Harold and Maude always cracks me up, but definitely not for everyone.

Some OJ got in the wine for Naked Gun, so it's more like prison wine.

JIT inventory practices? Sales pressure?

If a woodchuck could chuck wood, a woodchuck would chuck what a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

If you enjoy it, diluted pickle brine. Probably not a good source long term since there's a limited amount with any given jar, but if you already have it...

That's some nice cable management except for that orange mess on the left.

You'll be truly amazed at times, how an angry person can change a tune when you go the opposite direction of what they expect, than just adding fuel to the fire and making them the fault of everything.

That seems like a good way to encourage that person to escalate and repeat that behavior. I've had a sister that used to be in an abusive marriage. Appeasement to an entitled angry jerk was not the solution, did not prevent him from putting her head through drywall, did not make anybody happier.

Anger is an emotion of action and can be useful against things like injustice, but it sounds like you're talking about people that don't do anything to better their situation until it's too late and now it's everybody else's fault. Your example, anger about your coworkers being jerks, has many levels between asking them to stop (5% angry) and making them regret falling asleep during the HR managed active shooter training (100%). You're allowed to be angry. You're allowed to take action because of it. You're not allowed to take it out on others. You're not allowed to engage in anti social behaviors.

X-Men style sentinels?

Huh, so it is. I'd been thinking of using the idea for a Champions campaign for how an Iron Man knock off got his money.

Villain idea: guy who shorts stocks of insurance companies before destroying things they insure.

I don't think this is a useful comparison and I think it's a dishonest to present it this way.

You're trying to show that smartphones cause pedestrian deaths. This leaves out some very important info like figuring out if traffic accidents per mile driven have increased, if there are more pedestrians, the rates of death per accident and which kinds of vehicles are most associated with these deaths vs what people walk (or limp) away from.

From one of your sources, let's look at what that red line looks like in a different scale. You've stretched that way out. Looks like the overall trend for non pedestrian deaths is going down over the long run. So pedestrian deaths are increasing while non pedestrian deaths are decreasing. No wait, this graph shows a huge increase in non pedestrian deaths!

I've encountered this as: the elephant and the rider. The rider knows where they're going and can attempt to guide to elephant. The elephant can do the traversal. If the rider has no direction, the elephant will just wander. If the elephant doesn't want to do something, there's not much the rider can do. Take care of your elephant so you can be on the same page, but know that you cannot reason with or force it.

I've unfortunately seen this metaphor weaponized for workplace management where employees are viewed as dumb beasts that need the ankusha.