When I was little, I remembered the placement by thinking the king and queen don’t want to stand next to the horse, because it probably smells like shit.

Same reason they’re against Antifa. You would think being anti-fascist is an easy position to take, but here we are.

Also the Over the Hedge version of Rockin’ the Suburbs by Ben Folds Five:

We drive our cars every day
To and from work both ways
So we make just enough to pay
To drive our cars to work each day
Hey hey

Well the shareholders can’t have that. It gets in the way of their endless profits.

My mind goes straight to

You can rip just the part that’s the movie. Most DVDs have the ads before the menu, so on the disk it’s a separate file. There are probably better alternatives, but I use a program called MakeMKV that lets you open a disk and only save the videos you’re interested in. IIRC there’s a free version that lets you rip DVDs and a paid version that also does BluRays (assuming you have an optical drive that can read them,of course). I bought it probably about a decade ago and was still able to recently activate a new copy using my old activation code.

Huh, didn’t know BMG has been around so long

Worth it to avoid getting MH17’d

Welcome to the future! No need to shape your own world views, they will be determined for you by The Algorithm™

Sounds like it’s time for Vetinari to have a word with them.

That’s working under the generous assumption he was there to protect American ideals, and not to fulfill his dream of shooting brown people.

Farrah Fawcett as Faucet: An automatic faucet

:|

🎶In the not too distant future…🎶

Especially when he has to keep taking time off work to suffer Horrors Beyond Human Comprehension™

Some people are really weird when it comes to things being “fair.” I forget the details but I remember a study where given the option of getting $100 and a stranger getting $200, a good chunk of people would rather neither of them get anything.

Russian puppet spouts Russian propaganda, more at 11

I’m not sure they expected no one to think it was foul play, but I’ll bet they expected not to see any consequences, which historically has been a very safe bet for them to make.

Unless they’re responsible for a crime, then suddenly they’re a faceless abstraction, and you can’t charge those with anything silly!

I should mail the CIA every once in a while, let them know I have fewer than ten ICBMs. Keep them on their toes.