Hey! Spay and neuter your pets!

The stone calls out to you.

I try to be as ethical a consumer I can be, which is not especially ethical when you’re poor. It would be nice to have the money to buy clothing made in a country less likely to be using slave labor, but it’s usually more expensive and I can’t come up with over $100 to buy shoes when the toe on my shoe breaks or the heel comes off.

With chocolate, I just have to not buy it and the only way my life is affected is the disappointment of not eating chocolate.

How dare you mock a widow in mourning!

Also, I don’t think it’s a ratio issue. It’s about making choices. Giving up chocolate is not all that hard to do. Being able to find affordable shoes that fit which were not made in Asian sweatshops is a lot harder.

Good for you. They’re disgusting.

Being from Southern Indiana, walking into a gas station- like the one in Gnaw Bone (real Indiana place name!) that is famous for this- and seeing a bunch of old guys picking away on mandolins and banjos is always a delight to see.

Sorry. No. I live outside of an Indiana town with a population of less than 60,000 and not a big tourist draw. Almost no one uses their turn signals here either in town or on the rural roads. The only difference is they break harder before they turn on the rural roads.

No one in this town uses their fucking turn signals and it’s infuriating. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve almost hit someone who suddenly just breaks and turns in front of me.

In the sense that a forum I am on has had a huge amount of fun doing very silly things with Godzilla, yes.

https://forums.mst3k.com/t/dall-e-fun-with-an-ai/24697/8237

It’s best to start at the bottom. We didn’t start out with Godzilla when the thread began and it also began in 2022.

8220 posts, the majority Godzilla-related. I haven’t done too many lately, but here’s a few recent ones:

Unfortunately, according to the John Oliver segment on chocolate, it is almost impossible to guarantee that the chocolate you buy does not use slave labor in the process. Even the most ethical of companies get lied to.

I have manboobs from when I was fat. I almost want to take a self-portrait and see what Instagram thinks.

Dracula over there being like, “I wish I had a friend.”

There’s also the high radiation. After the sun, it has the highest radiation of any body in the solar system.

So many hour-old troll accounts this morning…

The planet will be here for a long, long, long time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the Earth plus Plastic. The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth; the Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place: it wanted plastic for itself, didn’t know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question: “Why are we here?” Plastic, assholes!

– George Carlin

Yeah, you’re right. What did non-violent resistance ever achieve other than liberate India, give people of color in the U.S. civil rights, free the Baltic states from the Soviet Union, end one-party rule in Czechoslovakia, topple the former Ukrainian regime and other things I could probably come up with if you gave me time?

What are you even talking about? Are you under the impression that the only way to take action is through losing your mind and raging?

Controlling your rage allows you to act rationally.

(RIP Teri Garr 😔)