Choosing the devil you know over the devil you don’t know can be very risky, because the devil you don’t know may not be a devil at all…
Asides
The more absurd the idea…
The more absurd the idea, the more complex the defense…
Thank God We’re not Pod-people
A: (ANY STATEMENT)
B: I disagree!
A: Thank God we’re not all pod-people.
Voting
If you have to explain why every adult citizen in a democracy must be allowed to vote, you’re having serious problems with your democracy!
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Time estimate conundrum
When developers say a piece of work will take 2-4 hours what really happens is one of three things:
- It takes 2-4 hours to finish the job
- It takes 2-4 radians of hours (a.k.a hours times pi) to finish the job
- It takes 2-4 bitcoins to finish the job
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Marketing
Marketing:
“I’ll give you a $100 discount!”
“Wow, what will that give me?”
“A sandwich… with cheese… If you want ham it’s $200…”
“…”
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123 Handmaid
Step 1: Ban abortions
Step 2: Ban contraceptives
Step 3:
And then I’m not even commenting on what’s going to happen to USA’s already abysmal maternal mortality rate… (Oh yeah, American women die during birth more often than women in any other developed country! Abortion bans will not help…)
Did you really vote for this?
Character Encoding
Character encoding-dong the document is dead!
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Filibuster Machine
I’m creating a filibuster machine. It consists of a printout of a life-size image of Amy Acker I had lying on my hard drive (no further comments!) and an mp3-player…
“Set to stun” will never happen in reality
Why “set to stun” will never happen in reality:
“Shut up mom!”
Zaaap-kabooom!
“Oh! Shit! I thought it was set to stun…”
Talkwards 