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Neurons firing. I recognise one of those blobs as being oddly similar to the real-world administrative area where I grew up, not that I learned the actual shape of it until a few years ago. The blobs around it don’t match though.

I remember making one of those.

It had a faux URL bar at the top of both the left and right frame and used a little JavaScript to turn each side into its own functioning browser window. This was long before browser tabs were a mainstream thing. At the time, relatively small 4:3 or 5:4 ratio monitors were the norm, and I couldn’t bear the skinny page rendering at each side, so I gave it up as a failed experiment.

And yes I did open it inside itself. The loaded pages were even more ridiculously skinny.

Why did you cross out a word and then write a synonym right afterwards? I’d put an /s here, but well…

When politicians talk about “the country”, whatever country they happen to be in charge of, they almost always mean the parts of the country that they think are important to the total exclusion of everything else. Or what they’ve been bribed to think of as important. Either way, that usually means “the rich, the important, and their agendas”.

Likewise “the economy” is “the rich people’s yacht fund”.

(This latter one I stole from a viral tweet.)

This has already been a thing, but with one important twist: When sugar was first imported to Europe, only rich people could afford it, and as such, their teeth went rotten far more quickly than those of poor people.

Having black or rotten teeth was a status symbol for quite a while.