Spanish wordplay: ¿Por qué está feliz la escoba? Porque siempre barriendo.

Translation: Why is the broom happy? Because it’s always sweeping (barriendo = sweeping, sounds like va riendo = goes around laughing)

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think I read that it was neurological issues in general (not just autism specifically) that weakly correlated with tylenol usage.

But yes, the next question is what were they taking tylenol for? Fevers? Infections? Some type of illness? Some factor that itself might be what contributed to the neurological problems rather than the medicine they took to relieve their symptoms?

To over-simplify, it’s like saying tylenol causes headaches with no further study, because they found a correlation between taking tylenol and having headaches. Distinguish correlation and causation. Sometimes a correlation points to a cause, oftentimes it doesn’t.

With trump and oligarchs, always look to the $$$.

Oligarchs like to do a lot of stock price manipulation so they can make bank on both the ups and the downs. Step 1. Buy stock in the competitor and short the target. Step 2. Release info/misinfo to tank the target’s share price. Step 3. Take the profit on the short and also sell the competitor stock while it’s high. Step 4. (optional depending on what you plan to manipulate next) either buy the target’s stock while it’s low if you expect it to recover quickly or leave it alone if you don’t.

And of course with trump there’s also the possibility of other factors like a) there was some “nice stock price you have there–shame if anything would happen to it” going on behind the scenes to get some “donations to the trump library” and then he would go ahead and do the thing either way, and b) Little Bobby Brainworm’s fever dreams.

It’s not saying anything about past tenses in that meme, it’s just saying that each word has two different pronunciations that rhyme with the other.

Pong, right?

I did my part! No kids.

Currently there are about 8.2 billion people on earth. When I was born it was just under 3 billion.

Comments all seem to refer to an article and this post doesn’t link to any article. ? (edit: never mind, I looked up the name and I don’t need to see anything more).

Fried in baby oil.

Yes, me too. Cursive is easier and faster to write. Though I usually print the capital letters.

I have never purchased a smartphone and don’t want one. I still prefer to use a flip phone. Their quality has improved over the years so I haven’t been forced to switch yet.

Yes, but just until I realize I’m doing it then I breathe.

Physically possessing the music that you bought, having the actual vinyl records (or later, CDs and DVDs of shows). That you don’t have to keep renewing subscriptions for to continue being able to listen to (or watch), that you can lend out or pass down to your kids or sell to a used record store, where you can buy the ones someone else sold to them. Those were the days.

Oh OK yeah I guess that was the joke. whoosh! on me.

Ironically there was an episode where Dr. Crusher did fall in love with a ghost. Of course it turned out to be a disembodied alien, but still.

OT but I just found interesting:

1st pic: Aidan = AI Dan, I guess that’s a clever name.

2nd pic: his hand melds into her hand or phases through her wrist. She calls him Thad but suspiciously he sure looks a lot like Aidan. Is ChatGPT perhaps CheatGPT? Just asking.

I don’t think I’d read it, but just looked it up and did. Or maybe I read it before and forgot–I’ve certainly heard that concept enough times, and many variations on it. The ultimate ego trip!

That’s my view too. even if reincarnation existed, it wouldn’t matter. If each life has no memory of the others, then each life is effectively a different person altogether, so from the POV of any one of those people, there is effectively no such thing as reincarnation.

Now suppose there’s some kind of ‘soul’ who the lives ‘belong to’ and will one day remember the lives, again – so what? They’re just memories. Those lives were each a separate person who no longer exists, and never knew the others or the soul.

Tin is a heavy metal.

I’d say it’s because during Biden’s term he was running a fairly basic administration and during the run-up to the election, inflation was something they (repubs) could use to rile up the base, but now not only is the election long over, there’s so much new horrible stuff every day (both real and made-up) in the spotlight that inflation pales in comparison.