It’s going to get harder to tell the tests from the real thing, at this rate.

I’m sure 9/11 style attacks, especially at that time, would have prompted such a message. Unfortunately, in most areas mobile signal was effectively cut off by overwhelming volume at the time. I doubt it would have worked, had the technology existed.

Yeah, but if I want to be fair about it I have to stick around all the way through the 80s and 90s and stop LITERALLY EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT from doing the same to the Middle East. And I’d probably have to also go back further and stop European hegemony from doing the same to Africa over the previous century or two.

You’re not wrong. I was just trying to bring attention to the vast gulf that is profit + labor + other overhead.  It really shouldn’t, at a properly run business, come out to a large multiple of the price of the physical ingredients.  Especially for a minimally processed dish like cereal (or avocado toast).

Fun fact:  that’ll still cost you $7, at least around here.  Sure, you’ll get 3 or 4 bowls out of it instead of 1, and have milk left over, but still.

Unfortunately the present mess isn’t Trump’s fault (I know, cliche).  You’d have to go back to the 1960s and stop the Nixon political machine that corrupted the Republican party so irrevocably.  Probably have to cap the motherfucker, as ruthless as we now know he and his cronies were.  Probably have to off several of…

We’ve seen how sensitive the guy is about his hands, and the lengths he’ll go to hurt people who talk about them. She must be really confident or really stupid to talk shit about the genitals of someone who can and likely will exact such terrible revenge and even more likley get away with it. Depending on the guy to…

Good for you.  I’m not saying you can’t do better.  Here in PA you can find Mennonite-run buffets and farmer’s market cafes where you still spend $10 but you get a better experience.  You’re just not walking out of a diner without spending $10, whether you order a short stack and water, 2 eggs and coffee, or an…

I dunno about Australia but two eggs, two slices of bacon, and two pieces of toast with coffee is getting damned near $10 here in America, and that’s out here in the sticks with a relatively low cost of living. And you’re lucky if they’ll refill the coffee without dinging you another $2 every time. A coffee shop in a…

Call it the Perfect Storm. Presumably he didn’t eat the place empty only one time, and he’s an athlete on an extreme diet. Plus the margin on something as expensive as sushi in an all-you-can-eat setting must be rough to begin with, even compared to similar deals with other cuisines.

Don’t they all? Not the ones in the pictoral, I mean all cats, everywhere, all the time?

Dressing your cat up like Kirby is not going to make it stop being fussy about what it will eat, you know...

That’s very poetic, and I’ll give it a shot.

This is true. The scale of our own lives is, unfortunately, still smaller than the pace of true institutional change (not the surface or appearance thereof). My own grandparents were alive at a time when women were beaten and shamed and institutionalized against their will for daring to suggest that they be allowed to…

I’m all about how Family Dollar should change their name because they’re barely a discount store for most stuff... but the fact that they have generic cold, stomach, pain, and eye OTC meds for literally half what any grocery store and a quarter of what any drug store charges kind of redeems them.  Gives them a reason…

Halfway between a 2-rotor helicopter and a hovercraft. Those last few frames are likely why it didn’t get adopted, BTW. Note the vast dust cloud being kicked up.

They’re extremely fast, naturally broad at the bow without sacrificing speed or maneuverability, and so they’re quick to load and unload. They can prevent any loaded vehicles or troops from being bogged down in a normal amphibious landing (where you lose a certain, if small percentage of vehicles & equipment simply to…

Oh, how I wish that were true. Unfortunately, this is coldly calculated, and part of perhaps the biggest open-secret consipiracy in the history of the United States.

I don’t care if it’s traditional. A lot of ancient food traditions come from places where there was NOTHING BETTER TO EAT at the time. While the Japanese have elevated seafood to an art form, look at how much they LOVE their beef and potatoes (albeit prepared differently than in the West, but still), now that they…

Republicans, not conservatives. There have to be precious few of the latter in the GOP at this point. I don’t know what to call them other than criminally reprehensible at this point, ‘cause they sure aren’t conservative.