Definitely shores up the “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” argument.

The Teenage Engineering vinyl cutter goes for something like $150 for a little portable home machine that makes 5" discs.

Just say no to creators who use AI for anything, even to make their thumbnails.

Why wouldn’t an actual bank be the Iron Bank?

You may not like it, but this is what peak cleanliness looks like.

It was an anecdote from Biden, not a public conversation.

Putin doesn’t give a shit about religion beyond what Padre Kirill does for his public image and recruitment efforts.

He never puts himself in a position to publicly speak with anyone who would ever disagree with him, all those people are long dead or too afraid of open windows.

Beginning of Act 3, Scene 5 finds Romeo and Juliet in bed prior to dawn, after having spent the night together as man and wife.

I don’t remember seeing pirated stuff before Dreamcast / PS1, although to be fair, I was at a lot of PC conventions back then grabbing freeware disks and stuff, so I probably saw a lot of pirated stuff without knowing what I was looking at, just by virtue of being too young to be into the pirating / modding community.

None, because their corporations exist as separate legal entities that own their own assets, and their personal wealth would go to their next of kin.

The way to get the wealth out of the hands of the wealthy is to tax them, or to remove the legal system that would keep their wealth in their family when they die.

I blame a mysterious coworker named Pepe Silva for everything that goes wrong at my job.

That asshole.

No, but I did take the 4 or 5 Oreos I would eat in a sitting, crumble them up, and put them in a bowl of milk like cereal.

Can’t have a tank parade when all your tanks are currently planters for Ukrainian sunflowers.

I remember back in the days when Ebay didn’t have any selling restrictions, there was someone selling an Alfa class Soviet sub for something like 3.5 million.