Indeed. Riker needs to back the fuck up. Also, where's that human sacrifice?
There are plenty of examples of the tobacco industry telling on itself, but the mere existence of "automated cigarette QA" has to be one of the wildest.
Oh, so just smoke more? Ok, doc!
it was classified as a deadly nightshade
It's worth mentioning that while this seems insane to us now, it probably made a ton of sense at the time. The key is that tomatoes are in the same botanical family, so the plants have a lot in common. For example, here's what black nightshade fruit looks like:
You might see something that and think it resembles a dark tomato. Hundreds of years ago, people looked at a tomato and saw a red nightshade.
Some may be wondering how this scheme worked. Well, it didn't. As someone who waited tables during those times, this really only mattered for seating and where you could light up. In reality, every section was the smoking section since the second-hand smoking experience was practically everywhere, including the kitchen.
There's a special level of hell where your hair and clothes smell permanently of old cigarette smoke and fry grease, and it never washes out.
Well, what are the latest results?
Everything tastes like shit now and I can't smell anything. Also, my lungs hurt a little.
Excellent. Ship it!
I often wondered about this behavior. Every so often I would see someone go to their car in a parking lot, sit down in the driver's seat and just... go nowhere. Engine is running, music is on, driver has a 1000-yard stare. It's so far removed from my own experience - I never do this - that for the longest time, I couldn't wrap my head around it. Somehow, the phrase 'after a long day' made it click. So thanks, OP.
Apartment living also showed me that some people just hang out alone in the car instead of in the apartment. That I can understand as some units can be downright claustrophobic if you have a big family. Want privacy? Get a car payment I guess. :(
I misread "mystery over" as "mystery solved" instead of "mystery about".
Holy cow is this messed up.
Always has been.
"Might makes right" authoritarianism has no use for it. Why bother with getting people to like you when you have all the guns? Besides, these troglodytes are a pretty unlikable bunch in the first place - it's simply not how they navigate the world.
Some of you may remember this absolute diamond of insanity that was the "4-Day Time Cube." This was the go-to example of the internet as a universal amplifier for communication - for both the sane and insane alilke. It was there from nearly the start of the world-wide web, back in the 1990's. Alas, it ceased to be some time ago, but it still lives on in our hearts.
For the uninitiated: welcome. Read and join the rest of us that are "educated stupid."
Amateur documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7lWCqbgQnU
Okay, the photography in that one is just :: chef's kiss :: perfect.