hey, c’mon mate. don’t be embarrassed if you’re packing junk in your trunk.

You own your brain…

i don’t know how to break this to you, but you are your brain.

if ceo assassinations were a tenth as common as school shootings, the usa would have the toughest gun control laws in the world.

read “the tightrope men” by desmond bagley. it’s a novel set in finland that uses exactly this premise.

but that’s the beaury of email! people don’t need to be on the same app to communicate with each other!

that arbitrary walled-off garden of whatsapp doesn’t hamper anyone here!

just don’t use whatsapp? problem solved!

#returntoemail

but he wouldn’t be able to puff the smoke back out. it’ll all pool around the base of his neck after every inhalation.

he may be the first person to be responsible for his own second-hand smoke!

as can almost everything in life.

watch the video on the rules for rulers by the youtube channel cgpgrey for one explanation.

this fairly informative response has downvotes, ironically.

downvoting something only because you disagree with its contents is a sign of immaturity. it screams, “i personally don’t like this viewpoint so i’ll do everything in my power to suppress it from everyone else.”.

the mature response would be to leave the voting buttons alone and provide instead a measured response of the reasons for your disagreement.

you do know how to use the oxford comma, i’ll grant you that.

is there an internal contest amongst the departments in microsoft to see who can farm the most user data?

source: “Chacha Chaudhury: Duplicate” (literally: Uncle Chaudhury: Duplicate. Chacha Chaudhury has been a famous comic character in india for 40-50 years or so).

context: some folks have just robbed a bank and are driving away. one of the bank’s officers runs after them screaming for them to stop. her usage of the word “booty” is a translation artefact; i haven’t read the original hindi version, but i’m guessing the line would have been closer to “stop them, they’ve looted the bank!”.

there are countries where people drive on the right side of the road, and then there are countries where people drive on the right side of the road.

india has right-hand drive vehicles. the steering wheel is provided at the right-front seat.

we drive on the left side of the road.

yeah, but it can do really cool things like “suggest a name for my project that does X”.

surely that game’s worth the candle, yes?

these sources cover the story pretty well:

NPR

The Lancet

the story to fixate upon there is how the cia located bin laden in the first place – by having agents pose as international aid workers dispensing the polio vaccine in pakistan.

this one act has led to a distrust in aid workers in that country and the flourishing of polio. countless innocent lives ruined, but i’m sure uncle sam considers those as adequate compensation against killing one man who had sequestered hinself away with his goats and his porn.

we should care less about how that one man was buried then and more about how the polio-ridden corpses of children are treated today.

burial and cremation, as practices, should be be dispensed with altogether.

i want my eventual corpse to be donated to a green burial.

it may be that you were being facetious, but numbers and formulae are usually the most potent weapons in the arsenal of people who want to bulldoze in their own agenda.

as a general rule, any post with figures should warrant greater scrutiny, not less; and definitely not none with a nudge to rank it higher. even if it is one in all frivolity as my comment above.