If you look at any of the ancient statues they don't look black, whatever the recent propaganda tries to push. It doesn't make any sense to put everyone in those four racial boxes - an Ethiopian looks as distinct from a South African as a Spaniard and a Swede

So... Is this Aladeen news or Aladeen news?

Lots of astronomical objects have names, but somehow it's asteroids and maybe craters that really got the naming hype, there are hundreds of them named after scientists, poets, the discoverer's teacher, you name it. It's a nice custom.

Disclaimer: I might be slightly biased, as I proposed my wife with naming one of them (asteroid, I mean).

Wasn't that a phdcomics strip originally?

Just wait until you get to Dexter's lab with the omelette du fromage.

Wait, in the last thread it was a bank

But... Isn't that standard equipment in every household?

The guy with the scat fetish that disappeared the moment his wish started to come true

I know only one case where this shrinkflation thing was stopped - one beer company decided to sell 0.4l cans, because "that's what the customers want". It turned out pretty fast that wasn't what their customers wanted :)

I think I'll stick to 'fresh' or 'sourdough' as alternatives from now on

While that's true, we still have for example safe air travel, although I'm pretty sure companies would be happy to ship their passengers minced to maximize their profit.

Also, thorium reactors would be a great step forward, unfortunately its byproducts can't be used for nuclear weapons, so their development was pretty slowed down.

Not all, they were kicked out from Hungary - although that was less a victory of workers' rights rather than that of the taxi driver union.