There are several whole ecosystems dedicated to it.

That is no tortoiseshell Persian! Mongo is appalled.

Yep. My foolishness is what made youth worthwhile. With even a small amount more prudence I would have had a lot less fun.

Freedos and TempleOS

That’s part (the lesser part, but still important) of why I hate when news orgs use an angry dude on twitter as their example of someone who is up in arms about something.

The Internet is not representative of the population. The people posting are self selected. It’s the same reason if you go looking for coffee advice you’ll find a thousand posts with advice about roasting your own beans while most people are drinking Starbucks, Dunkin, Folgers, and Maxwell House.

The great majority of people do not give a shit what the Internet is doing. A lot of people look but only a teeny tiny slice are posting about it.

Brave browser on iOS will do it. Orion probably will as well.

Newpipe has been pretty great for me on Android.

That’s what happens when you’re owned by the capital arm of a car company and listed as a turnaround investment. Servco is going to do what it can to squeeze every last drop even though they were a pretty good steward and partner for decades. They are also forcing high minimum buys for stores, leaving a bunch of Mom and Pop shops in the cold and trying to get you to buy direct because there’s more margin if you buy from fender directly instead of guitar center.

They also rebranded Studio One to try to create the whole ass fender ecosystem, launched a big ass flagship store in Japan, and are bringing Pac-Man and Godzilla to the electric guitar world (who was asking for that exactly?).

It’s the PE playbook without the PE name. Eventually they’ll sell the goodwill fender built, saddle it with piles of debt, bankruptcy, and someone else will pick it up. I think fender is too valuable a name to let rot but I would have said the same thing about RCA so what the hell do I know?

Yep. Like the fact that he’s a champion piss drinker, more holistically healthy than LeBron, and the greatest Soviet leader of all time.

I have no idea whether it’s intentional but the second panel made me think it might be a Lies of Locke Lamora reference.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

-LBJ

And it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about different races, different sexualities, attached vs detached earlobes, whatever. Point to a group and tell everyone “They’re the problem” and you’re going to have an automatic following.

Yep. Land where I grew up was notoriously cheap if you didn’t get the mineral rights. You could be poor as fuck and have a tar paper shack on 10 acres and have zero time to produce anything useful on the land. Horses aren’t expensive to buy. You can get used tack and hay and oats were inexpensive where I grew up. Maybe a hundred bucks a month to own a horse (this would have been over 30 years ago, definitely more expensive today)? This was not for racing, heavy work, or horse girl stuff, but you could take care of one for not much if your hobby was riding or if you just liked having a horse around. Or you have zero land and help your neighbor with chores and your horse lives next door.

I do pretty well for myself but I’ve got an arrangement like that right now. I go help out on my buddy’s small ranch every year during the summer. I help enough that there’s a horse out there that’s mine, on paper at least. He gets the same treatment as the rest of the horses and I own all the gear. Costs me some time, but in all honesty it’s time I want to be outdoors anyway.

The entire c suite and board has to show up when the verdict is read. If it’s guilty they’re immediately shot. Any who flee and don’t show up, once they’re picked up, get dropped off the coast of that island where the natives kill outsiders. All wealth distributed amongst workers and contractors.

I prefer meat missile or love truncheon.

That’s because you guys worship Ra, but are also satanists, but started the Nazis.

The Catholic Chick Tract is my third favorite one after D&D and the one blaming the Nazis on Catholics.

I just feed my vehicles trees and children and black smoke comes out the back. Runs great.

No, no, this is the communism Republicans warned us about!!1!ONE!

I remember in the 80s and early 90s it was very popular for preachers (especially youth ministers) to have a conversion story. Like they were out doing drugs or eating babies and Jesus came to them to call them.

Youth ministers were generally more hilarious. I wish I had a nickel for every time one of them talked about how they wrestled every day with homosexual thoughts and used to give handjobs to truckers in truck stop bathrooms or whatever (ok, that’s hyperbolic but I think it’s funny). “Everyone” struggles with those kinds of thoughts we just have to resist Satan.

Motherfucker what? Am I so righteous that god said I don’t need to be tempted or am I so evil that it wouldn’t matter, because I’ve never looked at a dude and thought “Yep, gonna split him in half”.

Yep, same. Or “not this Thursday but the next”.

Horses!