I recently found my Radiohead Kid A stickers that have been waiting for the perfect placement since 2001.

I sit down on the toilet, open Lemmy, this is the first thing I see.

Climate change denial is reality denial.

This guy resists

I grew up on the water. Saw these stickers everywhere. Cool, we all go to the beach all the time, we live on an island.

Then 7 years ago I moved to central PA. I see one of these stickers on cars here all the time. I’ve been making fun of it for years. I think they don’t know the river here is fresh water.

I had a similar discussion with some people at a barber shop back when Pre-Elon Twitter banned Trump. They were complaining about free speech and I asked if they knew what it actually meant (in the US). When I explained that we are ONLY guaranteed free speech from the gov’t, and that Twitter was a private business and could ban whoever they want, the same way this barber shop could tell someone not to ever come back everyone got real quiet like “oh shit I have to rethink my whole world view”. I actually got thanked at another time by one employee for telling them how it actually works.

I enjoyed the Orb trend more, but it didn’t have the same staying power. You’d think they would have pondered that and done better.

I’ve literally never had an account. I’ve never even like started the process. I get emails a few times a year from them because ONCE a friend invited me. This was over a decade ago.

I have been eyeing this crowd sourced map thing for a week or two. When I read this headline today I learned there was a centralized app for it. I immediately downloaded it.

I used to work in merchandising, and it doesn’t exactly work this way. To some extent it does, but there’s a lot more nuance.

When a printing shop gets a contract to do team merch for playoffs, they will be given ALL the possible art, all the possible colors for blank shirts to print on, and a scheduled scenario. For example, after game 2 if the series is tied 1-1, don’t print. If after game 2 the series is 2-0, print 25% of orders for winning team, etc.

The actual margins for the printers isn’t very high. So these types of contracts are necessary. It’s not easy to pack a building of screen printers at short notice to print, and often they end up having to print off hours or weekends.

This isn’t to say some loser shirts are printed. Many are. You may get that Indians shirt someday. It’s kinda a crazy world.

The answer to the question “who thought this was a good idea?” Is Coca Cola. The companies (and distributors) selling these products to stores negotiates with those stores to build these displays and decides what they look like.

Fuck em.

This is also how I spell it, but is it the correct spelling?

Edit: I should have just read further.

Weirdly, I am days fresh from a vasectomy.