> They also don't have any sharp corners or break into sharp pieces,

This man has never been within 10 meters of a IRL pringle.

Costco sells bags of roasted pumpkin seeds that scratch a similar itch for me. Not quite as cheap as sunflower seeds, but about 10 bucks for a 2lb bag that lasts quite awhile.

Rain and wine can be delightful if you're in the right mood for it.

The only wrong place for pepperoni is unused, and put back in the fridge.

Thanks for doing your part to stand up against pizza gate-keeping!

Absofuckinglutely no pun intended.

I think a good general rule there is:

Is the cliche the setup for the joke, or is it the entire punchline?

The former can make for quality humor, but the latter is just being lazy.

My bad... I guess I figured people could digest 3 lines of text without it being pasted over meme template

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity in a timely manner. Though I was kinda hoping for an "OP delivers" moment 😂

I'm sorry, but "there's no point in trying to solve the main problem, because if we did, we'd just resort to trying to solve the lesser problems next" really isn't a good argument. It's the entire point of progress!

What's stopping mass stabbings and school bombings from occurring now? If they as effective or achievable as shooting people, presumably murderers would be using those options on par with shootings. If they are more difficult or less effective, then it seems like we should prefer the lesser evil, no?

Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock

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Using state funded media to get that message across every half an hour during traffic reports seems a fairly obvious way of doing so.

I will heartily agree there in principle, but if the public transport is not a time savings over driving--as is very commonly the case--it would be self defeating.

Honestly, you're overthinking it. Radio traffic updates are just a holdover/tradition from 10 years back and earlier when we didn't all have realtime traffic info in our pocket.

I live in the Chicago area and listen to public radio on my way to work, and the traffic update is just a list of the same half dozen freeways and stating there is a delay of either 20, 30, or 40 minutes between the same reference points. This takes 20 seconds tops, is useful to nobody, and they rattle through it with the same efficiency and flair of a DJ reading a spot for the local car wash. But they have probably been reading the same script at the same time for 40 years like station IDs and other familiar hooks.

Fuck car culture and all, but relax and take a breath... not everything is some weird insidious plot.

I'd love to warp back in time to when it first came out, and sink in dozens of hours on my first playthrough all over again.