This is a chart of Gen Z’s most favorable brands according to a recent survey conducted by Morning Consult (links to much more in-depth analysis), with approval ratings between 72% and 86%. Apparently Gen Z (born roughly 1997 to 2012) is particularly picky about their brands and more likely to be vocal with dislikes, presumably because of their gross entitlement. When I was a kid toys were dangerous and we loved it!

Gen Z is hard to please and has an average favorability rating of 27 percent, which is lower compared to adults overall (33 percent) and millennials (36 percent).

Gen Z is also more vocal with hate and has, on average, a 10 percent unfavorable impression of a brand, which is higher when compared to adults overall (eight percent) and millennials (nine percent).

Admittedly, it looks like they did get a few things right. Mostly Doritos, Capri Sun, Chips Ahoy!, Coca-Cola, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Playstation, and Lunchables. Maybe there’s still hope for the future yet. Ahahahhahahaha! God, I needed that. Seriously though we’re super doomed.

This is a clip from the French television show C’est mon choix (“It’s my Choice”), featuring a panel of people with unique laughs (complete with photos behind them of what their laugh sounds like). They all start laughing at each other’s laughs, and it’s a hilarious cacophony. If I’d been there I would have undoubtedly added my own unique laugh to the mix, which I’ve been told sounds less like a laugh and more like a grown man crying, presumably because that’s exactly what it is.

These are a couple video of model Bella Hadid having a dress sprayed on her body to close the show for Coperni’s Spring 2023 Collection at New York Fashion Week. Some more info about the spectacle while I can’t help but feel like I got ripped off buying the emperor’s new clothes from an estate sale:

Wearing nothing but nude undergarments, Hadid was circled by two artists that sprayed her body with Fabrican, a “unique spray-on fabric.” From afar, it just looked like Hadid was being sprayed with white paint, but as the artists layered each coat an elastic-like dress began to form on Hadid’s body right on the runway.

When the spray painting was complete, a third artist went to work on the final details. After cleaning up the frayed edges, the straps of Hadid’s dress were modified and pulled down to reveal her shoulders. Once all adjustments were made, Hadid confidently walked the runway and didn’t stop to fix her dress once.

The future, we finally made it! You probably thought it was going to all be flying cars and hoverboards, but instead we got spray-on dresses. “Well, you can’t win them all,” I often think to myself while polishing off one beer and waving down the bartender for another.

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Thanks to my dad, who agrees it’s only a matter of time until changing rooms at clothing stores are replaced with spray-on booths.

This is a visualization imagining you’re a beam of light leaving the sun and traveling out of our solar system at the speed of light. I mean what other speed would you be traveling, you are a beam of light after all. And I mean that too — you’re a real ray of sunshine in my life. Everyone else I know? Just a bunch of turdy storm clouds. The sort of clouds you hope don’t ruin your weekend plans.

This is a video of Captain Picard performing a song and dance on the Enterprise bridge as a tribute to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Apparently the clip was shot as a surprise for Roddenberry back in 1991, and appeared as a bonus scene in the Season 5 DVD set. And now to celebrate Star Trek: The Next Generation’s 35th anniversary, it’s going around the internet again. Dammit, I said get alien strippers!

In loose lips news, this is a video testing the Air Force’s new ‘Quicksink’ missile, capable of splitting even large ships in two and sending them to Davey Jones’s locker in a hurry. Wow! Thank goodness these didn’t exist when I was a pirate! “When were you a pirate?” During the golden age of piracy! “1650 – 1730?” God no, the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Yarrrr, Napster and LimeWire, me matey!