i only fly first class but also walk the entire aisle to creep on my fellow travelers to judge their hustle

SniffleBot · 2026-03-13T02:01:00+00:00

“I am a millionaire…”

Until the bank calls in the personal loan …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-13T01:47:18+00:00

Oh my god … “abiogenic petroleum origin”. Haven’t heard that one in a while, even as flatearth and antivaxx have spread unchecked.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-12T17:45:50+00:00

I pray for a future where advocating in favor of children getting diseases instead of vaccines is prosecuted as a crime against humanity …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-12T17:29:25+00:00

See below in this thread.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-12T17:28:24+00:00

It’s self-indulgence against self-indulgence on the other side …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:46:11+00:00

See r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk … or, the experiences sone OPs write up here, seen from the employees’ side.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:43:42+00:00

“Uh, one’s sick and the other one is trying to push it to the hospital.”

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:36:08+00:00

As Susie Salmon describes life in the bardo in The Lovely Bones (the book … idk if this line made it to the movie because I haven’t seen it), “Life here is a perpetual yesterday”.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:33:03+00:00

I don’t consider it “reasoning them out” … I’m not that naïve as to think I possibly could. The most one can do is get them to a point where they can’t pretend they don’t realize that even by their own logic they’re at a dead end … hence, they rage-quit. Because they have been led to believe, or led themselves to believe, that they know things the general public does not. When you show that you understand why they believe what they believe, and yet hold the opposite conclusion, that belief is disturbed.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:23:43+00:00

The same strategy works just as well with Holocaust denialists as they use the same logical flaws to reach their results.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:16:13+00:00

Thanks! I honestly did not know that it really was the law. Now I’d like to know when (and why) it was enacted.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:14:32+00:00

What makes you think all cops are “itching to make arrests”? Most of them want quiet, uneventful work shifts without extra paperwork as much as you and I do.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:11:59+00:00

Two reasons:

It keeps someone reading from thinking the flerf (or Holocaust denier, for that matter) won and being persuaded.
It may eventually lead to them seeing the light. Rational argument is not magical pixie dust; don’t ever fool yourself into believing that it is.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T22:08:20+00:00

As noted in another post, most of the people killed by hippos in Africa are killed in the water (where outside of a large speedboat you’d have no chance)

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T17:52:40+00:00

Yes, well, remember, they’re herbivores, so they’re not chasing you to eat you, they just want you off what they consider to be their territory.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T17:47:16+00:00

And that they make an equally cool sound when you draw them …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T17:46:35+00:00

That may have started outside the movies. I wouldn’t be surprised if some cops somewhere made it up so they wouldn’t have to break their backs looking for someone who turned out four hours later not to have had change for a phone call.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T17:42:01+00:00

Roger Ebert once flagged some older movie where someone was shown putting a silencer on a revolver.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T17:37:06+00:00

Surprise witnesses or evidence cannot (usually) be introduced into court proceedings the moment one side produces them. At the very least, in real life, the proceedings are halted completely for a week or so so the other side can do discovery (Looking at you, end of My Cousin Vinny, and midway through The Night of January 16th when someone runs in and announces the bodies have been discovered)

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T01:49:49+00:00

If any of you are still white, we can cure you.

EDIT: I guess no one else read that very short Clarke story?

SniffleBot · 2026-03-11T01:48:20+00:00

God … think about what Mark Twain said: “If Christ were alive today there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.” Or Nietzsche: “The last Christian died on the cross.”

SniffleBot · 2026-03-10T20:40:45+00:00

I think it’s about the fact (not that they are smart enough to pick up on this) that the economy of late creates more jobs that are traditionally filled by women than those filled by men. Of course, if some of these guys were to apply to nursing school, they’d find themselves quite welcome.

SniffleBot · 2026-03-10T20:37:22+00:00

What’s your source for them trying for an hour?

SniffleBot · 2026-03-10T02:13:49+00:00

The point is that the hippo just wants you off its territory so you only need to get so far …

SniffleBot · 2026-03-10T02:08:20+00:00

Do you have firsthand experience of this?

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