It’s interesting that when you see them laid out like this you can more easily see the reasons people could have come to remember this way.

For instance, conflating Jif and Skippy as essentially the same product, or getting an association of missing letters from the “eat mor chik’n” cows ad campaign.

I still don’t understand what they were thinking with this

They were thinking, “damn, we can’t even afford this half of an ass with how low we bid to get this job.”

No, ancient tribes were not soviets.

So essentially, communism is defined as something that cannot exist in reality.

the separation between authoritarian and anti-authoritarian communism is very important!

They’re pretty easy to separate. One exists and the other does not.

People say that because it’s true. There is nowhere outside of a few scattered households that has ever been the platonic ideal of either communism or socialism.

Thing is, if you win at blackjack too much they kick you out and ban you (or in the old days, took you into a back room to beat you up).

They’re also generally not playing with their own money.

If the helpline hurt their bottom line, they’d have found a way around it by now.

If you want a positive return on gambling, you have to own the casino.

It’s showing how it feels not how it is. It likely doesn’t feel that good having to constantly resist an urge like that.

Also, the oblivious guy being missed by everything would be the ad blocker, not the non-gambler.

This one.

I’m not saying they aren’t. It’s still correct, though.

That doesn’t make what he said wrong.

They’re really not.

server cats

I tried to do that, but they wouldn’t let the cats in the colo.

Have you looked outside lately? Seen the news? It’s pretty god damned obvious.

Nothing, but that’s kind of the point. The masses use them as sources of crucial information anyway.

Water isn’t like in the video games. It’s still a hard landing that you wouldn’t survive if you were going too fast. There’s just much more margin for error trying to hit the ocean vs. a plot of land.

Everyone who disagrees with me is a bot.

Yeah, okay buddy.