Asking the important question.

Haha, no just a quick little shitpost after seeing the sidebar on a dictionary site. Made me think of that town with the twenty syllable name in Wales.

Subscribed to all five meme groups too, huh? Figured I’d spread it around to see where it gained traction.

* real estate agent pries Crying Room door sign off wall beside walk-in closet filled with lobster tanks *

Almost as though lackluster fines as penalty aren’t effective at repairing the damage caused by corporate corruption, amirite? Better give them another slap on the wrist instead of breaking up their abusive corporate monopolies. /s We should look to Bell, and break up grocers working in collusion to artificially inflate prices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

Not so funny, not so ironic. It’s purposeful, they aren’t doing it accidentally.

large insurance settlement for death and dismemberment intensifies

How am I going to rip on them until they have aneurysms if I’m not on there too?

Anti-Civil Engineering for helping to ensure that the Texas power grid falls to ruin?

They might face a stern ball-kicking by the Liberal & NDP parties, but my bet is that fuckall will be done legally.

It’s a laudable philosophical stance, but if you’re eligible for conscription in whatever country you call home, you’d better have a fallback plan, a cache of supplies, and place to hide out before fleeing the country in times of war. Armies don’t fuck around with that shit, they’ll either jail or execute able-bodied people refusing military service. Best of luck to you.

“How many times have the Jays won the Pennant?”

Honestly, that’s my feeling too. The good news is that not every single person applying the munitions would need to know how to manufacture them, simply to deploy and arm them. The Russian’s use of anti-tank mines against Thrid Reich railway lines comes to mind - the conscripts carrying the mines, locating the rail lines, and planting them to destroy trains and railway infrastructure weren’t homebrewing them in a shed at home. They were supplied by the state and trained on how to use them, in a way that maybe similar to how modern army forces know how to use Stingers/MANPADS but not how to build them or the components.

They seem to be proposing the sort of normal military service that used to be fairly common, although exactly universal in peacetime. The sort of marksmaship that they’re describing exists even in countries with strict gun control like South Korea, Germany and Britain. It pays off in spades in cases where war comes home and civilians must be relied upon to defend against invasion.

Some of the European countries phased their mandatory conscription programs out as recently as the 90’s-00’s, and it’s maybe not the ones you might first assume who had them in the first place - the Danes, Swedes, Finns, the Swiss, etc. Others still have conscription in case of war, but that’s not so unusual at all, and may not mean front-line posts for many who’re unfit for the duty for one reason or the other.

Many roles in a nation’s military are far from the front, everything from administrative, intelligence analysis, supplies and warehousing, medical roles - there’s a pretty wide spread of tasks beyond holding a gun and firing it at your nation’s enemies.

“We’re going to make it impossible to use the entire volume of this product, because the tube that feed the pump-cap doesn’t even reach the bottom of the container. If you’re mad about it, select another ripoff product owned by the exact same parent company or maybe eat shit. We don’t even care that it’s useless.”

Aah, now that’s a different animal. People run their mouths off at bars all the time - who was it, what did they say, what’s their association to the party, did they just shoot their mouth off about it, or did they actually do it?

If it’s true, it was a massively stupid move, if not, maybe take McKenna’s sources with a grain of salt in the future. She’s pretty solid, but that’s an awfully bold claim to make based on jocular taproom banter.

Have you set foot in one in the last two decades? They did enshittify it already, not only could you not find anyone to answer any of your questions about the merchandise, you could barely find someone to staff the register without crossing the entire floor because HR was running the staff levels at 50% capacity or less of what was seen in the 90’s.

Anyone taking bets on how long it will take for it to get enshittified faster than Tim Hortons?