When you go so "minus Garfield," you invent a new horseshoe theory.

More people need to know about the Pipe Strip.

Even better, he said "I have moral armor."

Your head aches as you reach for your coffee. You flick your mousepad quickly to avoid having the words seared on to your retinas. Roll with disadvantage.

Words brought into English can use English pluralisations, so you're not wrong if you say octopuses. I think Grammar Girl had a take on this maybe 7 or even 8 years ago by now. These days, I can't see myself getting worked up about it for the sheer fun of being pedantic like I used to.

Wise fwom yo gwave.

They wouldn't want to, because it doesn't matter to them. It makes their bogeyman Trump even scarier, and keeps that desperate cash flowing to their campaign coffers so both parties can play off one another while robbing the country, and the global South, blind.

I think you already know the reason is money. Exploiting others isn't demonized, it's celebrated as "innovative" and "clever" and "entrepreneurial spirit." That is the system, held up, and propagandized by, the exploiters. We're taught that violent protest is "uncivil" or "barbaric," because it's the only thing that truly threatens the system, which otherwise holds a monopoly on violence, to prop up that system.

Because people are detached from ethics and humanity as an intended function of capitalism. If people regarded animal welfare every time they needed to eat by being exposed to the slaughter, line might go down. Media is sanitized whatever degree maximizes potential consumer bases, and ultimately profits.

The ability to be disconnected from the internet and still function properly.

It is funny every time and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

"Seriously? I'm being arrested for being gay?" Extremely gay.