Bumfights, but it’s rich people fighting instead of homeless people. Also it’s a cage match, they aren’t volunteering, and it’s to the death.

when you actually look for food there are plenty of great places.

This is the key. In my experience, the larger, more obvious places are mediocre, but the small holes in the wall you could easily walk past and never realize they’re there have some fucking amazing food more often than not.

He looks perfectly gentlemanly. Bet those chest feathers are nice and soft to lay against, too.

Sorry, buddy - can’t get him for perjury, or anything else - those were official acts as president, and don’t you know those are immune to scrutiny?

If this was a human encouraging him to suicide this wouldn’t be newsworthy…

Like hell it wouldn’t, do you live under a rock?

Thanks, I hate it.

My favorite experience with this was driving on a two-lane highway with a good bit of traffic in both lanes, going maybe 5 under the speed limit (and driving right behind another car in front, so it’s not like we could have gone faster). Car comes up behind, weaving from lane to lane slowly advancing, and ends up behind us. Rides our ass for a good 45-60 seconds, doing that thing where they start to move into the other lane, realizes (when they have a better view) that that lane isn’t going any faster and there isn’t an opening to pass, then pulls back in behind us, and repeats that for a while.

Finally they saw an opening and pull into the other lane, zips past us, and pulls in in front of the car in front of us. Blue lights come on instantly. We had apparently been driving behind an unmarked police car and didn’t know it. We got to look real smug when we passed the asshole driver after they pulled over.

Couple years ago, lightning struck a tree on our neighbor’s property across the street. We didn’t see the strike, but we heard it; the tree basically exploded. Some of the branches fell onto the power lines and started an electrical fire, so it was a whole big thing. Bunch of people standing out on their driveways watching the police and fire department trying to deal with it.

The company’s name was registered in September 2023, according to Australia’s business regulator, having originally launching under the name Slim Shade.

Wonder how that conversation went. “We can’t use Slim Shade, it’s too close to Slim Shady, Eminem will sue. I know, what about Swim Shady? That’s much better.”

Legitimately thought this was on NonCredible Defense until I read your comment and checked where I was.

Relevant SMBC

I still count The Second Dream among the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had. I agree with you that the only reason it worked is because the game was so plotless until that point, but it’s not like the game wasn’t fun until then - it was just fun for reasons other than story. If the moment to moment gameplay hadn’t been engaging, having the big reveal be tens or hundreds of hours into the experience wouldn’t have worked at all.

The game Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is another example of this sort of thing… There’s a moment near the end that hits really hard, and I feel like the whole design discussion for the game focused on that moment and the rest of the game was just a vessel to get the player to the point where it would hit hardest, and it does a great job of that. It’s only a 4 hour experience, though, not a 40+ hour one.

Oh, man - when your defense has to boil down to “Yeah but sexually exploiting kids isn’t really that bad…”, you know you’re fucked.

If it comes out that the entire Trump presidential run was masterminded from the ground up to cover for all the rich people visiting Epstein’s island… I won’t even be surprised at this point. Not even a little bit.

If someone calls up Bank of America’s customer service and asks if they should eat a mushroom they found in their back yard, and the rep confidently tells them “yes”, do you think the response should be “Well, it’s not the rep’s fault you listened to their advice, you should have known that Bank of America isn’t a good source for mycology information”, or “That rep should have said ‘I don’t know, ask someone qualified’”?

I’d argue that it’s at least 50% on the person who gave the advice.

While I understand what you’re trying to say, it should be on the owner of the software to ensure that the AI won’t confidently answer questions it isn’t qualified to answer, not on the end user to review the documentation and see if every question they want to ask is one they can trust the AI on.

Massachusetts has had for a while a subsidy on new heat pump installations, which sounds great! We looked into getting one. Heat pumps in MA cost considerably more than in the rest of the country, because installers have largely increased what they charge to capture that subsidy for themselves as extra profit.

I predict the same effect here, with private insurance.

Quentin Tarantino, who wrote a character that had to suck tequila off of Salma Hayek’s toes into From Dusk Til Dawn, then cast himself in that role.

Okay, be honest - you’re doing some sort of lemmy ban speedrun challenge, aren’t you.

If you want a buzz cut (something you can do with clippers and a single length attachment), doing it yourself is really no problem at all. If you want something more complex, you probably want to see a professional.