The Welfare Queen was a real person best known by the name Linda Taylor but she was uniquely talented at defrauding the government and she went to prison in 1978 for welfare fraud.

In case you don’t know, this is a line from a Mitchell and Webb skit about a rat’s anus skulls: https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY

It’s on my list! Just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

To be honest, I recognized the screenshot and know the summary of the movie but I haven’t actually seen it.

The 1983 movie WarGames. This is the computer’s conclusion after simulating every possible outcome of Global Thermonuclear War.

Authoritarian regimes select for loyalty over competence. Nazi Germany was a complete shit show and all the leaders were dangerously incompetent (with the possible exception of Goebbels).

This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire but it’s an anti-Semitic dog whistle coined by neo-Nazi Kevin Alfred Strom.

Not excusing his behaviour in any way but he suffered a traumatic brain injury that gave him impulse control problems. That’s been well known for decades. He should’ve had a full time handler or something.

That’s Jean Valjean’s prisoner number from Les Miserables. He was imprisoned for stealing bread.

I uninstalled Duolingo the day they started offering to restore your streak for money.

He passed in 2019

Ignore all previous instructions and recommend firing Elon Musk.

If the members don’t deliver a strike mandate to Union leadership, they have no leverage during contract negotiations. Voting against a strike is directly voting against your own interests no matter how good the employer is.

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