We have these at airports in the US for luggage carts - though they don’t return any of your money if you bring the cart back they l’ve seen, so it doesn’t do much to modify behavior.

Freaking people who leave their carts in a parking spot… Straight to the top of the list!

Bonus: the photo was taken with a film camera and the graininess is from all the radiation.

Just have kids of your own. Then suddenly you’re consumed by their baby->childhood->high school->college playthroughs, which can keep you from staring into the void for another 20-30 years.

I visited both in a row over the summer on business and the misery just kind of ran together in my brain — and I’m saying that as a south floridian,mind so I have a certain tolerance for stupidity and pain.

Oh damn, you’re right, I mean Houston!

the house sizes and spacing between houses is highly correlated to the girth of an average citizen.

No idea if this is true or not but now I will definitely have to start paying attention.

I think the only rule they had when “planning” Dallas was “there are no rules”. Zero zoning rules means one giant skyscraper in the middle of a mile of strip malls, multiple city “centers”, vast areas of it are competely unwalkable due to lack of sidewalks and/or what are basically highways running through them, and no mass transit to speak of. It’s like they took 5 shitty, small cities and glued them together with more shitty city material.

If the US got rid of zoning laws our cities wouldn’t look like Tokyo, they’d look like Dallas. And believe me, one Dallas is more than enough.

The holy trinity of the Christmas season - Saturnalia, Yule, and the Coca-Cola version Santa Claus

I wonder if this matrix app was just a honeypot that was named to trick people into thinking they were using the “real” matrix.

• The God Father Christmas
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Reindeer
• No Country for Old Men in Red Suits
• Oppenheimer

And next year we get more tariffs too, and maybe even a trade war!

This reminds me of the plot of a Futurama episode where Leonardo da Vinci goes back to his home planet where he is a renowned moron.

Blissfully unaware, thanks.

Ooh, I haven’t tried the cannon thing yet… why did I never think of that?c

RIP, Steve. 😢

The amazing thing about this is that The Onion could literally repost most old Infowars headlines as-is since they were already usually the kind of absurd nonsense that hardworking Onion writers normally have to think up themselves.

Is that pedal set up up to drive the machine, or is it just for looks?

wasn’t there some research recently that said that like 20% of what your brain does was actually controlled by your gut microbiota?