The leg sweep will never not be: A. an incredibly effective tactic against humans in general and B. fucking hilarious from an outside perspective, like oh you wanna fight? How about you do that from the fucking ground.
That was Edison and Tesla, Franklin was long dead by then. Also it was pretty one sided, Tesla wasn’t the one doing stage shows out of killing circus elephants.
I saw really shitty clay pots in a T-shirt stand today advertised as “bring your friends a little pot from Colorado” and my first thought was that somebody should do that same joke but not shitty so it’s still a worthwhile gift, if still a joke. Fast forward a few hours to now, where somebody has demonstrated that building a tiny piece of decent pottery is possible.
I’ve seen people explain that particular, shall we say, use of punctuation, on Reddit, but I never saw anybody earnestly do it. I think you’ve got to drop at least one level lower on the cultural tactfulness to get there.
We’ve got the culture and to put it simply a place to go to. The barrier for new entry is just that we are all, put simply, nerds with our communities focused around that. The fediverse’s main problem overall is honestly just that the majority of the population are corporatists whether they know it or not.
Only time I ever saw a brick as a kid was when one came through the window of the trailer, had a note on it that read ‘cut yo grass’. That’s how they do it in the mobile homeowners association. Credit to a comedian by the name of Dusty Slay since that isn’t my joke.