Some Bernie people even went to Trump for the “drain the swamp” lie.

It doesn’t help that the Clinton campaign intentionally lent credence to Trump thinking he’d be a slam dunk compared to any of the half-sane Republicans in the primaries.

My Thai girlfriend says penis size doesn’t matter, but I still wish hers wasn’t bigger than mine.

Is this thread still active?

Remember way back when, when you could set icons to be whatever you want?

Consumer hatred works.

People could have dumped Netflix and all this other shit and forced better products…

Ok. But should you never put citrus in your garbage disposal because it summons the pipe demon, or are you supposed to put citrus in your garbage disposal because it repels the pipe demon?

Yeah but this is unironically unacceptable.

There was a time when I could not type faster than my computer could respond. The steady “upgrades” of software have made computers consistently worse, outpacing any hardware improvements by far.

I worked somewhere that had multiple time keeping systems but only one counted for getting paid and they didn’t talk to each other.

So you’d have to open one or more of the others, figure out the hours for each day - because it just showed start and end times, not total hours - and copy that into the getting-paid one. They made a little app to do the math for you that showed you what to copy into the other program.

I pointed out that this is literally what computers are for and it could be entirely automated and was told something like “you can’t trust computers to do it right”.

And don’t get me started on “If you submit your timecard on Wednesday, HR can process it by Xday so you get paid ‘a day early’”

I’m happy with my current liver, thanks.

The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers is not modern, but it is what inspired Lovecraft, and Chambers is a far better writer. It’s several short stories, is pretty accessible, and has some moderate critiques or observations on society that are still relevant.

Important caveats - it’s not all horror. Chambers was mostly a romance author who occasionally did horror and it shows near the end of the collection.

The beginning of the first story is pretty jarring to modern sensibilities, but Chambers was probably not a racist, and it was probably meant to be jarring even for readers of the day. It’s a story where you have to remember the author is not the narrator.

If you’ve seen the film, it will do all the swinging for you.

That’s some Stockholm Syndrome talk right there.