Fortunately several thousand other people made that same point long before he did, so we can always just agree with one of them instead.

kinda disappointed it’s not a strandbeest with one of those litter-picker-upper sticks taped to the front

Search Engine Optimization. Basically gaming search engine indexing algorithms so that your content appears more “relevant” (read: crammed full of as many keywords as possible) and thus higher up on search results, usually at the expense of having, you know, actual content worth reading.

I use uBlacklist with this filter and that generally keeps the repeat offenders at least out of image search, but clearing out every SEO-spam print-on-demand mimc-site was already a game of whack-a-mole before consumer LLMs became a thing; I imagine now it’d be like playing whack-a-mole with a hydra. Still, it does at least help.

Ugh. Hate when that happens.

My class was set to graduate right around the time the pandemic hit and a lot of people ended up graduating late because the school literally couldn’t offer the classes they needed to finish their degree. Anyone to whom your date of graduation is actually relevant likely isn’t going to bat an eye at anyone who was in college within the last 5 years graduating a couple months late.

And, of course, there’s that old stand-by moral of “the only reason it seems like all your peers are doing better is because the ones in the same situation as you aren’t going on social media to brag about it.” So don’t rely on that as a metric too heavily.

“Eat your dice, Brennan!”

You just summoned, like, 5⅓ Beetlejuices. Beetles Juice?

“Hale and well-met, everybody.”

“Nørmr!”

“What would you say to an ale, there, Nørmr?”

“I’d say ‘Make peace with the spirits of your ancestors, for you shall soon greet them in Valhalla.’”

Doubly appropriate since “Only A Fool Would Say That” was allegedly written as a jab at John Lennon.

Which is gonna be a real road block when they get to Step 8.

What is a boy to do???

I’ve always far preferred the Weird Al version, myself.

And try very hard to let the door hit you on the way out!

I mean look I hate to say it but Imaginary Pete Hegseth’s got a point. Y’all actually read these steps? Step 2 is just “decide to do Step 3”, Step 5 is just Step 1 again but louder, Step 6 is “get ready to do Step 7”, Step 8 is “make a list of all the stuff you have to do for Step 9”, Step 10 is just “Keep doing Step 4”, and then Steps 11 and 12 don’t matter because Step 10 is an endless loop. How many innocent Americans (and Pete) are we gonna leave trapped on Step 10 before someone finally does something?

I suppose, to be fair, I would also probably strive to do the exact opposite of anything the Heritage Foundation told me to do.

if anything they’ve reopened their account with Master Don

“Well I was trying to add Jeff Goldblum and your names are obviously right next to each other in my phone, so…”

I got a lot of mileage out of the fact that there’s a specifically Portuguese Man o’ War on page 79 of the AD&D Monster Manual, implying the existence of a Portugal somewhere in the Forgotten Realms.