Usually, yeah. People will hide them for kids to find or they’ll sit out as decorations for a few days. By the time they’re done being “Easter eggs” they’re all kinds of nasty / spoiled. (American eggs require refrigeration)

There’s a lot to unpack here:

1. This is going to be one of things future generations look back on like we look back at the Great Depression (I’m trying not to think about Great Depression 2)
2. The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.
3. Why can’t people just use the reusable plastic eggs? Bonus is you can put candy inside.

Edit: Okay, thank you. Apparently we just did “Easter Eggs” wrong growing up.

I misread the headline as “Punitive or a grift?” and was like “yes”.

Interesting. Didn’t realize it went back that far - again, I had always (mis-) attributed the quote to Carlin. Thanks for sharing.

I realize you properly kept the title the same as the article’s, but “Risk” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there.

Aside from a funeral and a couple of weddings, I haven’t set foot in a church since I moved out on my own. However, I would absolutely sit down for a service where the preacher read passages from the New Testament with the moral of the sermon being “Are we the baddies?”

I mean, they are 100% Christian values though they’re not Christ’s values.

I like this Jesus fellow, but his fan club is the worst.

Paraphrased, and can’t recall who said it (I thought it was George Carlin but can’t find the quote).

“Pro-family”, “family friendly”, “family values”, and similar phrases are pretty much all dogwhistles for “Christian values” but not the values that actually help anyone (love thy neighbor, etc).

I’d like to think that. But also, we’re the country where the 1/3 pound burger failed because people thought it was less portion than a 1/4 pound burger.

Turnabout’s fair play 🤷‍♂️ My state-level politicians have been running as Democrats and then switching parties after they’re elected. 😠

I’m reading that in a positive light: abolish political parties (i.e. no more magic ‘R’ for the mouth-breathers to look for).

Everyone (sane, insane, benevolent, evil, corrupt, etc) runs as Republican. Nice little loophole.

His approach blended populist messaging with economic nationalism, drawing both cheers from supporters stupid people and warnings from economists and global leaders everyone else.

Fixed that for them.

Silly rabbit. Crime is for poor people.

When a rich person does it, it’s just being smart.

MAGA Gun Nuts / 2nd Amendment Absolutists / NRA: 🦗

Will the real suckers and losers, please stand up?

Or at least would the real suckers and losers please shut up? They’re always the loudest and dumbest in any space, and it’s as if they stopped talking for even a second, they might actually have a critical thought (and that terrifies them).

Not discounting that (it’s a cool project), but NOAA/NWS are the ones that issue the EAS severe weather alerts (when your phone/TV/radio goes all REEET REEEEET REEEET letting you know shit’s getting real). Some severe weather you can plan for based on forecast (snow storms, some thunderstorms), others you need constant eyes on and as much warning as possible (tornadoes).

And tornado season is coming up, so…yeah, buckle up, Midwest.

Edit: Also, I feel your username lol.

Yes they do.

Edit: As others have said, Puerto Rico is a US territory rather than a state, and they don’t have representation in Congress, but in all other aspects (and as far as “papers, please” goes), they are 100% US citizens.

Only if you’re rich and/or a racist with power.

Am I missing something? This is categorized as a Satire site: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mcsweeneys-internet-tendency/

Musk has already proven he can buy a national election. … If he is successful at buying 50 state elections

Wisconsin is his test run of that as we speak.