but not WHY. (Other than thinning out voters)

congratulations, you actually do understand why

elections in the US are run by the states, not the federal government. a handful of states (specifically California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington) automatically register eligible voters and send a mail ballot to every registered voter

scrotifera literally means “nutsack havers”

edit: I suppose that’s just a paraphrase of the title, isn’t it

so that air can flow in and out of different sides of the same window, instead of having to have two windows, one with air flowing in and the other with air flowing out

if you examine something and it’s not the way you want it to be, congratulations, you have successfully identified a problem

It was hot when I first bit it, hot as a glede, and my mouth was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it. Yet even as I write it is cooled, and it seemeth to shrink, though it loseth neither its beauty nor its shape… But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of ranching the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain.

this is Lombard Street in San Francisco

you think anyone’s ever broken the 25mph speed limit on that section of street?

they’re gonna have to hide his grave to keep people from forming a queue to piss on it

it’s literally the lyrics of tubthumping

I’d probably start by asking why he’s kneeling straddling my chest like a sleep paralysis demon

“pray I do not alter it further”

I was just thinking yesterday, why isn’t there a “never store credit card info” option

so they didn’t show up to class for 11 weeks?

“this is our top priority”

“so what exactly are you going to do about it?”

“we don’t know”

you raise a good point; perhaps we should name it after him, call it Trump’s Bowel, to reflect the amount of control he has over it

I don’t know a specific word, but I always think of it as “closing the umbrella because you’re not getting wet”

wanna hear a joke? what does je ne sais quoi mean?

“I don’t know, what?”

thanks.

the secretary of transportation, a former contestant on MTV reality show The Real World, thinks more cars will reduce congestion

there’s Cell (2016) starring Nic Cage and Samuel L Jackson, based on a Stephen King book, where people turn into zombies after hearing a signal secretly embedded into cell phone networks

the other reply didn’t exist yet when I started writing mine. sorry that I took longer because I tried to provide more detail about the thing you seemed interested in