Buy 3, get 3 free. On 12 packs of soda. So it’s a “12 pack” but really it’s a 72 pack if you want the price to make sense.

Name brand potato chips. Doritos over $5 a bag is insane. They were 2 for 5 just a few years ago.

Trix commercials. I get to steal food from that rabbit all day with zero consequences.

Overall popularity of Spider-Man (and related properties), Tom Holland, and the 3rd movie in this franchise was the highest grossing film of 2021. Good reviews generally a sign that people will show up for the sequel.

There’s a Spider-Mobile. It was in the Spider-Verse movie in the underground garage with all the extra costumes and stuff. It’s been in the comics plenty.

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Why any of these? I am confused. Seems like anyone living in a gym and being paid money would lose weight. They all sound pretty stupid.

I see workaholism as basically identical to emotional unavailability

Pretty sure workaholics don’t see it that way. And that seems like a fairly inevitable conflict point if you’re dating someone who works a lot. Your opinion seems clear, you don’t want to date a workaholic.

Myself, I would probably have some of the same problems you have. Not sure if I’d want to be with someone who is routinely unavailable. But there it’s a trade off, people need a job, I’m sure I’d tolerate it to a point. Not sure where that breaking point would be specifically. I’ve noticed people who are workaholics usually have a work hard phase then a play hard phase, where they spend a bunch of money and own a bunch of random toys. Even though they’re usually only available like 3 days a month to use them. I’m not as much of a ‘big splurge purchase’ kind of person. So not sure that personality type would do well with me.

1. Term limits are for Presidents but not Vice Presidents. Theoretically, you could abolish the office of the President, rule as the unlimited term VP forever. Also casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate too.

2. If all 3 branches of government were in agreement, Congress could declare a king and void the constitution.

3. A compromised Supreme Court, with lifetime appointments, could go rogue. Legislating from the bench. Installing themselves, not the President, as the top of the government.

4. Slavery is legal, ‘as punishment for a crime.’ Door remains cracked open for abuse.

Yes, it’s a sex trafficking law. Many of the most prominent examples, especially the older ones, were junk. They arrested the world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson because he had a white girlfriend. For ‘sex trafficking’ her.

Originally the ‘white slavery’ act (prostitution aka ‘white slavery’ was a common term around the late 18th-early 19th-century). Anyone accused of violating this bill was basically being accused of being a pimp.

Comedian Lenny Bruce was repeatedly arrested and prosecuted for “obscenity” for using swear words in his comedy act. All things that would be considered fairly tame and normal comedy today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce#Obscenity_arrests

Pretty much anyone who was prosecuted using the Mann Act. Which was used to attack foreigners and undesirable minorities. Generally labeled them having girlfriends as “sex trafficking”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act#Notable_prosecutions_under_the_Mann_Act

Chaplin met Joan Barry, age 24, in 1941. He signed her to a $75-a-week contract for a film he was putting together, and she became his mistress. By mid-1942, Chaplin let her contract expire. To send her home, Chaplin paid her train fare to New York which led to his arrest.[23][25] Chaplin was acquitted of the charges.

Paid for your mistress to go home? Sex trafficking!

No, bb forums were like one singular sub/instance with lots of dedicated people and like 3 ‘off topic’ sections for the fans of that subject to talk about nothing.

There are significantly fewer bugs on monoculture lawns. Never been clear if that’s from all the poison, or if it’s from the lack of plant diversity.

Alright. No one really asked for it, but I want to watch it. Tintin is the sorta inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Stardew Valley, GTA5, Cities Skylines. All games that you can basically buy once and be done. I can put them down, come back in 2-4 months, and pick up right where I left off.

Also here’s Half Life 2 in a browser: https://hl2.slqnt.dev/

My complaint: I don’t want to pay every month

Your solution: Play for only 1 month

Problem not solved. I’d much rather buy a game where I get to play as long as I want.

If you’re a daily player, sure. But I’m the kind of person who can play every day for maybe a week, but then I’ll take a month or four off before I pick it up again. The monthly billing system does not align with how I like to play games.

Yes, also World of Warcraft, anything like that with a subscription. PS+/Xbox Game Pass was the death blow for console gaming for me. I want to buy the game, play the game. Not be paying each month.

Printers are a loss leader for selling ink cartridges. I have done my recent printing at Walgreens. It’s about 25 cents per page and I don’t need it very often.

Video games. I stopped buying games because they started requiring a monthly subscription to play.

A signature within the panel that can’t be cropped out is pretty standard. Just signing your name. Look at https://lemmy.world/c/garfield for example. Like sometimes he has signature in the 1st panel, date in the final panel.