“Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

• Al Franken

The problem with using salt water isn’t salt buildup, it’s that it’s corrosive and will drastically shorten the lifespan of any equipment exposed to it.

I can only hope you’re a dab hand at this. It’s high time someone provided answers!

What am I looking at here? I’m guessing that’s weed?

Charlie was my first crush and I’d still let him wreck me

Instance checks out? Though that result is better than being scarred for life by ADGTH* like so many other children were.

• This can be replaced with any other Don Bluth film.

You can’t just share a story like that and not say how it ended. I’m invested now!

I’m normally a cat person, but this photo is making me doubt myself.

Many programmers who start working on new personal open source projects wrongly assume that building something cool guarantees users, fans, and revenue will follow. Maybe it’s because they have seen too many cool stories of influencers on Twitter and believe it is true.

It’s statements like these that remind me just how different the internet is for some people. I don’t think I’ve ever strayed far outside of the “look at this cool thing I made!” parts of the open source community. The idea of chasing fame and monetization isn’t really a thing in those circles, let alone “influencers” shilling content like that.

ReVanced (a patched version of the official app) is straight up better than Premium because it can get rid of all the crap corporate insists on shoving into customers’ faces. My YouTube app has a subscriptions tab (that only shows videos, not shorts or random “informative” carousels) and my profile tab with all my playlists, and nothing else.

It’s glorious in its simplicity. Why would I ever pay Google for a worse product?

Aww, but look at the little murder-blenders with their tiny needle-toes. They’re so precious!

Speaking for myself, I’m too paranoid to buy a used book from some random charity because I can’t trust they ensure the books are clean before selling them.

My family brought home a bundle of music books from some charity event when I was a kid, and it unleashed an infestation of silverfish that proved impossible to get rid of. It’s been more than twenty years and they still pop up on my parent’s walls every few months.

Edit: to be clear, I’m not blaming the charities for this. Some people use donation bins as an excuse to offload literal biohazards - just ask a Goodwill volunteer how often they receive soiled clothing. Books are simply harder to check than many other goods due to the literal hundreds of hiding spots between the pages and in the bindings.

The years of torn-up policy due to his need to destroy everything Obama had achieved was so frustrating. Any policy, good or bad, was on the chopping block and it was completely transparent why he was doing it, but the media barely covered it due to the shitshow that was the rest of his presidency.

Though Trump has never held to a deal in his life that he wasn’t forced to, and (like most narcissists) he probably assumes everyone else thinks the same way. He has no understanding of (and in fact seems to actively disbelieve in) the concept of “soft” power. He’d have torn up the Iran deal anyway because he’d prefer one backed by fear, especially since this lets him feel powerful.

Okay then, the labyrinthine structure spontaneously generates tiny minotaurs, which then consume the disease-causing miasma.

It’s also already a ninth level spell, so saying he’ll cast it at level nine is meaningless and a failed attempt to establish nerd cred.

In Starsector markets have infinite money, but the per-unit price actively drops the more of a good you offer. Combined with sky-high taxes if you’re not selling on the black market (which has its own gotchas), this makes it impractical to earn a profit off of hoarding a single good. You’re expected to watch the intel feed for market shortages and take advantage of their desperation if you want to make it as a bulk trader. Or be a little sneaky and create a shortage yourself.

It’s one of only a few games where trading requires more than finding a good route and traveling back and forth. It’s surprisingly fleshed out for a title that’s mostly focused on combat.

“M-O-O-N, that spells ‘sword!’”

Metal Gear Solid had a weird halfway version of this: you would automatically eat a ration and heal when taking a fatal hit, but only if it was equipped in the active item slot. It was always fun to get an unexpected game over because you forgot to swap items back before a boss battle.

That scene where Cypher is eating a steak and wondering what the real thing tastes like, except his is well done and slathered with ketchup.

Except those imports were used by a huge section of code you temporarily commented out, and now you’ll need to manually select a dozen imports to get it working again when you come back to it.

(Sure you could have just commented out the unused imports, but the linter auto-sorted them and you’re feeling too lazy to copy-paste a dozen scattered lines)

Bric hard indeed.