I like the preceding lines

Nails were expensive and difficult to obtain in the American colonies, so that abandoned houses were sometimes deliberately burned down to allow recovery of used nails from the ashes. This became such a problem in Virginia that a law was created to stop people from burning their houses when they moved.

That coin is clever because some people would rather keep the coin and the coin probably costs less to make than the Big Mac.

Lemmy: when you’re here, you’re family

Joke’s on him: you are what you eat

What if the kid needs it?

I love that subtle cue about segregationism in the background

How did you break into my house to take this photo?

So it’s really just a coincidence that a bit is an eighth of a byte and also an eighth of a dollar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_(money)

It does have to do with different drugs in some cases. Users in a k-hole (high on ketamine) tend to lean back.

For decades to come, kids will look at charts and ask: what’s that gap from? And we’ll tell them, “That’s the Trump administration”

Socky, I wish you were real

You made me realize that referring to uniforms as “matching outfits” is a great way to mock this type of guy.

Lately every two years. I also have a Pixel. When a new Pixel comes out Google offers a good trade in deal where you get a $100 of store credit on top of what AFAICT is a good trade in value. Get on the Google Store mailing list to be alerted of it. The resale value on Android phones seems to drop off really sharply after 2 years. So when I calculate the long term annual cost of owning a phone I think it comes out pretty good.

I’m not shooting for the absolute cheapest. Phones are so integral to our lives, I don’t think it’s rational to cheap out on any part of the phone that matters. IMO what doesn’t matter is the difference between the Pixel a-series and a flagship phone. Battery life definitely matters so having a pretty new battery is worth some of the premium of upgrading so often.

Warning, the store credit applies to your next purchase. But I’m pretty loyal to Google and Pixels.

Have there been any subsequent technological advances in the field of child unfucking that have made this article obsolete?

That’s the funny thing about Venezuela. The U.S. criticized Chavez’s election victories. So Chavez put in some of the best election infrastructure in the world. And because of that, it was abundantly clear that Maduro rigged his election.

In political science, we determine the opinion of a populace using something called elections, and well, you can see how that went…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_election

That Bruen case was absolute nonsense. They argued that if no regulations on guns existed in a certain arbitrary time period, that it is unconstitutional to ever have a gun regulation. And then they got the history totally wrong. There were plenty examples of regulations on stuff like open carry. So they got the facts totally wrong!

Middle-aged mutant ninja turtles!