If it looks like a cobra, it’s a cobra, and if it looks like a viper, it’s a viper.

The part where they convinced people this is a real law.

It’s an epidemic of “how do we cut staff by 15-20% without paying millions in severance” with no regard to what it means for the company beyond the next four fiscal quarters.

I’ve often heard it’s misunderstood and used in inappropriate situations, but it’s still a real phenomenon.

Like laypeople tossing around “OCD” when they shouldn’t. Absolutely real, but not in the same way that it’s commonly used.

The security of their bank balance.

‘People who spend too much time on Facebook’ overlaps with ‘People who need cheap lawyers.’

Turtle with a runny nose.

Well they say all new tech is driven by the porn industry, so, um…

“I’m a lone wolf.”

OK, so you’re too useless and/or immature to pull your own weight among your group and they kicked you out?

How do I delete someone else’s comment?

We can start with the opposite: deflation.

If your money is worth less today than it will be tomorrow, you won’t spend it. Burying every extra penny in your back yard would be the optimal saving strategy. But if nobody spent money outside the absolute essentials, commerce would grind to a halt. No jobs, no entertainment, no standard of living.

So the central bank wants a little inflation. It encourages people to spend some, powering the economy. Too much is bad, though, so they target 2-3% annually. The number of levers and dials they have to make that happen is finite, so it doesn’t always fall in that range over a given short time period, but it’s pretty accurate in the long term.

By printing more/less money, or making borrowing easier/harder (the fed rate, in the US), they can influence the amount of cash floating around to try to keep things in that ideal range.

Whether a currency-based economy is the best way to distribute resources is a whole different discussion, but every modern society works essentially this way.

The neo-nazi playbook is to use benign language to soften their otherwise unpalatable ideology.

Want to create an echo-chamber where the worst politicians can do whatever they want? “States rights”.
Want to disguise the racism as patriotic? “America first”.
Want to be able to say anything, any time, and play the victim card when people call out the bullshit? “Free speech”.

All the intricate rules of Calvinball.

BBD (best by date) is going to be 1 year, or some other legally specified number of days, from the date of manufacturing/canning. It can fall on the end of a month, but not intentionally. 28-Mar-2025 was a Friday.

I bought the whole sensor, I’m gonna use the whole sensor.

I still vote for 3.

The 7 above is also missing some dots on the right, so there’s an entire vertical strip of erased ink. The numbers are up to 5 dots wide, but the existing 3 only has 4 dots on the bottom. It’s possible that a fifth is supposed to be there one spot higher, matching the missing number, but it just got clipped by the erased part.

It’s like the saying, “is it wrong because it’s illegal, or is it illegal because it’s wrong?” It’s a recognition that the law doesn’t perfectly overlap what’s morally correct.

Anti-heroes live in that ‘moral-but-not-legal’ area. Contrast that with people who bend the written law to serve immoral ends. Fascists tend to be Lawful Evil.

I would go even older, back to the 60s-70s. Some absolutely gorgeous cars, but the thought of actually driving one puts me off. Horribly inefficient, no modern safety features or comforts. It would be little more than an expensive driveway trophy, and that’s just wasteful.