when i was a kid, i got food poisoning or something at Great America (an amusement park), and projectile vomited corn dogs all over the parking lot.

(this is not the sickest i’ve been, but i do feel it’s probably the most entertaining story.)

probably unrelated. vulture bees are from south america.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee

sure, why not?

there were estimated to be about 100 million people in the us in 2020 (the most recent numbers i could find, but it’s certainly higher now), that were not eligible to vote despite being bound by the countries laws. if you’re gonna tax people, and pass laws impacting them, they should at the bare minimum get a say in who gets to be the representatives making those decisions.

do you mean naturists?

naturalists: people who study plants and animals and such.

naturists: people who advocate being naked in public, usually for ethical, philosophical, or health reasons

aren’t they though?

yep!

i don’t think this is it, but many years ago i would lace my sneaks from the top to the bottom, so the bow would be down near the toes. i thought it was cute. it was definitely weird and inconvenient, but not reprehensible.

where do you think names come from?

could you explain the joke? i don’t think i get it.

this seems, idk, needlessly mean? like, it’s clearly trying to portray this programmer as bad, but for what? wanting to get a job? trying to improve their skills?

i feel like this is probably meant to be funny, but it just seems mean and sad.

“but then things would be different from when i was a child and that makes me scared and angry.”

well, they did ask though, and i thought it’d be fun.

other commenters have covered the first two parts of your question quite well already. old books written in the 1900s are books that were written between 1900 and 1999. back then, books mostly got printed on paper, which is kinda like a screen, except it only shows one thing, ever, so you need lots of these “papers” to show a whole book. these papers would all be attached together using string and/or glue. books covered a wide variety of topics. they could be educational or describe made up stories. they could be small enough to fit in a pocket, or so big you need two hands to carry them. notable trends in books during the 1900s included the flourishing of science fiction, a kind of made up story where scientific or technological advancements play a prominent role, buoyed by technological progress and optimism about the future in the first half of the 20th century. the 1900s also saw a great deal of attention put to comic books, which, unlike more traditional books, tell stories using small pictures with text to show dialogue, rather than just text. comic books were well known for their depiction of heroic characters with unusual abilities such as Wonder Woman, or Spider-Man.

of course he’s an impersonator. Jim Carrey has long been famous as a skilled impressionist.

eh, i figure we’ll all pay for it some day, when an overzealous capitalist AI harvests the poor for raw material.