The number of tankies in this thread is just epic

Navy SEAL is an acronym. Doesn’t count.

Article 1, section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises […]

You do not need to be part of opec to sell oil. The US, UK, and Norway, just to name three, are not members.

https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/25.htm

It’s not a social construct, it’s a legal concept

… and other fairy tales

I don’t care what your fucking fairy tale book says

That would be my reaction too. Who says “unsubscribe to” instead of “unsubscribe from”?

I have a sex joke, but I don’t get it

Purple? Did you misspell lavender?

I can’t stress how important this is: babysitting does not, in fact, involve sitting on baby.

For real. Once I retire in a decade or so, I’ll try to live off social security for as log as possible, but once I need to dip into my savings, I’m just tapping my kid’s inheritance. At that point, death is the only financially rational option.

The story I heard, and I don’t know if this is true or not, is that 100 isn’t just a human’s blood temperature, but specifically Mrs. Fahrenheit’s blood temperature.

For the hard of reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

The fact that energy stays energy doesn’t mean it’s useable energy. See: the heat death of the universe

Yeah, that’s not a danish, that’s an entire cake. It’s 14 ounces.

Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.

Pretty sure Hilton will just sell you one

I’ve left it at the default

“Aside from people who [benefit from self-checkout], it’s hard to see who benefits from self-checkout.