Swear to dog this panel was the inspiration for the horses in Red Dead Redemption.

My condolences

Are you a harbinger of failure?

Monk, Psych, and Frasier because they’re mildly amusing and inoffensive. They’re basically comfort food TV shows that I put on while I do other things.

Archer because it’s smart and fucking hilarious.

And, sadly, most people are not otters.

This all started long before Citizens United. The “southern strategy” used in the 1950s was probably the start of it. Reagan cozying up to the evangelicals was a big step. The Koch brothers had a vague roadmap that looked a lot like project 2025 in the 1980s. Starting in or around 2000, the republicans made a strong push to win state and local elections and pack the judiciary with conservative zealots. The explosion of the internet and social media let them put their propaganda machine into overdrive. The truth died of COVID-19 but it was terminally ill for decades before that.

What a terrible, wasteful idea. Cracking hydrogen out of water at home will waste so much electricity that you may as well just drive a damned car.

Idiotic propaganda probably paid for by the fossil fuel industry

To hell with accessing it. I want to get rid of it, permanently. I hate everything about it.

With a nice chianti?

Your penultimate statement is an absolutely textbook example of survivorship bias.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2025/03/01/do_household_appliances_really_not_last_as_long_as_they_used_to_1093575.html

The average lifespan of a washer has declined a little but the frequency of use during that lifespan has increased measurably.

Survivorship bias is a heck of a drug.

They’re not ignoring it, they’re suppressing it.

* mother shucker

Iconic

For me it was Gina P, in kindergarten, 1971.

Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana.

I use freetube and/or smarttube every day, sometimes for pretty long periods, and I’ve never experienced more than brief hiccups.

I would bet this tracks fairly closely to percentage of pickup truck owners

so a typical weekday, eh?

https://lemmy.world/post/31853730

Also, “the rhythm is gonna get you.”