Seconded.

And if they’re not available for this model/brand, switch to another if possible. There are a lot of headphones with replaceable pads, many of them very affordable.

Yeah, i think that’s it. It was pretty much just a hyperbolic commentary on the 2000s and the world kept heading in that direction.

It gets a lot of flak for it’s eugenics themes. I agree that the problem isn’t a system that breeds people genetically predisposed to stupidity. I would have preferred it if the movie had chosen a different mechanism for the dumbing down of the population.

Personally, I think it’s socioeconomic. Rising wealth inequality is causing a decline in the quality of the average median level of education.

According to the article, they bumped up the age for the driving test to 87. Drivers 79 to 86 just have to renew in person and take a vision test.

As for the deeper why, I think its pretty complex, but the short answer is probably that it’s easier and cheaper for governance. I imagine it’s simpler to throw the book at a driver after they mow down a kindergarten classroom than to navigate journalist interviews about why people of a certain age are having more trouble surviving because of a thing the government did to them.

Some alternatives would include increasing driving standards and having periodic tests, investing in public transportation so people aren’t effectively trapped if they lose the ability to drive, funding more social outreach programs for those who can’t drive, etc.

It’s all just time and money that governments don’t want to spend because it could be career suicide if their politician’s donors don’t like the resultant taxes. That little fact is the root of a lot more and bigger issues than just dangerous drivers.

For the last time, I’m pretty sure… what’s killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff.

But Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.

So wait a minute. What you’re saying… is that you want us to put water on the crops.

Yes. Water.

Like out the toilet?

Well, I mean, it doesn’t have to be out of the toilet, but, veah, that’s the idea.

But Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.

Okay, look.The plants aren’t growing, so l’m pretty sure that the Brawndo’s not working. Now, I’m no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow.

Well, I’ve never seen no plants grow out of no toilet.

Hey, that’s good. You sure you ain’t the smartest guy in the world?

You wanna solve this problem. I wanna get my pardon So why don’t we just try it, okay, and not worry about what plants crave?

Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

Goddamn it. Yeah, it’s got electrolytes.

What are electrolytes? Do you even know?

It’s what they use to make Brawndo.

Yeah, but why do they use them to make Brawndo?

'Cause Brawndo’s got electrolytes.

After several hours, Joe finally gave up on logic and reason… and simply told the cabinet that he could talk to plants… and that they wanted water. He made believers out of everyone.

That’s so weird. Why do they even care what the replacement reason is?

It’s like, “Just deactivate them and send new ones to the address on record.”

Maybe they were stolen. Maybe they were slid through someone’s buttcrack as a joke and merchant’s won’t take stinky buttcards. Shouldn’t matter. The cards are now unusable for whatever reason. They should send new ones.

Oops. Good catch. Should have said megameters. Now the whole planet is scorched. My bad.

Your house after your package arrives on time, traveling at over 100 gigameters per second

Hmm, that’s the kind of thing that might create a brave new world.

That’s a pretty good start

Agreed, but how dark and or grotesque are we willing to go?

That mugshot goes hard

Repeat pawfender

I was thinking someplace much hotter and a lot farther down.

This insult has the highest ratio of courtesy and eloquence to psychosocial damage in the history of insults.

Hard to tell. Sometimes the term gets used as subderfuge so the person can act on feelings they believe may be inappropriate to the relationship from lack of reciprocity, reprisal if it’s against policy at work, or if it violates the terms of another romantic relationship. I don’t know if it’s fair to automatically call the use of the phrase dishonest, but it definitely provides harborage for those who would use it that way. If someone at work referred to me as their work spouse, I’d quickly help them find a better term as nicely as possible but without compromise on that point. I just can’t see a valid, ethical reason not to let other people know where they stand with me. I mean that in the best possible way, and I don’t think “work spouse” accomplishes that in a way that both defines and honors the relationship most effectively.

He should go someplace a whole lot warmer.

Is that why it always looks like glitter makeup got rubbed off on him? I also assumed it was from much worse events.

Also, the coffee isn’t free, but you can’t buy it either. You get charged per sip, and there’s a base subscription fee for access. If someone else takes interest in it, the price doubles.