Tear out the lawn and re-wild the yard? Wild flowers, clover, etc. Less watering and mowing, and not just bees will love it - all kinds of insects and wildlife from birds to deer.

All those darn African killer bees! Stealing all the jobs!

Yeah, it’s absolutely insane, which is why I remember it lol.

Can be chroma keyed for important buttons, reducing reaction times.

If you go to the Wiki article linked above, you can find the whole story of how multiple vows of fealty have sprung up over the years under the Origins section, but the last bit on Francis Bellamy is the important one as that’s the one used today.

Some useful highlights from that section:

The Bellamy “Pledge of Allegiance” was first published in the September 8, 1892, issue of The Youth’s Companion as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. The event was conceived and promoted by James B. Upham, a marketer for the magazine, as a campaign to instill the idea of American nationalism in students and to encourage children to raise flags above their schools.[28] According to author Margarette S. Miller, this campaign was in line both with Upham’s patriotic vision as well as with his commercial interest.

Francis Bellamy and Upham had lined up the National Education Association to support the Youth’s Companion as a sponsor of the Columbus Day observance and the use in that observance of the American flag. By June 29, 1892, Bellamy and Upham had arranged for Congress and President Benjamin Harrison to announce a proclamation making the public school flag ceremony the center of the Columbus Day celebrations. This arrangement was formalized when Harrison issued Presidential Proclamation 335. Subsequently, the Pledge was first used in public schools on October 12, 1892, during Columbus Day observances organized to coincide with the opening of the World’s Columbian Exposition (the Chicago World’s Fair), Illinois.

James Upham “felt that a flag should be on every schoolhouse,”[27] so his publication "fostered a plan of selling flags to schools through the children themselves at cost, which was so successful that 25,000 schools acquired flags in the first year (1892–93).

That doesn’t look like Texas…

And the worst part is that it was created in cooperation with a flag company partly to hopefully sell more flags.

That’s capitalism for ya.

We’ll need to do a double blind study. At least. The only question is what will we use for the control group. Femboys kissing femboys? Trans girls kissing trans girls? Maybe both? We should be as thorough as possible. Maybe a rigorous oral exam is in order as well.

There’s been enough that “Do you play War Thunder” is a security risk question that the US military asks during job interviews.

And they just keep happening…

I mean, have you seen what we wear in the US? American flags are on basically every house and half of the shirts, hats, and pants.

I’ve been going through the pictures on my phone recently and found the perfect one from COVID:

The cars make it more realistic, anyway.

Check his shirt. He’s clearly a big Blizzard fan.

I love how one of the issues the Imperium has with the Tau is that they keep losing worlds to the Tau because they secede after the dramatic improvement in quality of life vs. life under Imperial rule.

He’s also an illegal immigrant who stayed on an expired visa.

I’m going to get a good grade in therapy today, a desire that is both normal to want and achievable!

I’m in my 30s and still get this kind of advice occasionally when I’m job hunting from my retired parents. My mom still talks about “rising through the ranks” even though I’ve been telling her for a decade that that’s not a thing anymore. Nobody goes from mail room to CEO. And nobody gets a gold watch either.

Ad block software doesn’t work on Twitch anymore because they embed the ads directly into the stream.

Twitch also requires you to do a certain number of ads per hour/amount of ad time per hour in order to hit the partnership levels for decent pay. Otherwise, IIRC, Twitch puts their own ads in and the streamer doesn’t receive any revenue from the ads.

I think Thor over at Pirate Software did a video on it back when that whole “Twitch Adpocalypse” drama was happening.

Yep! Meaning that “Θώθ, what’s this?” is a perfectly valid question to ask the God of knowledge.

Enjoy your curse of eldritch knowledge!