Kids have a distinct advantage in this ongoing consumer tech war between parents and kids.

I don’t use TikTok, but I’d be pretty surprised if this wasn’t already starting to trend there, along with ideas for where to put the airtags to fool parents.

Maybe just… talk to your kids?

“It’s his right. His White House, his rules.”

- Some unwashed blue collar Trump voter with less than $100 in his back account

It was a chocolate bar. What else do you eat with spaghetti in the bathtub?

Yes, they did. This is taken from the transcript of that episode, about 8 minutes in:

Chuck: They changed the pH on that filter to purposefully turn it brown as you smoke, so you look and you see, man, look at all that brown stuff that’s not getting into my lungs.

Josh: It fooled me for twenty years. Up until a couple of days ago, I had no idea that that was the case.

Chuck: Yeah, just one of the dirty tricks that cigarette manufacturers used and still used.

They also point out how the filter “is doing something” to reduce what makes it into your body, but not much.

Finish cooking the noodles. Put flavoring in a bowl. Use chopsticks (or a fork I guess, good luck) to move the noodles from the pot to the bowl. Pour enough water from the pot into the bowl to cover the noodles.

No extra dishes, no risk of noodle loss, just the right amount of liquid.

My favorite podcast, Stuff You Should Know, just did an episode on the invention and history of cigarettes, though they didn’t mention this little innovation.

Thought for sure this was straight out of an episode of Venture Brothers till I saw your link.

Rusty Venture’s cocktail recipes were an ongoing gag.

Thanks! I knew there was a term, but just couldn’t conjure it.

Oh, so Hertz has gotten wise to… every online platform that exists: Outsourcing all responsibility for their user-hostile bullshit to some vague “system” that cannot be held accountable.

I’m so sorry but the advertised cost has doubled because… Computer says so! No, sir, there’s nothing I can do, sir, you see it’s the system.

And you can’t go anywhere else, because everyone else is doing it (or soon will be) too!

The ol’ sausage twist

It’s always in the last place you look.

Of course not, the rules are for thee.

See? Trump said he’d create new jobs, and now you can start an exciting new career Disappearing Undesirables, or maybe even become an Official Military Restroom Pecker-Checker! Are we great again yet?

“The Coke of America,” naturally.

🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

Maybe try checking your premium Thesaurus.com account to find words with a similar meaning!

“Shitty” is just Trump’s style, so that tracks.

Right there with you. “It’s the hope that kills you” versus “Jesus please just let the world make sense for EVEN. ONE. DAY.”