I’m from Europe (Hungary) and I watched the first 20 minutes of the debate (with the intent of finishing the whole thing in one go) before turning it off while basically being on the brink of crying. The US presidents basically have as much say in my life as my own government (if not more) and even though I can’t vote for them, if I had to I’d be lost. Because it’s not that one is old and the other is crazy it’s a freaking Venn diagram of crazy RFK jr., demented Biden and then of course crazy and demented Trump. Seeing the debate and how these people basically can’t put two sentences after each other without breaking up is terrifying. And one of them will be voted into the most important office on the planet.

I mean it’s shit over here. We can choose between a guy who already stole half of our country, someone whose messy divorce somehow made him the most important member of the opposition and this other guy who stole the other half of the country before the current dude did. (And that’s just the tip of the iceberg). But maaan are we a lot better off than the world’s greatest country where two unsupervised parties get to point at the people you can vote into this ridiculously powerful position. And then they pick these guys.

We’re all going to die and I can’t even vote for whoever gets us killed, which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.

Don’t get fooled, that’s called stockholm syndrome.

I can’t agree. For one cars as basically all things carry an artistic value and besides that one of applied arts. They can in fact look pretty nice. Not agreeing with the things cars stand for or the damage they cause is one thing (and one that I actually support) but saying all cars are ugly seems a bit of an exaggeration.

I think it’s a paraphrase of a culturally significant webcomic inserted into a more modern context without it’s original meaning being altered.

This guy sees the most terrifying description of a toxin killing someone and goes “Yep, that’s a fun mushroom facto”

One day I realized I developed a skill for correctly inserting the USB on first try and I’m in an existential crisis ever since.

Douglas Adams <3

May I ask what does it do?

This feels like cosmic horror for some reason.

half of these don’t even look like sedans anymore, back in my day hurr durr

Not being allergic to finely graded rocks that have been bathing in radiation for billions of years seems more unlikely.

I was thinking green, but than I realized that’s biology for sure

1. Ethnicity totally can be part of an identity, but that doesn’t mean you have to hate anyone.
2. Don’t misunderstand “closing off borders”. Making the people stay is not okay. Not letting the people that left back is also not okay. Not letting in a different ethnicity? Arguably racist, but I wouldn’t count not letting them into your country as oppression. I’m a christian, so I can’t visit Mecca, yet I don’t feel oppressed.
3. That’s why I said “long established” and that’s why I pointed out that those aren’t many. I don’t think the violence you’d have to use to establish an ethnostate is in any way acceptable. If the ethnostate already stands though, you may use certain tools to preserve it, which are not many and are usually “not enough”.

My take wasn’t that ethnostates are good, but that they are not inherently bad either, it’s just the tools usually used to establish and preserve them that we must condemn.

Nuh-uh. Organic/long established ethnostates may be frowned upon, but if they close off their borders to preserve their identity, that’s their right, since I belive in the self-determination of peoples.

It is arguable though, whether these even exist right now, or are there only nation-states and some wannabe ethnostates.

Trying to violently establish an ethnostate is of course something I cannot agree with.

I may just have became desensitized to these things over the years, but if I could choose between having my eyes plucked out or dying I’d certainly choose the former, and that’s not even with my eyes being capable of regenerating.

Also the boogie-woogie they do is very grotesque but it’s not particularly scary for me either.

So bigfin squids are a rabbithole I’m diving into when I get home…

Guys am I the one not getting it or being insensitive toward the snails or is this just the classical “mildly alters behavior of intermediate host in order to spread to host more easily” again?

Picture an image with an explanation of said image written on it. That’s the anti-meme.

It becomes an anti-meme, by “misunderstanding” the fundamental nature of memes. Like explaining what is happening on the image, instead of reframing it with new text.

Now picture any random image, with any random text. That’s the placebo.

A placebo-meme is something that doesn’t have any intent of being funny, in fact it has no way of becoming funny (other then trough irony). So yes, those 2017 memes are not placebos, because an inside-joke was already in place, making them “funny” for the intended audiance.

With the current state of memes it became hard to actually construct a placebo, since anything not even remotely funny, something containing absolutely no trace of humor could still be picked up as a “senseless joke”.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Yes, but this is by definition a meme. A placebo meme would be something that looks like a meme but has no joke in it. Anything circa 2017 should do.