The LFS users are still busy growing their coffee plant

Important context and a good decision

Oh, Sisco does war crimes too!

This is absolutely brilliant. Why does this not exist yet?

Needs a special kind of Captain to commit a war crime due to a traffic conflict.

The German car companies are very afraid of Chinese retaliatory tariffs on luxury cars.

Infinitely many Czech flags!

Both. There is a study by Armin Falk and Nora Szech (2013) that experimentally shows that markets can erode moral behavior, as participants were more likely to not save a mouse’s life for money in market settings. This generally extends to the erosion of morality for monetary gain in market systems. Additionally, psychological research indicates that wealthy, successful individuals often score higher on traits associated with the “dark triad” of personality, i.e. narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, which supports the idea that selection plays a role as well.

4chan at least had a consistent brand of being the anti-social network and being full of Nazis, weirdos, pedophiles and people who are just anti-social for the lulz. You couldn’t ruin 4chan.

Twitter’s image was being the “internet town-square for serious thinkers” with politicians, scientists, journalists and a small but good measure of standard shitposters. Loosing that brand diminishes it’s value massively. Unfortunately neither Bluesky nor Mastodon was able to catch that clientele yet.

Fine, Free bird it is.

It’s been a long road getting from there to here.

I hate their current abhorrent nationalism and imperialism, but their anthem is kinda great.

Plot twist: OPs father actually works at the United States Mint (but in an office job)

Worked shortly as a bike delivery guy for a small independent German bookstore. They did deliveries in the small town and you could order books by phone or email. The atmosphere in the shop was chill. The owner was an old really well-read hippie, who was really friendly.The pay was rather shit but I’d say it was overall a good job.

Yeah but people are highly aware of it and there is even a disclaimer in Email Signatures that everything is tracked. If you are dealing with government ministries in European countries some of the (unofficial) information exchange is done without written record, either at in-person conferences or even through non-work phones.

Highly illegal in the EU. Also highly stupid everywhere else. The big question is “How secure is your user espionage system and can an outsider get acces?”. The data from something like this is a social engineering goldmine.

So this school was built on an ancient Pleistocene burial ground. I know that trope well enough to know what happened next

It’s Twilight Zone, but only the twists

This contest is over. Give this man his 10,000. Dollars.

Smoking was discovered independently in many cultures with different substances used by different cultures. In the Americas, it was tobacco, while the Scythians of Central Asia used cannabis in ritualistic hotboxes, as evidenced by archaeological finds of smoking tools in kurgans. Other regions, like India and Southeast Asia, saw the smoking of opium and herbs.