8% is still too high. No one should profit from people being imprisoned.

Ligma nuts.

Me? I’m a Ligma male.

And thinking leftists idolize him enough to build a statue of him. Right wingers not knowing the difference between liberals and leftists, again.

A third or so of the country believes the right wing propaganda machine that has been churning for decades.

For everyone else, we’re constantly offered a choice between a center-right neoliberal, or an outright fascist. We’re just voting for how fast the country falls.

Ah hell, missed it when I first read it. I blame sleep deprivation.

Ohm = measure of resistance in a circuit

Amp = total current flowing through a circuit

Volt = difference in charge between two points. Think of it like pressure.

Service industry workers getting harassed for their management’s shitty decisions, as usual.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a cop that put it there. At least in the U.S. Do Irish police have as much of a nazi problem?

Yep. The one time Jesus got violent in the Bible, it was against the money lenders.

And as we all know, company property has more rights than people.

We don’t have an overpopulation problem. We have with resources being hoarded by a small handful of billionaires.

If I read it correctly, the probe checks periodically, and if it loses contact, it uses the location of known stars to point its antenna back towards the Earth. If that doesn’t work, it’s gone.

I drove an '04 Dakota for years (last year of that body style before they started making them bigger). Loved that truck, perfect size for camping or hauling band equipment.

Sucks that the mid-sized trucks now are bigger that the full-sized trucks from back then.

Part of ADHD. You forget things, beneficial or not. I usually realize when I’m on the way to work, then do the math of turning around for it, and how late I’ll be if I do.

This. From my experience, the kind of people who are drawn to fascism, the thing they hate more than anything else is being laughed at. Make them into a joke, they’re likely to just rage-quit.

Designer probably got a dimension wrong on the drawing, and the pavers went “Alright, we’ll do it exactly as you say. Teach you to proofread next time…”

Angle of the spine. He had a whole bit about how if you lean at all, you’re not manly, or something. Then he was selling shirts with the green line down the middle, because there’s always a grift with these chuds.

Terry Pratchett, author best known for the Discworld series of novels.