America has a dire prudism problem.

When I meet some shoopkeepeers who look Chinese, I have the urge to say something that sounds kinda like “knee how” but I don’t because I don’t know what that means. Freaking Babel curse, man.

Ask the French. They may have some pointers.

No rubber ducks shall be mentioned without also mentioning the techno remix of the German version of the Sesame Street’s Rubber Ducky song

It is Law.

People with those types of weird wingdings, dingbats, dinguses, doohickeys, and thingamabobs crowding their keychains always puzzle me.

Why not have proper, normal things one would use as key chains? Like:

• A length of 7 links of cobalt kiln recovery chain you found on the floor of an industrial site.
• The pin of a fire extinguisher.
• A 7gb usb flash drive in the shape of a key that used to contain an encyclopedia but that now contains a Linux boot.
• A heavy-duty rigging hook.

If we had proper anti-trust laws, Marketplace would have been a separate entity that could survive on its own, while the rest dies.

People still use them? Why?

Terms of service are unenforceable as nobody reads them.
A contract cannot be valid if one side has not read it. If one side cannot guarantee the other side has read it, it’s their onus.
Also, clicking a button that says “I accept” isn’t signing a contract. If it doesn’t have your signature or a certified digital signature, it isn’t a contract.
It’s just an “I told you so” that allows them to kick you out, like the rules at the entrance of a restaurant. It doesn’t give them the power to sue you or anything like that. It’s just covering their asses with legalese excuses. Any legal practice that claims otherwise are just legal mercenaries for the wealthy.

Not if it worked like in Beetlejuice. In that setting, when you commit suicide, you basically ‘volunteer’ for an office job for an eternity or two.

How is it even legal for a company to decide what you can or can’t install in your own device?

That’s why the right-wingers of PP and Vox are frothing at the mouth and pushing their corporate media mercenaries to lie extra hard about it all.

How a brick-and-mortar store works can’t be compared to the Internet.

Adamantium is made with vibranium and steel.
You also have Uru, which is an entirely different thing from a magical realm, kinda like Marvel’s mithril.

Their hardness, toughness, strength and magical conductivity are different, making Adamantium better for attacking, Vibranium better for defending, and Uru better for enchanting.

That’s not how the internet works.

The onus is on the users. The parents are the ones who have to figure out a way to ensure what their kid’s devices can access, or that they are educated enough not to seek it.

You gotta keep voting the lesser of two evils for the main elections, while voting for the best alternatives you can find locally.

The moment Robber Barons were first stopped, they starting working to rig things so they are never stopped again.

The only way to remind them that they have no such power is the French way.

All Tesla dealerships should be on fire by now. Now protected by a wall of obese ‘police’ that would not pass the most lenient tests to join the police force in any country of the EU.