In my first field IT job, I had to use a dock that had a parallel printer port that we used to configure and troubleshoot the ancient line printers the company was still using. Those docks barely lasted a year and they would just straight up quit working no matter what computer you plugged them into.

White House to prison pipeline.

I never got why they don’t attach these flares to some boilers to generate extra electricity or heat homes in the winter. I mean I know that creates problems of their own and it would still do nothing about the CO2 pollution, but it makes a little more sense than simply burning it.

I remember those.

(CW: old chud meme; thinly veiled misogyny; liberals falsely labeled as leftists)

I like how the conservatives’ pictures are official portraits and glamour shots, while the liberals’ pictures are candid, Photoshopped or otherwise out of context.

I was gonna say, the only time I ever come across anything about Rosie O’Donnell anymore is via boomer memes. They’re literally the one and only demographic who still cares about her.

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Quiet local dive pubs became either overly loud clubs or sports bars

I partly blame those TouchTune jukeboxes (which themselves are a consequence of the Internet) for the decline of the bar atmosphere.

Before them, each bar had their own eclectic collection of songs, which either slapped, sucked or were somewhere in between, but they were all unique and reflected the atmosphere of the place they were in. Now every place has the same flashy RGB Internet connected screen kiosk that theoretically has hundreds of thousands of songs to pick from, but almost everybody in every bar picks the same pop, country or dad-rock slop.

Even the quiet bars that adopted those jukeboxes became loud clubs not long after.

You mean plutonium doesn’t look like a vial of cherry flavored cough syrup suspended in a larger vial of water?

In my town, before the Interstates were put in, the county/state transportation departments bought out and set aside strips of land in the 1950s and kept them empty for 20-30 years until construction started in the 1970s. Trees grew in during that time while the land around it got built up. It’s weird looking at maps and aerial photos from that time period and seeing empty space. They would have become cool little wooded areas if the highways were never built.

I’m assuming the same happened in New Orleans in the “before” picture: the highway was planned and the land was bought out well in advance, and trees grew in during that time.

More like olds.

Nuclear armageddon almost never seems to happen at night in movies and TV shows. It’s always during the daylight.

The only exception I can think of is Threads, where the missiles start flying when it’s like 3 in the morning in Washington DC, and even that happens off screen.

These aliens appeared before in S1E7 and they all look like old people. Maybe it’s just natural to the species, like they’re just born to look and dress like stereotypes of old humans?

“I don’t agree with everything the Republicans stand for.”

“NOT ENOUGH MAINSTREAM REPUBLICANS ARE CALLING FOR THE OUTRIGHT SLAUGHTER OF MINOROTIES FOR MY LIKING”

I had a coworker tell me, with a straight face, that corporations are socialist because they’re owned by a bunch of people who get a share of the profits.

Pay no attention to those obvious signs that the economy is failing, because the stock market has been recovering these past few days! Even though like a month ago we told you to pay no attention to the stock market because the falling numbers don’t mean anything!

hilarious text art about how she chugs wine

“Live, Laugh, Love” art, but for winos. My aunt’s kitchen walls are filled with this slop.