My high school paid for everyone to take some type of career aptitude test. Everyone got a list of various possible career choices. Burned in my memory now is that I scored “region 99” which apparently meant my personality type didn’t fit any jobs. Or something. Like their magic 8 ball told me to try again.

That describes social media in 3 words.

If you see a Cybertruck with a trailer hitch, one jump on there by a 200 pound person could total the car.

It hurts education and foreigners, so a double whammy from their point of view. However if I were a foreigner I wouldn’t want to come to study anyways.

“I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, ‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.’ And I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,’ and I did.”

• George W Bush

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-god-told-me-to-invade-iraq-6262644.html

This one is frustrating. At the start of the war the Republicans were in favor of this. Lindsey Graham called it “the best money we’ve ever spent” in 2023. Trump alone shifted this whole issue.

I’ve had this experience and morning was like, “I’m gonna plan the trip of a lifetime to London and Paris and maybe Rome for a month or more.”

Then in the evening I’m like, “well Vegas is a cheap flight, so if I spend a night in Vegas maybe I can go to Denver too?”

Trump disinvited the Eagles after reports indicated that as few as two or three players would attend the ceremony. The mayor of Philadelphia then called Trump “a fragile egomaniac obsessed with crowd size.” The White House instead hosted a ceremony for “Eagles fans” to celebrate the American flag. When most of the 1,000 fans showed up in business suits and only one Eagles jersey was observed, many speculated that the event was staged.

https://www.businessinsider.com/championship-teams-trump-white-house-2019-4?op=1

So in order to protect Ukrainian land, he wants… the minerals from the land… Sounds like surrendering to the USA instead of surrendering to Russia.

Depends how easy it is to avoid using. When there are lots of choices it’s easy to switch. Hard to boycott the website that handles half of all retail in the USA.

The Last Jedi in particular sucked balls. TFA was good.

I’d force project myself like a hologram in front of a ton of enemies, get shot at for awhile, but don’t worry I’ll be fine I’m just a force projection. But then it turns out force projecting myself is really hard, so I’ll die anyway about 5 minutes later. That seems peak useless.

You never really know, it’s plausible. But I doubt it. It doesn’t seem any more likely now than it did in 2016.

Ceasefire in Gaza for a minimum of 6 weeks (if I understood the news correctly) is huge. That conflict might be close to over if we’re lucky.

That shitty host is like “WOW GET A LOAD OF THESE FREAKS” the whole time while the freaks are being welcoming and nice.

That’s literally the joke. They start with the wrong opinion then slowly educate you with the correct one.

Former NBA players Jarrett Jack and Chris Duhon are cousins.

The Daily Show had a segment Who Will Juggalos Vote for?.

Well that sucks. Harris winning would have been nice.

Wilhelm scream. It’s in everything. It’s memorable in Star Wars and Indiana Jones, but it’s in Soul Plane too.

I’ve watched far too many hours of sitcoms, because I’m recognizing a specific laugh that gets re-used over and over. It’s by far the worst on How I Met Your Mother (where I first noticed it). They’ll repeat the same laugh 2-3 times within the same episode. It’s a specific high-pitched laugh that almost sounds like the person is inhaling while laughing rather than exhaling. HIMYM doesn’t use a live audience so they re-use the same laughs for the entire run of the show.

I’m worried their operating costs are higher than they admit. They keep dumbing down the AI to make it use less energy. Right now it’s a free product that uses a crazy high amount of electricity. They don’t seem all that close to profitability.