me wearing my new Nike™ Combustibles™®©

he needs to make money off of it so he can fund future research! don’t question why our global economic model relies on made up numbers being met before actual life saving work is done! or why the numbers need to be in the hands of a dozen guys in the first place

this is what the company behind this says it’s useful for:

first two sound pretty reasonable to me, as someone with a very basic understanding of wildfire control.
snow and ice removal, i mean it’s definitely gonna do that but i can’t think of any place where it would be necessary to use a robot dog for it.
the last one’s self explanatory.

i’d love to be optimistic and say that this robot will only get used for harmless or good deeds but i know this thing is already being retrofitted by cops to shoot tear gas or some bullshit

i should clarify i am not the person in the screenshot lmao

99% of the [thing]_official accounts on tumblr aren’t real, they’re just people pretending to be official accounts at varying levels of commitment.
the post popular one is probably osha-official who committed so hard they got a misdemeanor for impersonating a US Governmental service

as far as i’m aware it’s just a copypasta, knowyourmeme explains it pretty well

mansplaining, noun:

Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning “(for a man) to comment on or explain something, to a woman, in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner”

that’s like half of lemmy!

considering the political skew on lemmy i think this is more an admonition of capitalism than of science

real life phineas or ferb, incredible

dunno what was drawn last time but i say we make Xenia

i feel like barbarians wouldn’t ask

how little was he that he could hammer nails into wood?

oh so that’s who’s in Paris

I would
(slang, idiomatic) Used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.

this behavior is shown in the 2012 documentary judge dredd

by the judge beating the shit out of you

Internet Comment Etiquette With Erik is the one that pops to mind. he usually makes sponsor segments into skits or small stories

Chucky McParticleface

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