The beer they get from Deschutes brewery and mark as Kirkland “Lager” is actually quite good.

I was out at the hardware store a while back and Christmas lights were on steep discount, and there were ten spools of lights at 90% off, and so I bought all ten of them, and that was the start of a Christmas light hobby that is verging on Clark Griswold levels of light density, and I’m feeling real good about that process.

I recall a shaggy dog version of this that ends…

I think it’s hilarious that we keep reinventing wine coolers every so often. Wine coolers, Zima, Smirnoff Ice, hard lemonade, twisted tea, hard seltzer… it’s all just neutral alcohol mixed with fruit juices and sugar, but we’ve got to keep coming up with fun new labels for it every ten to fifteen years so as to market it to the current hip young demographic.

I didn’t know this had a sequel!

I support trans people, but if one of them cut my legs off with an axe, I’d probably be a little bit upset.

I’ve said that if I went out and they were guillotining billionaires I would say “Hey, I wanted to do this with progressive taxation, single-payer healthcare, and free daycare, but you just wouldn’t compromise, so here we are!”

I remember reading a scene where a pilot is getting orders over the radio and it went something like:

Tower: I want you to return to base immediately!

Pilot: Roger.

Tower: I heard a “Roger,” but I didn’t hear a “Wilco,” now I repeat, I am ordering you to return to base!

Pilot: Roger.

Tower: [Explodes in radio transmitted fury]

Forbid Supreme Court justices from ever owning anything ever again after they become justices. Establish a community for Supreme Court justices that has nice houses, amenities, everything that they could reasonably want, and then require that they and their immediate families live in the Supreme Court compound. Anyone found violating this oath is stripped of all benefits and exiled to Scottsdale Arizona to live out the remainder of their miserable lives.

Perhaps it was a plaster cast replica of the real fossil itself.

Unexplained Ferrous Objects

I mean, I grant that there’s a pretty steep degradation from the first to the fourth, but are you annoyed by the implication that Superman could crush coal into diamond?

Word Crimes, by Weird Al Yankovic

Go squish some coal into diamonds.

It’s consistently interesting to me the way that AI image generators seem to grasp the basic concept of regular repeating patterns, but inevitably get bored and start going all wibbly wobbly. The keyboard and the striped shirt are great examples; it can tell that there should be regular, parallel groups of lines, but it quickly devolves into a dementia patient trying to draw a chess board.

I try not to think about the NES and the pile of games that I gave to my cousins because I was getting a Sega Genesis, and then a few months later I went over to visit and I asked where the NES was and they told me “We were always leaving the games out on the floor so our mom threw them all away.”

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