Bruh, I’m digging in my wire drawer or going to the thrift. I cannot imagine how people pay money for new cables of almost any sort.

Same bullshit with guns.

“Hi-tech polymer slide, boolshit, boolshit, boolshit…”

It’s fair-quality plastic, painted silver. My Smith & Wesson EZ is wearing off. :(

Been 15-years ago, but I bet an audiophile coworker, who had a physics degree, he couldn’t tell the difference in a coat hanger and proper wires.

“Well, yeah, but, bla, bla, bla…”

Now I wish I could shove that article up his butt! 😈

Installing cable TV at a man’s house, ripped his Monster coax connector off. He was appalled! (I was appalled!) Showed him what I was replacing it with. Parts guide.

“The shield is quad-woven steel. Yours was 1x of angel hair copper. The dielectric is solid, not a noodle. See? (bendy, bendy) Foil shield? Uh, did yours have one? Oh, I see the shredded bit right there!”

Bent the center conductor on his Monster cable with my pinky. “Try that with mine.” Stopped him before he hypodermic-needled himself.

tl;dr: Whatever the cable guy cuts for you is miles above Monster grade.

It’s like Yeti gear. “So you paid $35 for a cup that’s simply a vacuum sealed canister? I got a 6-pack off Amazon for $25. Cute colors too!”

I live in America and paid $0 to have both our children. No idea how that worked at the time, but it’s true.

This would have landed better when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s.

IIT: People who think they’re oh so smart.

Also ITT: Those same people thinking Trump personally hired the people redacting the files.

Kids got no imagination these days.

Here’s me, carrying the key to the white castle, while Grundle tries to eat my ass. Thank god it wasn’t Rhindle. That mf was a heat seeking missle. See that hole is his gut? That’s my hole. It was made for me!

Granddad watching me circa 1979:

“I can’t tell what’s happening.”

I’m 54. Cancer was a death sentence when I was young. Cures? LOL, how about detection? Forget it. You weren’t getting diagnosed until it was way too late. And we had jack shit for medicine once we caught it.

In the 90s magazines used to publish articles about a “silver bullet” for cancer. Exactly the sort of thing you’re talking about. We collectively woke up and realized there would never be such a thing. LOL, the articles stopped overnight. :)

Remember working with a guy in 1993 whose skin was hideous with skin cancer. Haven’t seen such a human since. Skin cancer was a pretty big deal a couple of decades ago. People regularly died of it. Now it seems mostly beaten. Haven’t heard of a person dying from skin cancer this century.

I suspect a tiny spot on my face is cancer. My body seems to have mostly beaten it. But if it ever grows again, I know they can zap it with a simple outpatient procedure. That sort of thing could have been the beginning of the end when I was a child.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d personally shit bricks if the doc found even minor cancer, but at least I’d have a chance in 2025.

Gran Torino.

Whenever these stories come out I think I’d be that guy. But once you’re given a description of yourself and your clothing?!

They’re probably like my little kids. They say they hate onions and eat them anyway. About anything from McDonald’s, chips of nearly every sort, so many foods with onion powder as part of the flavoring.

Reading it now and you’re exactly on point.

You only hear about the ridiculous lawsuits. Local lawyer used to explain it on the radio all the time.

• Media doesn’t report on the 99.98% of boring, and meritorious, lawsuits
• Judges toss frivolous cases
• Lawyers are loath to bring frivolous cases due to reputational harm, even disbarment

Our sense of risk is absurdly out of whack with reality.

JFC, people were having kids during the bubonic plague, Chinese revolts that killed millions and through two world wars. People are having kids in Ukraine and Palestine, right now.

“No! The world is too harsh!”

Meanwhile, Ukrainians are still having kids.

Westerners: “This world is too horrific!”

Rereading it right now. Fucking bizarre. At this point I just want to see what happens in the last book or two.

That pic on the right? Yeah, that’s Leto II, Paul’s son turned into, mostly, a worm, with a face and tiny hands. Also, he’s going to live about 3,500 years and turn into a mega sandworm, after forcing peace on the galaxy. I assume it gets weirder.

LSD is a whole different game. And you can’t get addicted, impossible. Trip today? Yeah, you’re not tripping again for another couple of days, no matter how much you take.

America was laughing our collective ass off when this hit:

Trump: The Game

What kills me is GenX and Boomers voting for this conman. We have no excuse not to remember America’s laughing stock, we were there.

That’s what I was taught 35-years ago, but from comments I’ve read, I gather there’s a lot of disagreement in biology these days.