They’re going to elect an authoritarian as president, surely that will bring down prices!

Economists also said that Trump would tank the economy. Americans sleep.

Not even just “sleeping”, Wallstreet is celebrating his win!

Same reason why neighbors don’t like hearing their neighbor’s loud music at 2am.

Sure I get it, making noise tends to be fun when you’re the noisemaker - personally I like loud music and I’m not the kind of person who goes to sleep early. But it’s the same as with anything else, you need to be considerate of other people.

Your neighbors, if they had a say.

But Harleys are already really fucking loud. Legal road vehicles without specialized function shouldn’t be that loud IMO.

Merkel-Raute intensifies

Does this count as actual fascism yet?

rare non-horny Extra Fabulous comic

“Many of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I’m willing to make!”

Agreed, though I think that he doesn’t quite fit the definition of “celebrity” considering he did two terms as a state governor.

No numbers for “A celebrity’s position on a politicial issue has positively affected my opinion of him/her”?

And IMO, considering all the other groups that are trying to sway voters and how close elections tend to be (and how polarized politics are in the US), these numbers aren’t that bad. And the way advertising/propaganda works, they don’t necessarily have to sway people in a way that the people directly notice - it’s often enough to keep repeating a point to keep it in people’s consciousness.

It would still be quite the sensation if we found Manatees in Scotland!

Kind of iffy to post this outside of that context, IMO. Maybe some of the other works from this author are more obvious, but it’s really hard to recognize this one as satire if you don’t already know it.

Gotta switch it up sometimes.

It’s not that they " can sort of smell drugs", they are extremely sensitive to any trace smell of drug. Your linked article confirms that:

Dog-handling officers and trainers argue the canine teams’ accuracy shouldn’t be measured in the number of alerts that turn up drugs. They said the scent of drugs or paraphernalia can linger in a car after drugs are used or sold, and the dogs’ noses are so sensitive they can pick up residue from drugs that can no longer be found in a car.

Search so thoroughly that you would even find the tiniest crumbs left on someone’s shoe sole and that 44% “success” rate would probaby jump up considerably.

Though the false positives that are mentioned in the article are also an issue, but probably less so if you’re regularly doing the rounds at airport waiting queues.

I’d assume they’re just doing the rounds with drug sniffer dogs. Those dogs have crazy sensitivity.

If you’re traveling somewhere with extremely restrictive drug laws (e.g. Singapore), you can be sentenced to prison for drug particles on your shoes. i.e. you can accidentally have forbidden substances on you.

Neat, maybe they’ll extend it to other groups in the future once the infrastructure exists - many illnesses aren’t “terminal” but untreatable and extremely limiting and/or painful.

That’s interesting, what did the original use instead of kobolds?