PeterLossGeorgeWall

We had better than a poke in the eye with a wet banana.

A lot of the original versions of the brothers Grimm stories. For example Cinderella, one of the sisters chops off bits of her feet so that she can try and get into the shoe Cinderella dropped. I think the Prince only figured it out because she's dripping in blood.

It's not the articles that are horrifying. It's the words and actions of these politicians that should have been a political death sentence. About half of the US seem fine with lies, racism, and homophobia. Even name calling was considered uncouth and it's just mud flinging now and they love it. That's what's horrifying. It wasn't the journos who did this, it was regular normal people.

Pull it out and leave in on the mayor's lawn. It'll be disposed of in no time. You know, even just deface it with a chisel.

They are protesting because Tesla want to extend their factory and chop down a forest to do so.

I think loads of things got better but advertising just got worse and worse. It's everywhere now. The Internet used to have no advertising. For live sports they have screens on the side of the pitch which constantly change the ads. There are sometimes ads superimposed (computationally) on the pitch grass. Sometimes they make the viewing size of the screen smaller so they can show you an ad around the edge. Or the worst, they just have a banner at the bottom with ads scrolling. Sports jerseys/vehicles etc are more and more cluttered by ads. Obviously the big change in the opposite direction is with streaming vs classic cable but even now streaming is trying to ram ads back in there. As an adult for me Mobile phones have always been available but we're talking pre Smart phones. Smart phones are just another place that I look that has ads and older phones didn't have ads. They had shit screens of course but no ads. YouTube, more and more ads. Podcasts, loads of ads, there used to be none.

Wasn't illegal voting already illegal? What did he do exactly?

It's not more efficient in how people want to get there. The people who stand and ride the escalator have no rush to get there quicker so they get there on time. The people who want/need to go faster get there as fast as possible. In your scenario everyone MUST be slow, no? What am I missing here?

Philip Pullman of his dark materials fame?

Needful things you mean. Rick and Morty were already referencing.

Which he'll overvalue! Honestly, considering the trials I'm not sure who would even buy anything from him for a serious amount of money. Might have to be at fire sale prices to get people to bite.

I live in Germany, it's how people answer the phone here, often. Not everyone but a lot, no Hallo after, just name.