Unless you have another, separate word for the color that you don’t have for the fruit, I’m not certain the relevance.

The eggplant looks like an egg when it’s growing. It’s such a wonderfully descriptive word that came to English first. Aubergine is a French many-times-borrowed word from Arabic. Very pretty word, but not super great identifier for the fruit. Thus it is just the name for the color (in my mind and in North America)

Bean counters

In America, we give medals for that kind of gumption, not punish it

/j (but only by the barest amount)

TenForward would love this

Americans use calorie for the SI kcal. Allergic to metric prefixes.

Minnesota interesting. It does pique one’s interest.

Sorry, eggplant is a better name for them. Aubergine is just a color.

… the lightning struck. If you’re looking for some greater pattern there… flappy bird is from a different time. Anything you could’ve learned from it is no longer relevant.

Not the Dunning-Kruger. That’s a reversed uncanny valley graph given names to match.

This is the actual Dunning-Kruger graph:

All of the democratic socialist countries would like a word. Unfortunately, the CIA already killed them all.

Edit: To clarify, capitalism + democracy goes out of its way to fuck any other burgeoning system from getting its legs. So, I don’t think it’s fair to state “it’s the least worst”.

Hit me baby in the eyes!

Bolsheviks-turned-mafia

Explain

Cowards, honestly

Gotta make the property seem valuable before you sell it

The time is actually 7:18 and they refuse to bow to give up summer time.

Edit: remembered how summer time works

Yandere Simulator Dev. Spaghetti code throughout

As an atheist, kindly shut up. Religion isn’t uniquely evil or anything. It’s like any other human institution, which means it’s susceptible to corruption and control.

When you talk about it like this, you’re not helping to deprogram anyone. You just look like a high and mighty ass.

This

Nope. Brownshirts are fucks. No good press for fascists

I mean, yes. But also pregnancy entails risk, so people opt out if there’s no way to pull the plug if something goes catastrophically wrong.