1. No.

2. No.

3. No.

Maybe it’s less about the need to be the smartest person in the room and more about peddling dangerous disinformation?

This is literally how the Republican party in the USA functions, by purposefully being so brain-dead that we spend all our time explaining why they’re wrong and they just happily keep doing stupid fucking shit and expect us to protect them from themselves all the while.

It’s not funny or clever, it’s literally the same attitude behind conservatives trying to upset liberals. They would happily eat a pile of shit if they knew a liberal had to smell their breath. It’s fucking insipid and stupid and in no way is funny or cute or what the fuck ever. There’s zero ideology behind it except trying to upset other people, because they’ve got nothing the fuck else in their lives.

I don’t care if it’s a joke, they’re scum. It’s a “joke” in the same way “it was just a joke bro” comes from Nazis.

Take your upvote and get out.

During the period Saddam was in hiding, a friend of mine was trying to write a comic book called Saddamatron: Weapon of Mass Destruction.

It was about the US government capturing Saddam and turning him into a giant mechanize pro-US Super Soldier.

The finale was supposed to be a Kaiju-style battle between Saddamatron and Polpot-bot.

So sad it never came to fruition.

Because they hate their customers and want the mouse to become junk you have to replace when the mouse goes dead. It’s a finesse in planned obsolescence, same as the first time.

It’s purposeful. It’s to force you to buy a new one.

A mouse with a normal charging cable placement can still be used by being plugged in when the battery goes dead.

This mouse, with the charging port on the bottom, becomes unusable once its battery goes dead.

No, it’s because Apple hates it’s customers and is happy to bilk them.

That said, they do make some very nice things, but participate in so much anti-consumer nonsense (not that that’s any different from any other major corporation).

I am skeleton jelly?

The Joke Is Sex.

True, because they can still access it, but it’s garbled and/or confusing. Interesting idea.

so they just get frustrated with it and just lean more on the written stuff

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink it. In my experience, most average people just don’t like reading.

Do one better: Get control of their internet network access and start straight DNS black-holing whole swaths of misinformation on the internet. Tell them you don’t know what’s wrong and to complain to the service provider.

You can do this easily with a Pi-Hole under the guise of it being an “ad blocker,” and slowly, over time, making more sites unresponsive.

Make a Pi-Hole group for your own devices that doesn’t have this blocking, so when they question you, you can show them your device and be like “it works for me.”

It’s kind of the modern equivalent of using parental controls to block FOX News.

For legal reasons, this is also a joke, because “now that’s what I call gaslighting.”

Isn’t this the beginning of Frankenhooker?

What do you think?

I think I prefer JPEG-XL

The amount of time, money, and effort these groups will put into fighting to make the law benefit their business model instead of just, I don’t know, innovating or not needing endless growth maybe, is so pathetic.

For the “creative” industry their executives are really unimaginative.

Overall an extremely underrated film in the modern era and people who get excited about “crossovers” should still love it for being one of the only (if not the only) times you ever see Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny on screen together. Blows multiverse nonsense out of the water with how big of a deal that was and continues to be.

Baby Herman is a damn star and here he’s reduced to “Roger Rabbit’s Pal?”

I’ve had this conversation repeatedly about the house I grew up in:

It’s not haunted, it’s just a rickety piece of shit.

I feel seen and heard.

aloud

That’s quite the sound

Teacher’s Assistant.

A spectrum from Elvira to Dolly Parton.