Monday Morning Memes!

Automotif DCXX...

Spotted this whimsical Volkswagen New Beetle ute conversion while dog sitting in New Hampshire recently.

10/10, no notes. I would definitely rock this.

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Meme Dump!

Everybody's Meme-ing for the Weekend!

To all who celebrate...

Happy Beltane!

Hooray, hooray! The first of May!

Outdoor fucking starts today!

(But as usual it do rain
So we fucks off indoors again.)

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Pain at the Pump

Gas in Indianapolis went up another forty cents overnight. Statewide average is now $4.80 a gallon for regular, here in Indy it's $4.99 pretty much everywhere. Monday it was $3.99 a gallon, and that was already higher than it’s been in years, and now it’s gone up another 25%, with more increases incoming. Bobbi filled her tank with the required premium earlier in the week and it set her back over eighty bucks.

Bring this up on social media and you'll hear from your friends in London or Oslo how that's cheap compared to what they're used to, but so what?

First, people structure their budgets and lives around the prices and wages where they live, not halfway around the globe. Second, at this rate people are going to add a GoFundMe to fill their tank in addition to the one they already have for hospital bills. (To which your Euro friend replies "Hospital bills?")

Public transit, health insurance, lengthy suburban commutes, student loan payments, et cetera et cetera... It’s why comparing how many drachmas per dram gas costs between countries is kinda pointless.

Meme Dump!

Automotif DCXIX...

This lovely old 1962 Buick Invicta will get photographed every time it drives by.

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Over the Hump Meme Dump!

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Fast Company

The guy who won the London Marathon not only set a new world record, but he finished in 1:59:30, half a minute under the once-thought-impossible two hour mark.

The second place runner made it under two hours, too, at 1:59:41. It was his first marathon.

In fact, the third place guy finished in 2:00:28, which would have been good enough to set a world record up until precisely fifty-eight seconds earlier.

At this rate we're a less than a decade out from the first elite distance runner getting ticketed in a school zone.

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Tab Clearing...

• Coalition Warfare in Vietnam: Part 2


• Worried that using AI to do your writing will make it look too much like AI wrote it? There's a special AI tool that uses AI to make your AI writing not look like AI! (Or you could, you know, just write it yourself.)


• What if you got hit by a tiny primordial black hole?

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