This is America. We are taught as little as possible in school. I promise you less than 10% of teachers know how to make an omega symbol on a computer let alone know how to teach that to a kid who has only interacted with an iPhone.

Very bold of you to assume your average Lemming is level one, most of us are rocking a peasant stat block if we’re lucky

And also sets up your beer money for the rest of the semester right there on day one.

I, for one, welcome the Republican scrutiny on voter fraud so that we can finally find and address the cases of Republican voter fraud.

I mean, yeah it might have been, not because that makes it okay but because of a lack of attention on the subject. Then again he also might have gotten sued after the fact like Trump with his campaign trail music he keeps using without permission.

However, Elon did ask first, and was met with the response of “no, we absolutely do not want our product associated with you or your business in any fashion.” So he then carried on to create a barely legally distinct derivative which easily calls to mind the iconic scene in question, and then name drop Blade Runner in the accompanying speech.

Imagine for a moment, you write Bill Gates and ask him if you can use his likeness for advertisement. He tells you no, absolutely not, go kick rocks. So instead you have your local AI whip you up a character - Bull Gotes, a thin, white haired, elderly, bespectacled Caucasian man who made a lot of money on his computers, which he calls Macrosoft. This might be permissible as parody, but I don’t think you’re going to win a court case if you use it in business advertising and Bill decides he has something to say about it.

Has Temu ever had their act together from the beginning?

I always got the impression it was the Wish.com version of Wish.com

He’s been talking up his good buddy Putin since his first election.

Because the state government is full of christofascists and the federal government is scared shitless to step in on anything even tangentially related to someone’s religion. Someone might get offended, after all, so constitution be damned.

We absolutely could be “there” today but the lingering aura of the Powerglove is still so powerful that nobody has tried to make a better one. It got clowned on so hard the first time that the echoes of that are still rippling through our global subconscious 35 years later.

Also, Nintendo would probably try to sue you if you sold a glove-based controller, even 35 years later.

Diddy also blew up Kid Cudi’s car back in 2012 over some drama. That was a real ass assassination attempt.

You know, that’s a good point. I was approaching this from a “nobody would do this on purpose” perspective, and while I do still stand by my point, yours isn’t one I considered.

Where I grew up, every third too-stoned teenager would be like “maaaaan, this weed is laced with acid” and, no, it never was, and there’s like three different really good reasons why it never was. The “street weed can have fentanyl in it!! You could die!!” people have been, in my experience, overwhelmingly that same group.

But that said though you make a very compelling point for simple negligence being the source of those stories.

Nobody is putting fentanyl into your weed. It’s financially irresponsible to put a more expensive drug into a less expensive drug and kill your customers with it. And drug dealers care about their money beyond all else, they aren’t going to fuck up their own business. Not only do they want you to come back for more later, they’re definitely not out sourcing fentanyl and then selling it at weed prices, if you want the fenty weed, you damn well better pay up for it.

People getting fentanyl and not knowing it are buying cheap heroin. Because that’s what it is. It’s a heroin analogue that’s way stronger and can be sold cheaper because a nano speck of it is like 4 doses vs an 8-ball of good smack being one or two.

If you buy street weed and it has fentanyl in it and you didn’t ask for it specifically, someone is trying to kill you in particular.

Drug dogs have an average success rate of about 44%.

If they’re sniffing around a Latino that rate drops to 27%.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right

They can sort of smell drugs, sometimes, but more often than not they are simply a tool that manufactures probable cause.

In any other situation I would agree with you, but are you confident that deserting the Russian army fucks you over more than living in North Korea does? Because I’m not really sure.

The last two were pretty trash, honestly, I’ve been disappointed with both Switch Mario Party games so far. This one might just break that cycle but I have to admit I’m having a hard time justifying the purchase.

I do possess the ability to shut the fuck up, just usually not the willpower to follow through with it.

I completely, wholeheartedly believe that the GOP could fight kicking and screaming to get Trump elected and then immediately, unanimously 25 him before the inauguration is even complete. They have zero shame. This is not even slightly outside of their ballpark.

It’s an obvious con, but that didn’t stop them from doing the exact same thing with their supreme court justices. That was also an obvious con that would not have been allowed in any functioning government.

Oh sure, but the rumors of the Bale Eye existed before the implant did. That thing is only about as strong as a laspistol. Sure it’ll burn a hole through your trousers but it’s isn’t about to explode a charging Ork into bloody chunks. All that power comes from the gestalt field, presumably.

Quite poorly, considering the wiki states that the lowest denomination of Bells available in the game is 100 (one coin), and you can get a couple of those by scraping up random seashells and bugs to hock at the general store.

At best, inflation is horribly out of control in the Animal Crossing world and Nook might have a lot of Bells, but those are equivalent to wheelbarrows full of Zimbabwe dollars.