I remember having to do projects in school, working hard with the limited materials my family could afford, and using my creativity to make up for it to get a B.

Meanwhile, kids with rich parents went all-out, using materials I didn’t have access to, coming back with displays that their parents clearly helped them assemble, complete with polished, laminated reports. Naturally, their fancy projects got them As.

I also remember thinking what bullshit it was that the poorer kids got worse grades despite trying their best.

Then I grew up and realized it’s all part of the same crooked system. Of course the wealthier kids got better grades - it’s simply the start of a life-long advantage they had over the rest of us. There was no winning for the rest of us then, just as there’s no winning for the rest of us now.

“Sorry” = an attempt to be polite. What’s the better response? Is just a straight “No thanks” going to go over better?

Genuinely asking, what’s the best way to reject a date offer if, “Sorry, not interested” is the wrong response?

There are some (admittingly, crap quality) 90-ish minute clips of straight-up old school Nickelodeon on Youtube. The only ads are the ones that originally aired. It’s like nostalgia soup for me, and it’s pretty clear these are just clips someone set a VCR to record, stored for decades, and then transferred to the internet. Which again, makes for crap quality, but it warms my heart to think that some of this could’ve been lost footage if not for some random tapes some kid in the 90s recorded then forgot about for many years.

Btw, Pete & Pete still slaps.

“Bugs” even refers to errors on computers. Funny how the pedants don’t go into computer forums and berate the coders for using “bug” incorrectly.

To build on this, this usage is called a non-count noun. Less beer, less water, less air, less sand, etc. all refer to non-countable quantities of some substance. Beer could be counted, if referred to by some metric (“one glass of beer,” “24 ounces of beer”), same as “a bottle of water,” “one tank of air,” “a truckload of sand.”

Which is all to say that you’re right. “Less beer” makes far more sense than “fewer beer.”

Which just means wait about a week and try again.

This reminds me of a moment on the most awful night of my life. I was stranded penniless in a bar in a strange city as my ex fucked around partying with other women (I broke up with him moments before. But he drove me there, so I was stuck.) I found a quiet corner to cry in as I tried to figure out what the fuck I was supposed to do next.

Some girl came over, saw me bawling, and asked to take my picture. The fuck? You see somebody crying alone and your response is to try taking a picture of them? What is wrong with some people?

Same. I often look at my own hands, for example, when I’m drawing particular hand poses. As an artist, it’s good practice to start with what you know. As you get more skilled, it gets easier to branch out to new things.

Sometimes I paint nude figures. My ex-boyfriend noticed me studying his penis one day, and when I made a painting with a guy in it, he recognized his own member, lol. I have the opposite situation to this comic though; when I draw women’s chests, I tend to make them big because, well, that’s what my chest is like.

I also just like boobs. They’re really fun to draw (among other things.) ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

It probably depends on where you live. Trends usually peak in cities quicker than in rural areas. Often by the time people in the sticks are getting into a new trend, it’s already “old” in big cities. At least, from what I’ve observed.

I refilled my old Stanley at work, filling half of it with ice, at the end of Thursday. By the time I clocked out on Friday, after a full day of use and subsequent refills, there was still ice clinking around in it. Not gonna lie, the insulation in that thing is incredible. It does easily acquire dents and dings though - after two years of use, the bottle can’t stand upright without wobbling anymore.

But I was given it as a gift, so I can’t complain. A water bottle is a water bottle to me.

Obnoxious ads work to make me put a company on my “shit list” so I never buy from them. I’ve already got loads of places I refuse to shop from, so it’s nothing to me to add another.

I have a coworker who has ground rules like that for her kids. She says they’re allowed to swear around her, provided that it isn’t excessive. However, she instills boundaries on it. No swearing at school, with extended family (who might disagree with her choices), and some other rules. She emphasizes that the context is important, and as long as the kids respect those rules, they won’t be in trouble for it.

And here I figured the popularity of online porn made most people ambidextrous masturbators. I mean, if a righty uses a mouse in their right hand…

Ugh, I feel this in the USA too. I went to get some groceries the other day - purposely “just picking up a few things.” I live in an area where you have to bring your own bags, and I only brought two, so I was careful with my limits.

It was still sticker shock at the register, as my total was between $90-$100 USD. What the actual fuck.

I’m sorry you’re all dealing with the same thing north of the border. I also understand if my comment isn’t welcome in this community - I’ll delete it if so. I just found the meme painfully relatable and wanted to commiserate.

A long-haired, sandal-wearing man preaching peace and love, who probably smelled like cannabis?

Jesus was a hippie, it’s confirmed.

I have a fun head-canon that combines Christian mythology with that of ancient Rome and/or Greece. It all starts with Jesus’s animal metaphors. Jesus is a lamb of God. Jesus is a dove of peace. Jesus is represented with a drawing of a fish.

So it seems that Jesus has interesting shapeshifting powers. Sounds reminiscent of another deity, doesn’t it? Zeus famously transformed into animals in order to seduce women. He also had a jealous wife, Hera, who frequently punished his extra-marital partners.

My thinking goes that Zeus seduced Mary once upon a time. However, knowing his wife’s wrath, he never disclosed it, and advised Mary to say she was a virgin in order to throw her off Hera’s radar.

Thus, Jesus the shape-shifting son of God was born. In a manger, of all places. Perhaps Zeus was there to support Mary in the form of a sheep or something.

Wow, it’s like a blast from the past. It looks like the kind of personal webpage you’d stumble across back in 2000. The only thing missing is music that auto plays when the page loads (thank goodness.)

Also not a tech person, but I am an artist. I used to consider going into digital art, but now I’m grateful I didn’t and instead have honed … I guess you can call it “manual” art? As a way to say things I make with my hands? Maybe “analog” or “traditional” art?

Point is, I haven’t seen an AI create a pencil drawing or an acrylic painting. I get the feeling that as people tire of AI generated images, they may find renewed interest in these distinctly human-made art forms. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see. For now, AI may try to steal forms and ideas, but picking up a pencil or a paintbrush and creating something on a canvas are still out of its reach (thank goodness.)

This just in: adults don’t get kids’ memes. More news at 11.

I think it’s all fascinating, how adults flip out over kids’ trends every generation, without fail, without ever recalling that they followed silly fads/memes when they were kids, too. Like the “cool S” from the 90s.

I remember adults coming up with all sorts of absurd ideas, straining to connect it to something meaningful, failing to acknowledge that… it’s just a fun thing to draw. And if it’s fun, that’s all kids need. It didn’t mean we were in a cult, or that it’s a gang symbol, or any other ridiculous narrative. Some teachers got so annoyed or suspicious as to ban it from their classrooms, too.

I’m not bothered by 6-7. I’m not excited by it like kids are, but I get that it’s fun for them in a way that it isn’t for adults. One of the kids I work with said it the other day. I just laughed and told him, “Congrats on learning your first meme.”

If it wasn’t 6-7, it would’ve been something else. There’s no point in fighting it - just as other fads and memes have come and gone, this too will fade someday. Possibly to be replaced with something more obnoxious. We’ll have to wait and see.

I remember when that used to be considered “tacky.” In fact a whole lot of things so-called “influencers” do today are things that probably would’ve gotten them labeled as “tacky” and “sell-outs” back in the 90s. Somehow, over the course of the decades, these things have become acceptable and expected.

I cringe when a Youtuber shills for companies, especially since it was revealed that “Honey” (which I used to see a lot of creators promote) was screwing over the very people who advertised for it.