Medullah posted:

VitalSigns posted:

Pretty much yeah, except I'm guessing the Babylon Bee approves

Magnetic North posted:

I keep seeing seemingly innocuous memes from them, and I think they are trying to put out non-offensive memes as a trojan horse for their fascist bigotry. I guess it's one step to ironic memes.

soviet elsa posted:

I'm not bright enough to know for sure but DEW to me means Directed Energy Weapon. So you know, lasers, microwaves, the Havana Sydrome blast that Brandon himself is about to send to all the true patriots. That sort of thing.

No idea why Moses is the person behind it all, and Passover in 24 is in late April so really God help us all

Crunch Buttsteak posted:

The used auto place down the street changed their sign from an advertisement for the local anime/games convention to say "are we going to have another plague released for Trump vs Biden 2024?" So the psyche of the American small business owner sure appears to be in a place right now

VitalSigns posted:

Pretty much yeah, except I'm guessing the Babylon Bee approves

Medullah posted:

The Islamic Shock posted:

I'm the most powerful man in the world and I'm intentionally destroying the place that is giving me that power, a lot of money, and has all my stuff in it

That's fictional supervillain poo poo. Dick Dastardly legitimately had the fastest car and lost anyway, the Daleks would have nothing left to do and forever to do it in after achieving their goals, poo poo like that

darthbob88 posted:

Also, why is Biden allegedly destroying the country? How would he benefit from what he's doing? Or do they just think he is a fictional supervillain who does evil because he's evil?

The Islamic Shock posted:

I'm the most powerful man in the world and I'm intentionally destroying the place that is giving me that power, a lot of money, and has all my stuff in it

That's fictional supervillain poo poo. Dick Dastardly legitimately had the fastest car and lost anyway, the Daleks would have nothing left to do and forever to do it in after achieving their goals, poo poo like that

darthbob88 posted:

Also, why is Biden allegedly destroying the country? How would he benefit from what he's doing? Or do they just think he is a fictional supervillain who does evil because he's evil?

quote:

Why did God create evil? A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
- Everything that exists was created by God?
One student bravely answered:
- Yes, created by God.
- Did God create everything? - a professor asked.
“Yes, sir,” replied the student.
The professor asked :
- If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.
The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
- Can I ask you a question, professor?
"Of course," replied the professor.
A student got up and asked:
- Professor, is cold a thing?
- What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?
Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered:
- Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
A student continued:
- Professor, does darkness exist?
— Of course it exists.
- You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
- Sir, does evil exist?
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
- Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.

Panfilo posted:

Oldie but goodie

darthbob88 posted:

Also, why is Biden allegedly destroying the country? How would he benefit from what he's doing? Or do they just think he is a fictional supervillain who does evil because he's evil?

Panfilo posted:

Oldie but goodie

quote:

In my first job with a large and well-known organization, I was hired at the same time as a woman my age. (We were both in our twenties.) There were about 20 people in our division, most of them men. The women tended to be tough, no-nonsense types.

At the first full staff conference I attended, about six months after being hired, our manager asked us for ideas about how our workplace might be improved. We were all seated around a large long table.

The woman who had been hired at the same time I had raised her hand and suggested that it might be a good idea for supervisors to provide more verbal encouragement and positive feedback to employees.

The room went quiet. Our manager looked confused. Finally, a long-time employee of the organization, a Vietnam vet in his 50s sitting directly across from the woman, took a small yellow envelope out of his suit pocket (which we all recognized as the envelope in which our paychecks were mailed), leaned across the table, held the check about a foot from her face, and said, "Honey, this is the only loving feedback you're ever going to need."

It was a different time.

Panfilo posted:

Here's another

InsertPotPun posted:

i watched a vanity project film about an old man that goes back to college and on his very first day of biology class he outwits the teacher by asking "how much does evolution weigh? what are its properties?"
the teacher had announced she had been teaching for twenty years and had absolutely no response to these hard hitting questions.
can't tell me how much evolution weighs? get hosed teachailures.
she was so impressed she tried to have evil godless sex with him. the actor was also the writer/director/producer

Guavanaut posted:

One evolution, please!

Guavanaut posted:

I think half of this stuff comes from wanting to believe in a narrative driven world where you just have to believe things over an analysis driven one where you have to do poo poo.

And the other half comes from having civic systems so broken that it's easier to believe in magic than expect someone to invest in new infrastructure.

disposablewords posted:

So am I supposed to, what, admire that guy being a self-important tool? That people can't understand the idea of "knowing what you're doing right is useful"? It sounds like a lovely-rear end workplace where tons of problems with whatever they did just slid on by because nobody was getting useful information aside from the binary state of hired/fired.

Safety Dance posted:

If I recall correctly, an aluminum-mercury amalgum does grow into interesting tower-like structures, but it's also incredibly fragile. The mercury weakens the aluminum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdYueB9pY4

Safety Dance posted:

If I recall correctly, an aluminum-mercury amalgum does grow into interesting tower-like structures, but it's also incredibly fragile. The mercury weakens the aluminum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrdYueB9pY4

Magnetic North posted:

That's loving wild.

Like, we don't need to invent magic to look at the world and see cool poo poo. The world is already loving amazing, and some of it, we even know how it works!

DominoKitten posted:

You can still buy Gros Michels for an eye watering price, they’re just not mass commercially viable.

Staluigi posted:

it's a banana, dominokitten. what could it possibly cost

Magnetic North posted:

That's loving wild.

Like, we don't need to invent magic to look at the world and see cool poo poo. The world is already loving amazing, and some of it, we even know how it works!