People are so eager to relinquish control of their business, even their life, for the tiniest bit of convenience.

People? Like IRL? I’ve only ever seen it happen online.

You Can Call Me Cocaine.

Young Freud (from Wikimedia)

At least now we know how long it takes to make it look like a suicide.

I pictured something like this:

Lick mercury? Plenty of people carry lumps of it right in their teeth, 24/7.

Evil shit.

Do you have any idea what the average naked person looks like?

What the hell was that?

That’s a wrap.

Then it molds. And the mold tends to survive the dishwasher.

That poor fish.

It’s a quote from Blade Runner.
Lemmy, I am disappoint.

Here’s hoping that some USB flavors will be phased out, but then again, fucking TIFF is still around, so…

You know you are in deep shit when your vacation time is measured in hours.
I’m just so, so sorry.

Wow! Thank you so much for this.
The story and style remind of the - by internet measures ancient - A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible comics which I always thought would be very difficult to top.

SpongeBomb SpallatePants

Y’all probably already knew about the Valeriepieris circle, I guess.

Pasolini wrote a famous essay in 1975, “The Disappearance of the Fireflies,” which, at that time, was already starting to become very noticeable. Of course, the essay was really about capitalism.
Personally, outside my childhood in the countryside, I noticed fireflies in the outskirts of a largish city some 20 years ago, then nothing for a very long time, and then I saw a few when I lived for a brief period of time in a really remote place, like an hour from the nearest highway. No trains anywhere near, too.

Off-topic, but if you don’t know Pasolini, I urge you to read his last interview which seems particularly gloomy as it appears to foreshadow his own death just a few hours after.
One memorable quote:

I listen to the politicians – all the politicians – with all their little presumptions and I turn into a mad man as they prove they do not know which country they are talking about, they are as far away as the moon. And together with them there are the men of letters, the sociologists and the experts in any kind of field.