Tbh the "HUE-mann" thing in Star Trek feels spot on. Deliberate mispronounciation as a form of disrespect

Even in America, IKEA is considered kind of bourgeois if you are rural and can't afford to drive 2+ hours into a major city for furniture

I had a professor who used to poll every class what they though the income range of middle class was, he got everything from 30k to 500k. It is useful for the upper class to convince everyone that they’re middle class.

You have to understand that every American who thinks they are middle class are either actually relatively poor or rich. it's a very small category here now

AI creates Mandela Effect "facts" because it doesn't think, it has no intelligence. It has no idea if it's pushing fact, fiction, or nonsense. Only that there's a really good chance that this word should follow that one.

Idk whos paying you to be pretend to be fucking stupid, but I hope it's worth it

They decided mass piracy and plagarism is legal when rich people do it, so yeah. Now if a Silicon Valleys CEO's child rode a bike on the sidewalk, that'd be legal

I mean, Considering the Know-Nothings and Wide-Awakes were both pre-civil war socio-political stances... yeah.

Justice hasn't been the governor since January

My grandma always told me that their abusive stepfather would put his hand on the tv when he got home to see if it was still warm.

I've been online shooting the shit with people for 20+ years, and tbh it's not unusual to not have any deep internet friendships. In fact, I'd say it's more healthy not to imho. Anytime I tried being bffs with an internet handle it became toxic very quickly.

Reminder that the UK looks like that because it's been ecologically devastated with massive loss of habitat and animal/plant species, it was a temperate rainforest before humans showed up.