My cat has a grooming routine that he starts when I go to bed. So my body’s signal for sleeping is when everything goes quiet except the subtle sounds of *lick lick lick*.

I’ve read somewhere that Argentina has a thriving community of German speakers for some reason.

The billionaire equivalent of a 14-year-old shouting “I’m running away!” at their parents. He’ll be back, and until then, he won’t be missed.

I recently had one that was like “Due to recent events, we feel it necessary to remind everyone about the regulations in the Code of Conduct about accepting gifts from clients. Please read the CoC if you have not done so and confirm you have read it via this link. Signed HR”. The link was fake, and the sender address was, too. It was a good fake though, because we actually do have a CoC and have to read/confirm about once a year. So I’m pretty sure it was a test to select people for training.

There are two stages in the world cups: the group and the elimination stage. In the group stage, the teams are divided up into smaller groups of four teams, and they all play each other in a round robin format. The two best teams from each group then advance to the elimination stage, where two teams play each other in multiple rounds with the winner advancing to the next round.

Christian mosher: *hits incense burner / spills ritual wine*

It’s already cringe when the youth pastor shows up with his acoustic guitar, and there’s really no need to also bring electricity into this.

Ferrari execs, probably: “No, we have to make clear that we’re modern™ and there’s more to our cars than toxic masculinity!!!”

… which might even be a good selling point for a lot of people, except for the kind of people who buy a Ferrari.

The sports car manufacturer’s cycle of business:

1. Lose revenue due to EV competition.
2. Design EV that looks like a cotton candy/kid’s toys version of your other cars.
3. EV sells poorly.
4. Scrap EV plans and return to non-EV lineup.
5. Go back to 1.

As much as I love Larian and BG3, you’d have to have a really narrow definition of “major” if Larian isn’t a major studio since at least DOS2.

You have to zoom in to fully appreciate it. Crazy level of detail!

The comic definitely made it more confusing by choosing the main (non-intersecting) road of a T junction to illustrate this. In most countries, if this road splits into two lanes, the left-turning lane would split off, and the right-turning lane would go straight.

Edit: Apparently, this style of junction is more common in the US. In Europe, I’ve only seen this kind of junction on highways, but that would be without traffic lights and with a much longer turning lane.

This is just translated to today’s standard English. Future English obviously will become a tonal language, where all expression is based on different intonations of the word “skibidi”.

I’m starting to think the chicken comparison doesn’t do justice to the emptiness of Trump’s threats. If he ever had to fight a chicken, the chicken would win.

Kudos to granny for being so positive about it and acknowledging that the cops have to follow up on the calls they receive, but if some anonymous tipster can bring down a SWAT team on some grandma’s house without any kind of check being triggered, that might indicate that there are some problems about how these issues are being handled. Other people may get out of this with much worse than a funny story to tell when two dozen cops decide to visit their house at night.

That’s real good value for a piano.

Brexit was so bad, Farage had to change the name of his moronic fucking party.

People should be more appreciative of all the things I’ve almost done for them and totally would’ve done if they hadn’t been so unappreciative.

According to this source (German), the average gas consumption of privately-owned cars in Germany in 2023 was 7.8 liter per 100 km. So this 30 year old car, which is not all that fuel-efficient by modern standards, is still more efficient than what people drive today.