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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

The second brick is 17% SHIB coin increase

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

My personal one

IIRC Pushback against "Unsafe at any speed" was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

It was always Ralph Nader's fault.

(To the down voter: Ralph Nader fought to bring regulations for mandatory seat belts, among other life saving consumer safety issues he had a hand in. Man's a hero. Also, this is a joke. Ffs)

[–] anomnom 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He might have blown the 2000 election for Gore and doomed the planet to runaway global heating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That was Chad's fault.

(And roger stone, and john Bolton, and the supreme court. And Pat Buchannon who was another 3rd party spoiler whom many ballots were accidentally cast. 20% of his votes came from that single county. Nothing strange at all.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The joke worked for me.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which part's a joke? I can't tell which of you think you're being funny.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seat belts> Ralph Nader, ah fuckit, you're boring and humorless.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

I think you overestimate your ability to communicate irony in text-only media.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I added a brief explanation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry I still don't really understand. What does "unsafe at any speed" mean?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a book by Ralph Nader calling out unsafe vehicle design in the 70's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh damn. I didn't realise just how ahead of his time (by Anglosphere standards) Nader was. We're 50 years on and just now are the evils of motornormativity starting to be more widely understood.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now you have to explain how they relate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I added a brief explanation

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago

At least there's a Jamaican bobsled team somewhere in the middle

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] felykiosa 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

which one of those dominoes is my collection of rare pepes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They just lost all value. Post your rarest pepe or I'll report you to DOGE.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I don't know bout y'all but my rarest pepe was forged in the physical world with a pencil and a sheet of paper. It was so rare and powerful that I had to split it into 7 pieces and scatter them across the land.

I'm not sure where the pieces are now exactly. Last I heard, there were two competing search teams hunting for them, one being a ragtag team of inexperienced heart-of-gold types and the other being some sort of evil empire.

I figured it'd be best not to get involved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you had told me ten years ago that one day "°I will report you to doge" would be a valid sentence and a real threat, I wouldve died

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Upvote comments you reply to or I'll report you to DOGE!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~IIRC Pushback against "Unsafe at any speed" was the literal origin of the conservative think tank as a political movement. I think Behind the Bastards did an episode on it or maybe Stuff you missed in history class?~~

Meant to post this as a response to my picture

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry I'm OOTL. I presume this is the much wow shiba in memes but I didn't know this caused anything to america? Can someone fill me in about some of the dominos in-between please?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Musk and his love of memes just got appointed to a new government position at the Department Of Government Efficiency or D.O.G.E. for short.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It should be said this is a newly created Department and its authorities are nebulous. Could have power over everything, nothing, or in between.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Wtf seriously!? Omg

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

And I was wondering why is doge coin trending so hard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's probably turtles all the way down, but I think "A[n] ~~British~~ animators's email segment co-star ~~mispronounces~~ misspells 90s greeting" might be an even smaller domino.

Edited to replace failing memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What's the story? I think I never heard of that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Well, I misremembered half of it, but Homestar Runner was one of the many flash animations of the flash-craze heyday. Occasionally, they were puppets. From nearly 25 years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSgRzCAtXA