It’s the Gen Z equivalent of codpieces or sporrans.

This would be the Kentucky equivalent of that photo of miniskirted students in 1960s Iran

Technically, “Palestine” is the geographical name of the region, and has nothing to do with ethnicity or religion, whereas “Israel” was the historical Jewish nation and is the specific Jewish state in the area. If things were named sensibly, everybody there would be considered a Palestinian, and “Israeli Arabs” would be understood as referring to Mizrahi Jews.

On graduation, you get a fursuit

TIL that the opposite of loneliness is having had sex

Thanks to the power of memes, lemons are canonically summonable

JFK’s head spontaneously exploded with no explanation. The government quickly found some local bum, framed him and then shot him before he could say anything, to manufacture the idea of an assassination, because the alternative—that anyone’s head could spontaneously explode at any time for no reason—would cause mass panic and a collapse of the economy.

It’s one of life’s great mysteries

Cook presided over the transition from Intel to Apple Silicon, giving Apple products a performance-per-watt advantage neither Intel/AMD nor other ARM vendors have yet caught up with. Surely that counts for something.

Elon helped him hack the voting machines by his own admission.

More like by his own narcissistic self-mythologisation. Elon Musk the visionary technogenius who defeats the Woke Mind Virus with his 1337 hax0r skillz and then has time to reinvent subways only with apartheid is just the act he puts on to manipulate markets and be idolised by legions of guys self-defined by their lack of girlfriends. In reality, he uses Windows like any other C-suite executive and pays people to level up his characters in games. If he “hacked” the voting machines, it would have been with his checkbook.

When you realise, too late, that the book you’ve been reading is Mein Kampf

They invented PostScript, PDF and Type 1 fonts (the first popular vector font format before TrueType/OpenType) and created Photoshop, which pushed the boundaries of image editing. Then, sometime in the last couple of decades, they decided that enshittification is where it’s at.

Given that the USSR built its first toilet paper factory in the 1970s, I suspect they’d endure the lack of supply.

Why did they draw The Beatles as anime girls?

If he were to turn around and begin the long, hard process of undoing whatever he can of the harm he has done and trying to be a force for good, then he’d have a chance of redeeming himself. Though I suspect he’s too inherently narcissistic for that to be a possibility.

Hope his cats find a good home

Under fascism, if you’re not from a scapegoat minority, you still get to practice your religion, and if you know your place and stay out of things that aren’t your business (such as political questions, lofty ideas about human rights, or why a new family suddenly moved into the Rosenzweigs’ house across the street), you get to keep what you have, and if you’re lucky, you might even get some slaves.

Though, to be fair, changing him from a wannabe gangsta to a YouTube manosphere influencer was an inspired touch.

Not sure about this new Ali G reboot, to be honest.

If you accept that society is pyramid-shaped, it’s easy to accept ideas such as a “bottom 80%” (the hideous peasants who do all the jobs you wouldn’t touch) and to imagine oneself as in the “top 20%” if you have a comfortable home, don’t go hungry and have enough to treat yourself to discretionary luxuries like a Netflix subscription. Yes, the private-jet class may be far above you, but your little perch on the side of the pyramid keeps you out of most of the muck.