One of those pointers doesn’t even go anywhere.

The orange-ish “Cote d’Ivory”-matching one points somewhere in a different color.

Ok I don’t know where this is from but I want to start singing it out of context just to keep the mystery going.

Never noticed before that three members of the alien dog species were hopefully holding hands.

Amazing!

When everywhere you go it smells like shit, check your shoes.

Way to prove you were an asshole literally the entire time.

At first the douchebag tried to play it off like they were doing a good thing by trying to make the fediverse easier to navigate for newcomers.

…by DDOSing an instance? Sure, Jan. What a little coward.

Oh, PREVENT cancer, right?

It took me a long time to realize what they meant.

I really like that “TURD” on the top line is smaller. So they clarified?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that McDonald’s logo with the line through it, like a silhouette of the building! Looks like it was used until 1968.

Really puts the current “Golden Arches” into perspective. No pun intended.

The actual Longaberger company died some time ago. It was originally a multi-level marketing company, which I didn’t realize.

The company ceased operations in 2018, two years after moving their remaining employees to the factory instead of the big basket.

A company bought the intellectual property rights to the Longaberger name and relaunched in 2019, but it focuses on a much wider variety of things.

I thought this was literally the strategy? DRM for the first few months until sales slow down.

Then they remove the DRM in the hopes of getting another sales boost.

Removing the DRM is essentially free advertising.

directed by Uwe Boll

All you need to say really

Reminds me of this amazing Celtic helmet I saw on Reddit several years ago.

Celtic helmet with a complete winged-bird crest from the 3rd century BCE, found at Ciumesti, Romania.

The wings flap.

Original Reddit link for posterity: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/s/cEhL5lbmEv

There’s two methods. All credit goes to her so if she eventually sees this, your temporary fruit fly expertise lives on! lol

She mentioned that at the time most fly labs literally just used method 1. We personally always just used method 2 because it’s not that hard and it was extremely effective (she calls it the “nuke them from orbit” method in the old instructions email).

Method 1. You get a shallow dish/cup, or a bowl with steep walls, and put alcohol in it. Sweet liqueur works well or you can put a bit of sugar in the alcohol to make it sweeter. The fly is tempted by the thing that smells like food and they drown.

Method 2. You need narrow bottle or container that will stand up, tape, a sheet of paper, a pen or pencil, and a lure to put in the bottom to attract them. I remember the alcohol working, as above, or you can use fruit; they obviously love bananas. If you have yeast, sprinkle some on top of the fruit, because fruit flies love yeast too.

Fold the paper in half and roll it into a cone so it’s totally closed on one end. Tape it into that shape, and then use your pen/pencil tip to open the end a bit, just big enough to fit a fruit fly.

Put the lure in the bottom, and point the cone narrow-side down into the bottle. Seal the cone on well, and put it where the flies like to congregate. They’ll be attracted to the lure, but it’s nearly impossible for them to escape the little hole in the cone that protrudes into the bottle.

After a few days, fold the paper up to block the hole, or tape it or whatever, and put it in the freezer overnight. Then you can just throw the bastards away all at once!

I was thinking “DO NOT TOUCH: working caterpillar”

I had kind of a similar conversation with someone I was dating who was working with fruit flies (drosophila melanogaster)!

She knew how to make really effective fruit fly traps for that reason.

Edited to add: I replied with the methods below.

It’s exactly the kind of shit Bob Dylan should be bitching about in his songs. WTF, Bob Dylan?

The funny thing about this is, Bob Dylan is so famously bad live, he should write songs about ripping off his own fans.

I saw him in the late 1990s, my fourth or fifth concert out of now hundreds, and it remains the worst concert I’ve ever seen. You can find entire threads about how bad he is live any time you search!

It’s honestly impressive that he’s still finding people to fool into buying tickets, and he’s never been hit with a class action lawsuit.

I’ll add my favorite quote from that thread: “I’ve seen him like 5 times and 3 of them are some of the worst shows I’ve ever seen.”

Wait though! It may have had some of the same ingredients though, including belladonna!

There’s a Facebook post I found from nearly ten years ago that lists a few things.

• up to 15% alcohol
• sodium salicylate, which is what aspirin is derived from (hence the name)
• Cascara (laxative herb)
• a small amount of mydriatic alkaloids, probably from belladonna
• Menthol

I was under the impression that this describes the fake one, since this is report of a “misbranding” of Aspironal.

They can’t do that! They’d never convince the Associates

They started embedding them into the back windows of cars in the mid-1990s! It’s usually kind of a zig-zag toward the top.

There are a few similar interpretations!

tl;dr: aliens (with an old standard radio antenna!) broke down or abandoned their vehicle on the side of the road… and they either got a ticket/notice or they are coming back to get their vehicle later.

First, maybe a dumb cop saw they were parked in a breakdown lane, wanted to ticket them, but they didn’t have windshield wipers. Antenna it is! On to the next “car.”

Second possibility: in the U.S. when someone breaks down on the side of the road and has to leave their car, for some reason it used to be (and still occasionally is) the custom to put something on it to indicate “I’m coming back!” Sometimes I’ve seen a cloth hanging out the window or something.

Similarly, police or road maintenance will tag seemingly-abandoned cars in the U.S. with stickers nowadays, so a policeman may have been marking an abandoned “car” as well, mixing the two scenarios.

Just to confirm, I also double-checked the Disqus comments before commenting here, because older people tend to use it. And the scenarios above are the most commonly mentioned!