My so called blue state of California just voted against minimum wage increase, against rent control, against banning slavery, and for increasing the war on drugs. At least this time we narrowly voted to approve gay marriage (unlike last time where we banned it)

I hate the YouTube clickbait style thumbnails, I’m not watching the video out of principle

Random Nancy comic from 1963: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FPIAAOSwq5ZkIIrb/s-l1200.webp

Im not sure I see a real difference between them?

For anyone who didn’t read more than the title, this is talking about seeing things long after the drugs have worn off

The point of freeways is to go as fast as possible. There’s no houses or kids playing on them. Why would we try any kind of traffic calming (aka slowing) on them? That’s probably why you can’t find any

I’ve stopped reporting obvious scams / spam on instagram because something like 19 out of 20 reports get ignored or denied

The Onion is a satirical site, it’s a joke. There’s no article, the whole joke is the headline. It’s not a real news site.

A smoking jacket is a jacket you wear while smoking, so that the smell sticks to it, instead of the rest of your clothes. It was common back when smoking was cool and not something for losers

This only makes sense if you assume the only part of your brain is the conscious part. But it’s got much more to it than that

You can disable it pretty easily in the settings. I wish more apps let you opt out of ads so easily.

Do you want another abu ghraib? Because this is exactly how we get it.

Lemmy also has that bro. Some clients display it and some don’t, but when I click on your name I see that you have 510 total comment score and 0 total post score.

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