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Olive Garden should lean into their reputation and unveil a mascot named Vom Deluise.

“No plan survives contact with the enemy.” Dour. Violent. Fatalistic. “No dream survives contact with the waking life.” Mysterious! Gnomic! Ambiguous! Melancholic!

In the end, when in doubt, err on the side of compassion. If you help people and get blowback for it, you still helped people. You don’t do it for a reward, you do it because everyone needs help getting through this circus just like you. Doing good badly beats doing nothing well.

A parody of Kid Rock’s “song” Bawitdaba about the Lord of the Rings character Tom Bombadil.

Aquaman has a commando squad of a half-dozen elite seal assassins he called “Seal Team Six”.

Remember cell phone “night and weekend minutes” where the phone people pretended that electrons should cost something different after 8PM and on Saturday? Yeah. The world has always been messed up in different ways, the internet just lets us all notice the horrors together now.

Not enough people remember Mott the Hoople so there’s no point in calling someone all in black “Goth the Mope-ell.” It’s a shame but this is how time works.

“Elon Musk” is an anagram for “Me Sulk On”.