i hate how this does a really good job showing how awkward it is being fully conscious that your friends don’t actively include you in their activities LOL

I don't say this lightly but Steam is quite literally the only company I am okay with having this monopoly. There are so many ways they could use steam to generate more money. I see every opportunity for them to exploit their userbase and they choose not to. They have

Years of personal growth can be unraveled in 2 days at your parents house

Conservatives suddenly being anti-gun so they can side with a tyrannical government should confirm they don’t actually stand for anything. They’re just contrarians who side with whatever is the most evil

>1.8.9 losing more support by the day oh you love to see it

I love that actually. American cities are filled with closed observation decks. Open em back up!

If a Democrat won the Texas senate race, the LAST thing I’d want them to do is vacant it 2 years later

Random thought: People tend to underestimate how much human beings need 'reference', not only for relationship and marriage, but also for life in general. They need to see what they need to do.

America has more in common with Mexico than Europe. The European mind cannot grasp the Chevy Tahoe. Juan from Oaxaca can though.

Believers in the metric system genuinely think 568ml, an absurdly specific amount in their own terms, was stumbled upon by accident. Trial and error over centuries of hard boozing led us to the pint.

ADHD people screenshotting and bookmarking everything because they're afraid of losing ideas, only to never look at them again because the archive is now its own overwhelming problem.

What’s the US’s “fourth” city. Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing are pretty clearly the top 3 but the 4th is more ambiguous. I feel like the main contenders are probably Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Traverse City, Flint, or maybe NYC

Idea: a bar called The Situation Room. Like a sports bar but for politics. Cable news and live feeds on the screens instead of football. Atlases and copies of Jane’s Defence Weekly on every table. Multiple sets of Risk and Diplomacy behind the bar.

1.9 was crazy because for 10 years+ people have only been playing on 1.8 because they were little babies who refused to adapt

this. respect is not earned. it is lost.

"We can't take care of sick people or kids because we'd rather use the money on war" is a hell of a midterms pitch

This is just depression masquerading as radicalism.

Tonight is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. If he were to make the same journey from Boston to Lexington today, he could stop at 7 Dunkin locations. (via Reddit)