In case people were unaware, this references a real event where a man posted an ad for a man willing to be killed and eaten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

I thought futurama fought it by pushing the earth into a more distant orbit by means of robot ass blasting

He at least needs to throw in some stuff to send Dumpie on a wild goose chase, like referencing aliens in basement BS-13 or alluding to a vault filled with rare cheeto flavors

In a sort of actual parallel to this, Richard Adams claimed there was no political allegory in Watership Down, and just a story he told to his daughters.

One of the best cases for death of the author I’ve ever seen (with Bradbury’s comments about Fahrenheit 451 being a close second).

On a semi-related note, a friend of a friend got to know a Japanese woman through a mutual friend group, and apparently after finding out that he had some decent culinary skills she texted him “I want to taste your cook”.

Texas is no punishment for (wealthy, connected) guys like him. But I’m ok with it if we put him on house arrest so he can’t fly to cancun the next time people are freezing to death in his state.

Woulda been a cool easter egg to throw in for sure.

Link bc I’d forgotten the guy’s name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser

And women, and poor people, and journalists

Can you imagine if a 12 year old saved democracy with werewolf art?

Billionaires always want more, and Elon will never have a true friend or experience real love. His current stage of trying to get something real is to make stupid jokes and put on a cool guy persona. Go watch the interview where he told his advertisers to fuck off. He immediately scans the crowd to see how his “too cool for you” declaration landed.

He’s just a sad sack piece of shit but unfortunately because we still haven’t made being a billionaire illegal we all have to put up with his influence over certain aspects of the world.

Isn’t that his tail just behind the brown one to his right?

Are we allowed to deport Rafael back to Cananda if he loses?

But contrary to the prediction of SCT, such polarization did not abate among subjects highest in Numeracy; instead, it increased. This outcome supported ICT, which predicted that more Numerate subjects would use their quantitative-reasoning capacity selectively to conform their interpretation of the data to the result most consistent with their political outlooks.

I dunno if equating numeracy with intelligence is a fair read, but an interesting study nonetheless.

I can’t find the one not saluting

Unfortunately it doesn’t matter. With that kind of wealth he could (and largely has) fuck up literally everything he touches and he’ll never not have billions. The most effect he’ll experience is not being the richest on the planet.

Plus the system is rigged to count rural (and thus usually more conservative) votes more, so sane people have to turn out in greater numbers to keep sociopaths out of the white house

Japan doesn’t do potatoes but corn on pizza is popular. I’m willing to tolerate a lot of different toppings but for some reason corn just seems wrong to me

I grew up with a lot of Italian cooking and when I first went to Japan I saw a small pile of spaghetti in one of the bento lunch boxes covered with what I thought was marinara sauce. When I ate it and it turned out to be ketchup I almost spit it on the floor in shock.

Without the goofy stuff I think Cody would end up ranting like Lewis Black

Pretty sure that’s the only reason he left. He would’ve been literally dragged out of there, and facing up to a hard reality of an embarrassing moment for him was the only thing that registered in his pea brain so he had to avoid it.