Frankly, it does look exactly like every sword-wielding, walking skeleton I’ve seen IRL. No notes.

Ugly giant bags of mostly water.

Seize all electronic devices and scan for logged-in accounts, cookies, browsing history, etc.

Depending on the severity of the crime (if NSA gets involved, for instance) there are ways to defeat Tor, anyway. They have historically maintained backdoors (technical and human) into most telecom networks, and can always “ask” ISPs for a ton of information on a suspect.

If something was previously the right tool for the job, then, despite no apparent changes in the behavior of the user, is intentionally broken by the creator of the tool and is no longer suitable - that is absolutely, 100% worth complaining about.

IMHO.

“Hey. Don’t I pay your salary? … You’re a public servant; get me a glass of water.”

RIP George.

To hell with that, I’d download two.

Who are you delegating to “disallow” such a thing? Like a law?

I can’t speak for the official rules, but I swear I’ve heard “What is…” in times when that’s not the most appropriate response.

It sure feels like “in the form of a question” is more important than if the question itself makes grammatical sense.

Are reed and red taken?

Early contender for the 2026 Ig Nobel prize.

People who have been sprayed with dihydrogen monoxide have a 100% rate of dying.

Masculine manly Republican men stop thinking about gay sex challenge (impossible).

If humanity wants to live on another world, we will first have to terraform it to suit our biology.

Likewise, in order to spread, brain worms would need to find a suitable host to terraform the rest of the species they want to inhabit. They should encourage unhealthy behavior, sow distrust in science, and be in a position of authority.

Hypothesis: RFK Jr died years ago, and is being controlled like an undead meat puppet by brain worms looking to conquer earth.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-businesses-need-know

The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews. For example, in an online transaction, it would be illegal for a company to include a provision in its terms and conditions that prohibits or punishes negative reviews by customers.

We can start with the opposite: deflation.

If your money is worth less today than it will be tomorrow, you won’t spend it. Burying every extra penny in your back yard would be the optimal saving strategy. But if nobody spent money outside the absolute essentials, commerce would grind to a halt. No jobs, no entertainment, no standard of living.

So the central bank wants a little inflation. It encourages people to spend some, powering the economy. Too much is bad, though, so they target 2-3% annually. The number of levers and dials they have to make that happen is finite, so it doesn’t always fall in that range over a given short time period, but it’s pretty accurate in the long term.

By printing more/less money, or making borrowing easier/harder (the fed rate, in the US), they can influence the amount of cash floating around to try to keep things in that ideal range.

Whether a currency-based economy is the best way to distribute resources is a whole different discussion, but every modern society works essentially this way.

All the intricate rules of Calvinball.

BBD (best by date) is going to be 1 year, or some other legally specified number of days, from the date of manufacturing/canning. It can fall on the end of a month, but not intentionally. 28-Mar-2025 was a Friday.

I still vote for 3.

The 7 above is also missing some dots on the right, so there’s an entire vertical strip of erased ink. The numbers are up to 5 dots wide, but the existing 3 only has 4 dots on the bottom. It’s possible that a fifth is supposed to be there one spot higher, matching the missing number, but it just got clipped by the erased part.