Exactly. State level politicians have more control over your life than federal. And they are more accessible.

Hell, if you wake up early enough, you can drive to your state reps office and shit in her purse if you want and only be 30 minutes late to work.

Yes. Finder is just some app you can move files with on macOS.

Damn. You never sent in the ROFLcopter? Not even once?

A star map pointing them to the other side of the galaxy.

Hey, since this is the Sarah Silverman Show appreciation comment chain…

Can anyone tell me where to get a Tab Cola track suit? I want one for real so much.

Goblins were Chaotic. Lawful was civilized. Your adventurer was probably Lawful.

To see where this comes from you’d have to read Moorcock’s Elric saga.

My dad was born in 1932. If some fat bearded hippie had started talking “rape and whores” around women, my dad would have punched him in the face. If no woman was around, he would have just told the pudgy incel to piss off. That’s the kind of sexism that existed back then among most decent folks.

Finder is macOS equivalent of Windows Explorer (maybe, it’s been a while). I assume Linux desktop suites have various similar processes. In other words, a second optional layer (with more features) to access runtime libc file manipulation api.

Boy oh boy would you hate AppleScript. This is what I have to type to throw files in the trash instead of deleting them.

tell application ”Finder” to delete POSIX file “/full/fucking/path/to/file”

much less unheard of

Don’t fail to not use double negatives!

No wonder the responder didn’t unsuccessfully misunderstand the sentence.

I know what you meant by “state flag” but I want to be cheeky, so here goes:

We didn’t pledge to a state flag but the federal flag. But the state of Maryland has a fabulous flag, and I’m still devoted to its design all these years later.

For whatever reason, in the 70s, in Maryland, I only recall pledging allegiance in the morning at the start of school during first grade. I don’t think we did it past second grade. In any case, I took the opportunity to insert curse words. I would say it like, “I pledge allegiance to the shit, and to the asshole for which it shits.” I didn’t lower my voice either. I just figured that I would never be noticed. Thinking back, I am surmising that my teacher must have noticed at least once but just ignored it.

Is the character in the right saying the white-lettered words?

Oh, man. Vendors of OCR software can make big money now by rebranding as “AI-powered”.

Bring back mumps for teen boys! Antivaxx for the win!

I’m sorry for violating your criteria, but…

6th grade, gym class, we are all doing this new thing called “aerobics” and that hot new song on the radio is playing. The song with the chorus “My angel is a centerfold”.

Then again, that’s the year we had sex-ed, so we kids knew that adults sexually lusted after each other, so … 🤷

So interesting that you mentioned this film because when it was new to the rental market I watched it, and it was around this time that Mel had weird bigoted events in the news. I was indifferent and mostly ignorant of exactly what he did, and even so, I was skeptical and doubtful as well.

However, we liked Apocalypto so much that we started rewatching it with the director’s commentary. Mel was such a fucking ass that he ruined our enjoyment of the movie. He was incredibly disrespectful of the actors in the commentary. He was not so much disparaging of them, but he effectively communicated how unimportant they were to him and how they were nothing more than disposable objects to him.

Then I recalled those vague bad things I had heard about him in the press, and I thought, “Hmmm. Maybe this guy is a vile piece of shit.”

On the other hand, disturbed fuckheads can make great art. There might be good reason that in the old days, artists were kept on a leash by wealthy families.

Not trying to rain on your parade (pun) but you may have been getting your climate change info only from the headlines of for-profit publications which rely on advertising for income. No reputable scientific consensus report indicates we’re all going to die or anything close.

Disasters will cause more damage and food will be more expensive. That’s the effects which Americans will experience for as far as the predictions can go.

I’ll link to IPCC in a sec.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf

I stopped reading this comic back in the mid 00s because they didn’t read the Wikipedia editing guidelines, and they got scolded when they edited things incorrectly, so they tried turning their audience into getting revenge on Wikipedia somehow.

Not sure about now, but in the 80s, from 7th to 12th grade for me, I attended a federally funded USA school, and our average student tested in the top quartile of state funded schools nationwide.

https://www.dodea.edu/

Looks like this cartoonist liked visual jokes.

https://saulsteinbergfoundation.org/essay/the-new-yorker/