After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.

Macklemore is the real deal. Good to see art giving him a spine. Wish there were more.

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

The b-pillars in cars have gotten so thick, it’s made shoulder checks (especially driver’s side) almost useless. So do we make blind-spot detection systems mandatory or do we subsidise automotive carbon fibre so we can have thinner b-pillars?

Hegel was right when he said “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
Actually, no. We learn how to do it at a grander scale. Not better, just grander.

They’ve got over 700 military bases in over 80 countries, and followed a policy of propping dictators across the world for decades. They were always fascist. It didn’t matter cause it was always outside. Now it’s not. I sincerely wish they make it out.

8-ish years ago I got strangers to pay off $300k in “lunch debt” so kids who were being punished for owing money could do things like eat, go to prom, and, walk at their own graduation. In the 20 years I’ve engaged in social media, I have never received more hate for anything else I’ve said or done.

Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

Umm. That was a Nazi salute, wasn’t it? I mean, he did it terribly, but still.

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