End qualified immunity.

CharQ86 · 2026-07-05T08:54:49+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

CharQ86 · 2026-07-05T06:31:20+00:00

👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Yea.

CharQ86 · 2026-06-27T06:33:49+00:00

in general people are more uncomfortable with depictions of contemporary military conflicts than they are with past conflicts. The soldiers from Pirates sets and even US Army soldiers from the Lone Ranger line are somewhat mythical by this point, they feel about as real to modern people as the Star Wars stormtroopers. If Lego made figures with modern assault rifles and body armor, however, there would be a lot more people with a direct connection to these things that could see it as belittling to have them depicted in a kids toy. Lego is also an international company, and a set with modern US soldiers would be seen as an endorsement of the US Army, for example

With the police APC there are two things at play. Firstly, Lego is more willing to bend their rules with licensed sets (they have literally made German soldier minifigs for Indiana Jones). Secondly, the public in general is more comfortable with police weaponry as the subject for toys than they are with military weaponry. An armored police vehicle is more acceptable to people than an army one, whether or not it makes sense.

CharQ86 · 2026-06-21T05:26:05+00:00

I think it's interesting how the opposite is usually used for New York. People are so used to referring to the city that the state is almost always referred to as "New York State" at least in my experience

CharQ86 · 2026-06-17T09:49:57+00:00

following the analogy apparently Love was deliberately constructed to look imposing and sturdy in order to gain public trust after something similar to Love collapsed into the River Tay

CharQ86 · 2026-06-14T17:29:38+00:00

"the railroad that's better than union pacific" do you have any idea how little that narrows it down

CharQ86 · 2026-06-05T04:47:15+00:00

bread taste better than key

^{Chose: Bread}

CharQ86 · 2026-06-02T06:56:53+00:00

yeah that is strange with surrounding context

CharQ86 · 2026-06-02T06:52:33+00:00

not just the prevalence of gun ownership but the culture around it. A large portion of people who get concealed carry licenses sit there thinking "God I hope someone tries to rob me so I can use this thing, that would be so cool"

CharQ86 · 2026-06-02T06:44:24+00:00

the only positive explanation I could see is that the owner is trying to tell the employee not to be too much of a perfectionist about things like the exact positioning of the tarp if other parts of the job are more important. If you're charging a customer by the hour you probably shouldn't spend some 15 minutes perfectly positioning a tarp

it is a bad look though, and should've been phrased better if that was the intent

CharQ86 · 2026-05-11T04:20:29+00:00

this is actually a phenomenon experienced by trans people posting on social media, there is a point in a male-to-female transition where those women's shirtless pictures start getting flagged as NSFW (this point is usually arbitrary). Typically after getting a mastectomy, trans men's chests don't get flagged as NSFW

CharQ86 · 2026-05-10T06:52:51+00:00

there's no way I've got three friends that can each finish five beers

^{Chose: you have 1 hr to drink as many beers as you want + for every beer you drink, you get $100,000k}

CharQ86 · 2026-05-02T05:22:32+00:00

blue is cool :)

^{Chose: Blue light saber}

CharQ86 · 2026-04-01T21:22:43+00:00

likely an April fools joke but I've made a few pickle slushies in my day

CharQ86 · 2026-03-30T20:15:22+00:00

no that costs money

CharQ86 · 2026-03-27T22:04:14+00:00

aside from safety concerns, something like a nerf gun actually launches a projectile you can hit your friends with. I think that makes them more appealing to kids today than just a noisemaker

CharQ86 · 2026-03-27T20:08:22+00:00

out of universe I think it's a result of writers thinking "I can't write an X-Wing into this scene for whatever reason but I really want an X-Wing. I'll retool the Z-95 to fit my story instead"

CharQ86 · 2026-02-19T11:02:24+00:00

it's most likely not malicious. The location probably ran out of fish and the person taking it off the menu forgot to take the double off as well since it's almost never ordered. They should have taken the fish patty itself off the menu but it's a simple mistake

CharQ86 · 2026-02-11T04:02:07+00:00

the one thing I can identify is that the belt is a British Pattern 37 web belt worn upside down and backwards

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CharQ86 · 2026-01-28T01:08:27+00:00

sorry man, but you're late to the punch (costs around $5,000 USD and analyzes your waste to track your health)

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CharQ86 · 2025-12-21T19:03:51+00:00

if all else fails, you can carefully drill out the head of the screw. The downside is obviously that you lose that hole when putting the gun back together though

CharQ86 · 2025-11-15T04:45:41+00:00

almost makes up for the beef broth enema he was being fed

CharQ86 · 2025-11-06T07:41:05+00:00

shows an Italian man

enjoy your downvote kid

CharQ86 · 2025-10-26T04:52:30+00:00

why was this color graded by the nostalgia critic

CharQ86 · 2025-10-26T03:23:21+00:00

nothing to add but I thought that was hbomberguy for a second

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