The serious non-joke answer is the same as the one for these standing seats: emergency exit speed. When an airplane crash lands you have like less than 2 minutes to get everyone out before the huge inferno happens and roasts people. So for standing seats that pack even more people into an airplane, they have to prove that they can still get everyone out before the deadline. For laying-down seats they would have to prove the same thing.

That’s what makes the joke funny

This is fucking rad.

Ok then what does it mean, o enlightened one?

That’s out of pure desperation.

No, you aren’t necessarily expected to answer. “Hi” is a totally normal and expected response, for example.

It has nothing to do with tax. It’s just to make the price look one smaller. May I ask where you were taught it had anything to do with tax?

You understand perfectly. It’s fucking stupid. No, the fraction never changes. It’s just a culturally and legally accepted price scam, one of many that only exist in the land of freedom. The price listed is literally never the price you pay in the USA.

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(Disclaimer: this is not a fully formed counter-argument to your statement, merely my thought-vomit).

As a kid growing up in the 90’s you wouldn’t believe the amount of times my parents and teachers vehemently insisted to me that I MUST do dictionary lookup drills because there’s no way I would just always have access to an electronic dictionary in my pocket. I was also told that I absolutely HAD to be fast at paper-based multiplication and long division. It’s not like I would just carry a calculator around with me everywhere I go, that would be insane!

Please don’t conflate American scientists and American politicians. There is absolutely zero intersection between those two groups, and if you don’t think American scientists are on the forefront of nearly every field of research I don’t know what to tell you…

Not how drugs work

Uhh wrong thread?

I’m doing a bunch of vacationing at famous museums and it’s insane to me that after we all just learned how to survive a pandemic, I have seen exactly ZERO people who are sick and coughing up a lung in the museums are wearing a fucking mask. I hate humanity.

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to lie if the text is yellow and scrolls from the bottom of the screen in 3D.

It’s only weird Puritans and places colonized by Puritans that are anti-human about touching and intimacy. Remember where the Kama Sutra is from, for example.

All parables and proverbs are made up, with old characters added to give fake legitimacy.

1/10 no tutorial on how to jump over an office chair.