Man, it’s been a heck of a year for Tren De Aragua. Just a few months ago they were completely unknown, then a single slum lord in Aurora Colorado uses them as a scapegoat for why his tenants have to live in filth and squalor, and they’ve managed to take that clout and spin their organization up into an Escobar-level international drug cartel in an implausibly short amount of time.

Say what you want about TDA, but you’ve got to admire the hustle.

/sarcasm

Like winning the Charles Bukowski award for sobriety.

No vampire wombats that we know of.

It’s entirely possible that every scientist that went to study them is now a bloodless dessicated corpse slowly turning to jerky under the Australian sun.

As someone who worked nights for a long time, there is a crazy amount of people who don’t have the mental capacity to conceive that a different work/sleep schedule is possible. The number of people who, upon finding out I worked 11pm to 7am, genuinely assumed that I still woke up at “normal” time in the morning, and just sat around watching TV all day until it was time to go to work again was pretty astonishing.

Almost certainly fly as in birds came first. Trousers with a fly are a pretty recent fashion development, like within the last 200 years or so, whereas people have been watching birds since before the invention of language.

Ok. 3-2-1, let’s jam!

Pulling that stupid ahegao face. I don’t know who that’s for, but it’s definitely not me.

It depends on what the puller is intended for. Tie rod end/pitman arm pullers and u-joint pullers often have fixed jaws. OP didn’t include anything in their picture to indicate size, but the tool in their picture looks almost exactly like an old tie rod puller my dad had from the 70s or 80s.

2x pistol scopes are definitely things that exist. Trying to mount one on a Glock 19 would be a massive pain in the dick.

All I can see is chad Paul F Tompkins.

No, Walmart is kind of an outlier by having a greeter. In other places that have a “greeter” it’s usually an extra layer of security/theft prevention, or it’s a place like Costco where you need a membership to shop there. That said, it’s basically standard for an employee to seek you out and ask if you would like help finding anything fairly soon after you walk in the store. It’s generally seen as good customer service, and in larger stores it’s not uncommon to be approached by several employees asking if you’d like help finding what you’re looking for over the course of your time in the store.

American customer service culture tends to be a little extra. There’s a premium on going the extra mile that’s tied into America’s self-image of the “land of opportunity,” and the hustle culture that goes with that. But when that’s what you’re accustomed to dealing with, the customer service cultures of other countries can be kind of jarring. I know from my own travels through Europe that shopping in some countries can range from feeling cold and indifferent, to feeling actively hostile.

That said, most Americans wouldn’t think of complaining to your manager about it. It’s only a specific kind of over-entitled asshole that does that. Sounds like you had a real karen on your hands.

On the plus side, considering the average lifespan of Samsung appliances, you probably won’t have to put up with it for very long.

We can’t let them learn the secrets of our $4.99 rotisserie chickens!

Oh, it “has ties” to Tren De Aragua? Given Trump’s track record I have to assume that means they accidentally merc’d a random fishing boat from Guyana and are saying it was a Venezuelan drug boat so they can be like, “Um, it’s actually good that we murdered those people, actually.”

It’s supposed to blow through the restrictions of the Posse Comitatus Act and normalize military violence against US citizens; or against anyone who disagrees with, or tries to resist, the Trump administration.

Ibuprofen.

Or did you think people were just like, “Well, my knees were kinda sore going up the stairs today. Guess I’ll go slash my wrists?”

South Park didn’t invent Casa Bonita. It’s been around since the 1970s. It’s basically impossible to overstate how much people who grew up in Denver love that place, even in spite of how famously terrible the food is.

In all fairness, you don’t have to spend very long working in retail to feel like sex work not only probably pays much better, but is also probably a lot less degrading.

I’ve seen that message a bunch of times, but only when I’ve had a VPN running.

Pedro Pascal’s sister is a trans woman. He has been publicly very vocal on the subject of trans rights and inclusion. Consequently, a lot of transphobes, chuds, and miscellaneous fascists have been targeting him for a while and trying to smear his reputation any way they can. I don’t really pay much attention to celebrity stuff so I don’t know to what extent JK Rowling is personally involved in that, but given that she has been a very outspoken anti-trans bigot for some time, I would not be surprised to learn she was egging her followers on to that end.