i think part of it is that people kinda expect china to be spying, so it’s a devil you know.

soup is overly diluted stew

people generally watch more new films than old films, yes

guy with ADHD walks in, forgets why he entered, remembers when he sees the coffee, chugs 3 caraffes and calmly asks what’s up with all the coffee

but also that he’s not too much of an asshole, which is why this comic is perfect

fucking addicts trying to get water from the tap
“oooooh i’m thirsty! my body needs water to function!”
they don’t even hesitate to make up lies!

they have non-curse words?

well i was interested but no way would i live in denmark

That’s quite interesting, here in sweden at least (but i’m pretty sure the same applies to all the nordics at least) flagpoles are and have been very normal (though not super common), but they basically only ever fly the little triangular version of the flag. Basically a very very big and expensive decoration.

i mean turning blood into wine does feel vampire-adjacent, but he did also rise from the dead so… both?

you do realize that people don’t live in tiny apartments because that’s the dream of their life, right?

they live like that because they have to live in the city to find work, and the cities have absurd housing shortages which makes the tiny apartments the least expensive option. They live like that because the alternative is fucking dying of exposure on the streets.

learn to code and you’ll forever more be going “i could probably fix this if i could be fucked to get familiar with the codebase”

and image editing has been trivial for decades

once in a lifetime
water flowing underground

i can hear what he’s saying but a second later i have no earthly clue what he said

It’s a shame the concept of an “ideas man” has been ridiculed for so long, because that’s precisely what it lets you be good at.
If you can put together a jack of all trades to spawn vaguely sensible ideas, and someone who hyperfocuses on a field of interest, you can just churn out good ideas that are well on the way to being implementable.

the best part of this is that you can just completely bullshit some people, confidently state something absurd and they just go “wow flying fishes evolved from birds? wild”

the “smart and gifted” to “burnout” to “neurodivergence diagnosis” pipeline

it frustrates me to no end that society still hasn’t realized we need to identify diagnoses earlier, it fucking SUCKS to figure it out after puberty and having to spend years internalizing that you’re not a failure, you just need to do things differently.

We have a light switch that we had no clue how to operate when we moved into our new house, and it was painful how utterly impossible it was for my mom to figure it out, she tried using it like a normal switch several times and simply gave up…
I then went “well it presumably works somehow, let’s just test all the possible ways there are to interact with a button”, and it turns out you hold the switch in to dim/brighten the lamp alternately. Took me like 2 minutes to figure out.

Which explains why people like her struggle so immensely with computers and technology, and man it’s exhausting to deal with.

shit, i wanna see the balrog too!
can i see it?
Hey! we looking at the balrog?
Guys elrond is showing us the balrog!