Yeah, I wish they'd made the second graph show percentage point difference instead of percentage growth.

profoundly stupid

Hey, that was my favourite movie when it came out. I was sure Yahoo Serious was going to be a huge star.

This shouldn't need saying obvs but https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-women-soldiers-breastfeed/

Major “if the shoe fits” moment there

Posts like this always make me wonder how many people are telling stories of deadpan jokes I made in their presence, that they didn’t realize were jokes.

Normally I wouldn't make fun, but he even typed the word Celsius in his reply. It's almost like some small part of his brain was trying to throw him a clue.

: goes to sign

: scrolls countries list

: no 'United Kingdom' option

: remembers

: sadface

Environmentalists in comic books are nearly always deranged villains, and the ones that aren't are still weak and naïve.

The only strong environmentalist hero in Western canon is Captain Planet, and he's got sus narc vibes.

For the benefit of the many non-Brits complaining about how unrealistic it is: the Leaving School Grounds Unsupervised form is (when I grew up at least) a huge social divider and Big Deal in a lot of British schools. There was a whole micro industry at mine where the ~70% of kids who were allowed out would provide delivery services for sweets and pop for the 30% who weren’t.

JKR didn’t just pull this whole thing out her ass, it was something that most British kids will have instantly related to. (She’s still an awful human mind)

The terrifying thing is that this is just a temporary technical misstep.

Musk's response to this won't be to pack that shit in, it'll be to order his goons to figure out how to make it more subtle.

I googled the author, he's a Tech Bro pretending to be a media critic. Shame on The Guardian for publishing this moronic clickbait guff.

I would say the guy clearly doesn't understand the most basic concepts of fiction, except I suspect he probably does but is ignoring them in order to push his agenda.