I feel like an intrusive thought would be more like wondering if you should intentionally drop your phone to see what happens.

Worrying about dropping your phone is actually smart and not intrusive. It’s very pragmatic to be concerned about the possibility of an accident and to try to prevent it. Some people don’t have enough of those thoughts…

As a few others have mentioned here… it’s because they were black.

I’ve personally witnessed a racist try to explain to an South Asian friend of mine that he was “OK” because there’s black people and everyone else. I was flabbergasted because this wasn’t some nazi skinhead or something, but instead was an older white gentleman.

All racism is bad. But there’s racism, and then there’s racism in the USA towards black people, which unless you’ve witnessed it, it’s hard to understand how it is a whole other level of racism.

“Under fire”? Man that sounds serious. What are they actually firing at him, though? Like how is he being penalized by being “under fire”? What does that mean?

I don’t want to sound cliche but yeah. E.T.

And there are people saying that they immediately knew it was bad. Not me. I played it for a stupid long time. When I was 12 I would play any video game for as long as I could. And I remember screen after screen of just terrible, unimaginative redundant gameplay and wondering if I was doing it wrong…

To my surprise this is actually illegal for members of Congress per the STOCK Act of 2012:

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

I was going to reply that this is totally legal but decided to fact check myself.

They all do it. There’s no other way to earn millions and millions of dollars making $174k a year…

I absolutely will click that headline. Either it’s a sad day and a hero has left us, or I get to watch one of my favorite videos again!

Holy shit! BASHED? I bet he doesn’t do that again…

Oh man if this passes it will be a “stunning rebuke”. It won’t actually do anything because the President would still have to sign it.

Wow. That’ll show 'em.

“Outcry”, you say? Better watch out or they might get “slammed” or even “face calls for”…

I wonder if they ever tried, ya know…making their food taste good?

They tried raising prices, they tried shrinkflation, they tried paying their employees as little as legally possible, they tried lowering staffing levels to the least number of employees humanly possible, they even floated the idea of surge pricing in fast food…but the whole time I’ve known Wendy’s to exist, at least in my area, the burgers have been bland and the fries have been soggy and tasteless. And I’m old enough to remember Wendy’s having a bland salad bar to go with the rest of their bland food.

I don’t think assuming that NIMBYs don’t want something in “their backyard” for moral reasons is the right take. NIMBYs by definition are selfish and just don’t want whatever it is near them. It’s “Not In My BackYard”.

The places in these red states are probably more than happy to have some more ICE mega-prisons, just in somebody else’s backyard.

How about the color corrected version?

Or is the original color variation part of the vibe?

Yeah, you’re probably right. I don’t even think Jim Beam has any information about age or years on it’s, um, plastic screwtop bottle.

Just to be safe though I’mma buy a few bottles in 2027.

So I know that Jim Beam is an entry level bourbon, and I know the story here is more about the tariffs and the relationship between the US and the rest of the world…

But genuine question: will 2027 Jim Beam be super good because it’s aged an extra year?

https://youtu.be/ZvMPBdSScbw

Yep.

“But we already have dishwashers and washing machines”

No shit, but for some reason when I put my dirty clothes in the laundry basket they don’t show up folded in my drawers without me, ya know…doing the laundry.

I enjoy the feeling of the chore being done. You have to do the chore for it to be done, though. Kind of shitty but it is what it is.

That’s cool and all, but I still have to do my dishes and laundry before I have time to get to that.

I’ve been waiting for my AI butler since the first time I watched the Jetsons, instead I get AI slop.

What’s killing me here is that this was literally a joke 35 years ago. A joke that was intended for all of society to laugh at. Everyone at the time thought this was stupid and funny. No one laughing at this in the late 80s would have even begun to seriously consider an All Drug Olympics.

We’re at a point now where a bunch of demonstrably insane billionaires are really doing this. What the hell is happening?

I can’t believe that this is even real! We have to be living in a simulation. There’s no way that the SNL skit “All Drug Olympics” is becoming real life. What the actual shit, man?

SNL All Drug Olympics