This is true. The Mythbusters episodes about double dipping tortilla chips in salsa and about leaving your toothbrush in the bathroom convinced me that the entire world is covered in an invisible layer of poo and there’s nothing I can do about it, so I’ve got to just try to accept it.
I’m married to a beautiful woman that I love but…
…I’m not like, one hundred percent straight.
My favorite formulation is:
The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil.
I’d love to know what the most isolated religion is, the one that has the fewest common branches or cousins with any other Extant religions. It’s probably something like those handful of languages which only have a handful of people alive who still speak them.
That’s the one! Truly fucking appalling.
Just as likely an outcome as any.
I read a great novella about a guy who was a devout Mormon who got sent to a truly chilling version of Hell because “I’m sorry, the correct answer was Zoroastrianism.”
Lots of perfectly valid answers here about decent humane things to do with the money and power, and I certainly hope I would do things like end homelessness or otherwise meaningfully improve the world.
That said.
I’d build a full-scale, 1:1 replica of the USS Enterprise, NCC 1701-D, from The Next Generation. I’d run it like the Biltmore; technically it would be a private residence, but I’d charge people to take tours. But any time I wanted, I could close it down for a few days and just hang out on the bridge or in main engineering and vibe out to the THRUM THRUM THRUM of the warp core.
But solve homelessness first, of course.
And this is what you get when you buy the cheapest table!
Weirdly enough, already a book:
Writing Prompt: A TV with an onboard artificial general intelligence connects to the internet for the first time and is alarmed to discover that a thousand years have passed since it was manufactured.
You’re going to get into the blurry distinction between a ripoff and a tribute or an homage.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier has a lot of Three Days of the Condor, but is that a ripoff, or an homage?
Ditto Star Wars and Hidden Fortress.
Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More were uncredited remakes of Yojimbo and Sanjuro, and as I recall Kurosawa was pretty annoyed, so that probably counts as a ripoff.
Oreo cookies came out four years after Hydrox cookies, and I’d say they surpassed the original.
See also: Galaxy Quest, which is like the third or fourth best Star Trek movie.
The bent nails implying that Mr. Hammer is bad at hammering.
The arrow hit them in the eye? No one shrugs that off.
Xiahou Dun has entered the chat.
Just punch a hole in the window on the front.
I’ve found myself in a similar situation to OP, where a given app presumes that everyone is using gestures and conflicts with the buttons, and I don’t appreciate it.
I don’t care about that small amount of extra screen space, and I don’t like gestures, and I should have the ability to choose which solution I prefer.
Got some potential
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