United Healthcare loves Dr. Kirby.

Who was Thorstein Veblen

pecuniary emulation drives consumers to spend more on displays of wealth and status symbols, as opposed to more useful commodities.

aka, Keeping Up With The Joneses, Conspicuous Consumption.

You’re in luck: There’s a Peanuts /c [email protected]

I would settle for just the Province of California.

Some birds use their own saliva or mud to glue their nest together.

I don’t think Mystique has considered how a Bamf! would affect her uterus from the inside.

DB2 has been using ISO dates by default for decades.

Nothing irritates me more than the “01-May-25”, “DD-Mon-YY” i.e. the way Oracle databases format dates by default.

I’ll sell you this NFT, so that you and only you can own this egg forever!

You might not, but someone is out there who can’t draw, or doesn’t want to put the time in to master making the art they want to see, or doesn’t want to pay fair rates for labor to put art in their content to make it look pretty for commercial purposes.

Either way, actual human artists are losing their economic leverage to make a living.

Soon, the only way we’ll be able to afford ice cream is virtually…

The quotes are from John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost, which was published in 1667.

Here’s the original text to the “farwel hope” quote

https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_paradise-lost_milton-john_1667/page/n89/mode/2up

It’s definitely not modern English, although a 1905 edition is the first thing that pops up in a Google search, and that is in recognizably modern English

Red Sox fan?

I had to look it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ECySsQthE

It must be an uh… acquired taste…

The Wehrmacht marching song Erika is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNivSAZUcOM

And there’s Horst Wessel Lied https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9DMRKv8-k

Note: Your character is highly unlikely to “Whump” into the left side obstacle. They are more likely to do the Michael Jackson standing walking in place motion while you try probing the left side for openings and weaknesses.

There’s something wrong with furry kink?

It’s not my thing, but my experience in person at scifi cons is that furries are some of the best people in fandom.

Bot: “I thought it was just a name. I’m not going to let words imposed by others define me, so I’m changing it.”

It’s always the logs that get me…

Back when theater admission was the price of a single coin…

But don’t let that distort things, because money was a lot more valuable back then.

According to this https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1935?amount=1

A USD$1 in 1935 was worth about $23.15 in purchasing power today.

This site says that a quarter, $0.25, was the price of a movie ticket in 1935 https://www.davemanuel.com/whatitcost.php

Let’s say Sluggo is paying a quarter/$0.25 for admission in 1935, that would be around $5.79 today, or $4.36 depending on what metric you believe.

Let’s say Sluggo is a child, and paying child admission to a matinee. That’s currently $13.78 on AMC’s website today.

God’s phone doesn’t have sleep mode?