A politician from one of the modern countries that still imprisons people for lese-majesty wants to end social media anonymity? Sounds like a great idea!

A friend showed me once a video of someone building fireproof armor out of a pineapple.

In an alternate universe, Byzantium conquered half the world, and the other half is fending off greek fire using pineapple shields.

The story behind the image is actually quite funny:

https://www.truthorfiction.com/japan-santa-crucified-christmas-meme/

Also original, high quality pic: https://www.yoshioitagaki.com/home

I always forget when I’m muted and when I’m not :(

I have been using Duck for a few years now and I honestly prefer it to Google at this point. I’ll sometimes switch to Google if I don’t find anything on Duck, but that happens once every three or four months, if that.

While I wouldn’t go as far as to say that the entire internet is doomed and that every user is an AI, there is some truth to it. Even before the surge of AI content around 2020 with ChatGPT and the likes, the internet was already full of bots and troll farms were already a menace. This video is from 7 years ago, and the problem has only grown since then.

There are many uncertainties in today’s world, but I can always trust in Thomas the Tank Engine to do the right thing.

Terminator was almost correct. The real terminator will be Arnie walking around in a fursuit.

I’ll be back. UwU

I would fake being scared so as to not hurt their feelings :)

I mean, if I had Shad in front of me, I would also throw him into the river.

Electing Trump the first time was the equivalent of Brexit.

Electing him twice is the equivalent of setting your own home on fire, walking back inside while the house is still burning and taking a nap, hoping that the flames will only destroy your neighbour’s house.

Where can I get lizardmen friends?

Are the 5e apologists in the room with us?

No, but seriously, most people I know (rightfully) criticize 5e for a lot of things, from sloppy writing in general, to shitty adventure books, to nonsensical rulings and poor balance. I’ve never met someone willing to defend 5e so passionately.

I’ve always claimed that base 5e is basically unplayable past tier 2 because of how wild power scaling becomes, and how sloppy certain rules are (God forbid that your wizard doesn’t attempt to Shapeshift the Fighter’s Echo before you even reach tier 3). And frankly, base 5e is too boring to play for long, anyway. Homebrew is where it’s at.

I use Fossify Clock and I’m having the same problem.

I don’t know how hospitals work in the US (assuming that OP is a US citizen, because that’s what we do on the internet), but where I come from, determining the cause of an injury is very important to decide on an effective treatment. Bites in particular are very nasty and can lead to a lot of scary complications (including human bites!).

There’s no way in hell the nurse just said “yeah ok got it fam” and went along with her day like it wasn’t important.

And maybe I’m too jaded, but I read “we also got engaged” and my mind automatically added “and everyone clapped” at the end of the sentence lol

Props to this person for never washing their mouth off their friend’s blood. I’m sure they had the chance to do it, but chose to walk all over the hospital with their mouth covered in blood so that the nurse could see it, otherwise the joke wouldn’t have landed.

Robert Silverberg’s “The man in the maze” is a cool science-fiction book based on the Greek play Philoctetes. Iirc it’s a very short story (maybe about one or two hundred pages), I don’t remember the exact length but I recall reading it in one sitting. It is a very character-driver story where the “maze” itself is an allegory about mankind, isolation and disability, but it is very much enjoyable as a casual read as well.

The protagonist (“man in the maze”) is an astronaut who has been somehow cursed to always radiate its emotions in such a way that others, even his family, find repulsive, so he self-exiles to a remote and long-dead planet to live the rest of his life in isolation. But when an alien species makes hostile contact with humans, he is needed again, as his “curse” is the only way to properly communicate with them and maybe convince them that humans are sentient beings and thus their equals.

Is this a meme I’m too Italian to understand?

I’m Italian. School explains all there is to know about sex and stuff, so I never needed the “talk” with my parents. I also had a bigger brother that would tell me everything way before the time lol

About drugs, I think I already got everything from TV? I certainly didn’t need my parents explaining to me that drugs are bad.

EDIT: For those curious about how/when SexEd is taught in school in Italy: I had SexEd in my 5th year of elementary school (10yo), 3rd year of middle school (13 yo) and again in high school (I think it was the second year, so 15 yo, and then in my fourth year as well, when I was 17 yo). My parents were required to consent to the school teaching us SexEd only in elementary school; no consent form was required from middle school onwards, it was mandatory.

And I think that drugs were discussed in school as well. I think in middle and high school, around the same time as SexEd.

Hitchcock didn’t make Birdemic

No, but he sure wishes he did.