hexbears are even considering pro-skub allegiances.

Mind sharing more, or your sources? Not challenging you; just bored.

I'm playing Cookie Clicker and have been playing Cookie Clicker for over a decade and have no plans to ever stop playing Cookie Clicker.

Last week was a total haul at the farmers' market. This week the empanada stand was awol, the bagel chips were awol and the coffee place had no caffeinated beans.

Slow Ride is SO LONG. How do you have a song that gets its point across in 5 seconds go on for 8 minutes?