br3d

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[–] br3d 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile...

[–] br3d 6 points 5 months ago

The thing is, they're now just using platforms owned by Meta and Microsoft, both arguably awful corporations in their own way. Choosing Zuckerberg over Musk is out of the frying pan and into the fire in my opinion. They really should go to Mastodon, I guess?

[–] br3d 62 points 5 months ago

At this stage it's a trope that people imitate, perhaps without really thinking about it. Originally it was almost certainly an ironic joke about the value of the medals, playing on the old-fashioned bite tests that would be used for for items of dubious worth

[–] br3d 11 points 5 months ago

Points at bees "Why can't you be more like your cousin?"

[–] br3d 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No, Northern Ireland is part of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". So it's in the UK but not GB, which I think is what spurred OP's question

[–] br3d 4 points 5 months ago

If they're like the originals, let's hope nobody ever needs to control them with the slightest bit of moisture on their hands.

[–] br3d 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most motorists are speeding at any given moment. Interesting how the same rules don't apply there, isn't it?

[–] br3d 1 points 5 months ago

I know. But I was satirising GPT's bland writing style, not providing facts

[–] br3d 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"Shits are frequently classified into three basic types..." and then gives 5 paragraphs of bland guff

[–] br3d 7 points 6 months ago

It suits oil companies to pretend allowing them to drill is apolitical. In reality very few things are apolitical, and oil extraction certainly isn't

[–] br3d 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I totally understand why you say this. But at the same time:

  1. Be a politician

  2. Do the right thing and invest billions in an amazing public transport system knowing it won't be used properly until much later

  3. Lose your job for wasting billions on a system nobody uses. Ensure that every other politician in the world cannot henceforth invest in public transport because "Look what happened when that other guy tried it".

  4. There is no Step 4

[–] br3d 32 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I suspect the serious answer is that we produce mucus and sneezing as a natural response to microbes, and that's the environment within which microbes have evolved to take advantage of the mucus and sneezing

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