Over here, they sell all sorts of “standard” sex toys, like vibrators, in drugstores. Out in the open, right next to the condoms and lube. #justeuropethings

It’s a line from TNG.

Textbook shakedown. He’ll not invade Greenland, Panama or Canada as long as he keeps getting the prize every year.

And maybe consider a robotomy.

It has to get worse before it can get better.

Look at election results all over the world. Capitalism is already collapsing… into fascism.
If history is any indication, this means being not productive enough might not only get you fired, but also imprisoned or disappeared. Gotta kickstart a whole trillionaire class soon.

Yeah. I’ve traveled a lot this year, and the negative trend I’ve been observing here in Europe is not a lack of bathroom doors, but the fact that the showers themselves are not 360° surrounded by walls, panes or shower curtains anymore. So now there’s no way bathroom floors can stay dry.

That’s what I was going to write. I don’t think people in 1981 knew what hit them.

¡Ji-ji!

Privacy invasion. I doubt that would hold water in the EU.
Also, do we really want to normalize mandatory cameras broadcasting from people’s homes? Where’s the outrage?

No strawmen?

Thanks, that’s a very good observation.
The meaning of “DPA” is clear to everyone participating in discussions about GDPR, though. It is a pretty big deal in the EU.
“Industry capture,” OTOH, is a very American talking point.

Agreed. FWIW, for me personally, it was a really good year. The only close contenders so far were 2001 and 2006.
Don’t know about the world outside my bubble, though.

The French is strong in this one.

In this case, everything you eat tastes like the first thing you ate.

Not sure if they qualify as “services,” but discogs, rateyourmusic and genius are holding up fairly well. IMDB is also pretty good, still.

Oh, that was my first car. Sometimes, the display changed to something weird though, like this: