FlightyPenguin

Conspiracy theory: Barbra Streisand is actually plotting her own kidnapping, not to sway the election, but to detach her name from the “Barbra Streisand Effect” and send googlers to articles about her plight. Prediction: everybody figures out the truth and it only makes her situation worse, reinforcing her connection to the eponymous effect.

It’s 67° in the photo, so it’s been… 20 years?

I love the Strunk and White style guide that says, “try and ‘try to’”. Very tongue-in-grammatical-cheek.

Even Friedrich Hayek advocated for UBI in The Road to Serfdom.

Same. She wasn’t? Edit: her insta post says the news will come as a shock to zero people, so she’s aware.

Or no longer innocent.

I’d watch a papillon noire.

Probably refers to “balm of Gilead” (a sort of “universal cure” reference), but it’s gonna bring up images of red-robed reproductive slaves and Christo-fascism for most people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balm_of_Gilead

StackAmbulance issue closed as duplicate of 536577. -5 points.

It means that there’s an expected setup, then a twist. Trump’ sons engaged in bribery? Check. It’s easy to believe. The subversion happens when we get to the method of payment. We expected unmarked bills or a fraudulent wire transfer, but we got children’s snacks, which reframes the whole situation as if they’re two kids in a trenchcoat.

If you remember Rudy Giuliani giving a speech at a landscaping company parking lot, you may remember hilarious news titles referencing the Four Seasons. They were particularly Onion-y, because we expected Rudy Giuliani to spew lies at a press conference, which often happens in hotel conference centers. The Four Seasons hotel would be a reasonable place for the whole thing to go down. He probably announced the location, then found out he couldn’t book the hall. Making lies about the election in the Four Seasons Landscaping parking lot across from a sex toy store? Hilarious. It sounds like comedy, but it’s reality.