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This must be a troll post in a vein similar to Ken M, or a false flag account. The setup seems too crafted to be a joke. Antivaxxers are wrong, but they can't be THAT stupid.
And that's the reality that I'm deciding to live in.

I swear that was about to summon something

How selfless of America, to take care of all those guns so other countries don't have to!

I could maybe think up a better one if I spent a long time trying to recall everything I know, but off the top of my head my first thought goes to Ending E of Nier: Automata.

There's also the camelopard. Long ago, people who had seen a giraffe described it to people who hadn't as a cross between a camel and a leopard and, well, the idea of what a camelopard looks like is a bit more fantastical than what giraffes actually look like. Makes for some interesting art, though.

I get the reference.

At least for a programming, "salary of an intern" isn't another way of saying "free". Sad that it is for internships in many other fields, though.

You like computers? Thank Charles Babbage.
You like programming and computational theory? Thank Alan Turing.

You can't say that more women than men go to college because women have a larger share of the student loan debt. There's lurking variables, like how quickly women vs men pay off their debts, which itself is impacted by things like how quickly women vs men are hired out of college. There's more variables, too, these are just two examples.

I'd think that possibly the amount of people with depression and the severity of depression has been pretty constant over time, and the increased acceptance and support of people with depression has made it easier to talk about it in modern times, skewing the results as self-reporting is the only way to get statistics on depression, but I haven't looked at their studies or researched data collection methods for statistics on depression or checked to see if this thought has been already addressed or done any of that, so this is just me postulating without facts...

Are people conveniently forgetting the distinction the WHO made between gaming disorder and gamers for the sake of jokes, or do people genuinely think the WHO said playing video games is a mental disorder? Genuinely wondering, because it's sometimes hard to tell the tone of text and memes.

Now I wish more than ever that I had a local IKEA... (assuming I'd get the same deal)

This was my English teacher for my senior year of highschool. Some particular students were very good at getting him monologuing, and they'd team up to do it in revenge for some of the things they didn't like about his teaching style or their grades. The conversations usually turned to whether or not he'd have sex with a certain character in the book we were analyzing. (It was senior year English, every book had something to do with societal opinions on violence, money, and extramerital sex)

That rock formation looks like South America...

Anyone know if this was completely autonomously generated by a bot, or if it was more of a human-robot collaboration like botnik's stuff (the guys behind the Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like A Pile of Ash thing)?

Even if your location is off, if you're using a web browser and are connected to a wifi network, the network's IP address can still be used by websites to get your location (or at least the location of the network, which is going to be pretty much within a street's width of your location)

We've got turkey gangs in my neighborhood. They roam in packs and own the streets, and they know it, too. You can honk all you want, they'll just surround your car and make you late. I'm pretty sure they're involved in shady politics behind the scenes, too, as the city council gets really upset if you kill one.

It was a stunt to show how you can bias your data to create your narrative. They specifically used a subreddit about death, then wrote an article with a headline about how using reddit as a source made a psychopathic AI. The point was that the headline is technically true but highly misleading because the data was biased, and the article itself focuses on that bias, but in a case of doing too good a job looking like the thing it is fighting, most people have just judged it from the sensational headline and decided "what is the world coming to?"
https://www[dot]theverge[dot]com/2018/6/7/17437454/mit-ai-psychopathic-reddit-data-algorithmic-bias

...I always assumed that it was just a normal squid that got magic'd to giant size and they just decided to keep it that way because it was cooler.

My mom refused to let me have a GPS in my car to force me to learn how to use a map. Instead I just learned to leave early enough to account for getting lost. Maps are great for walking, but when I need to have my eyes on the road and my hands on the wheel and am moving at car speeds, a map is pretty tough to effectively use without another person as the navigator.

I mean, to be fair, many of those "kill"s are part of "don't kill"s. You're going to have to meet her negating phrase with another negating phrase to come closer to a fair comparison.
But ultimately, the amount of times a word or phrase is written is going to depend on which version of the Bible you're using, so it's pretty poor reasoning to use that as a measure in the first place. Nice thought, though. Way to try and find positive meanings everywhere.

What about Time Cubers?

This was pretty much my reality (if we're assuming that the dad was just on the phone for a few seconds when the photographer took the picture.) I had time for books and read them everywhere. Dad's work required him to stay connected pretty much 24/7 so he'd frequently be on his phone. (Just quick checks and then back to family interaction, though.)

Women were more special cases. Men were by far the majority and the default.
...Which is why a woman on the battlefield, being a more remarkable sight than a man, makes for a great main character to tell epic stories about, because they're probably only there if they're already legendarily awesome.

unfortunately his kryptonite is felt-tip pens

I was expecting them to continue spiraling upwards in a growing column of fish, becoming an ever-larger ichthyological tornado of doom that destroys a nearby town and threatens the world.

I've had it happen where we just change over time. One friend had radically different social views than me but it was all cool and we were still able to be good friends. Then she started getting militant about it and doing things to force with-me-or-against-me lines. My tolerance allows me to be friends with people who have different beliefs, but not ones who will force me to adopt theirs as mine.

The brain is lazy and efficient. It doesn't process each individual thing it sees. Basically, it looks at a chunk and goes "hey, this looks familiar, let me go grab the results from the last time I saw this instead of re-processing it again." The "the"s are so close together that the brain basically goes "already handled that, no need to think about it again" and moves on. It's similar to how the brain is able to read words that are misspelled so long as all the letters are there and the first and last letter are correct.

It's an exposure thing. Every student is potentially the next genius revolutionary mathematician. Sometimes you don't know you like something or are good at it until you try it. You don't want the next calculus to never be invented because the person who would've done it didn't know that math theory was a field. All the rest of us who never use it are just casualties in the quest to ensure that no one misses their chance through lack of exposure and experience.
(Doesn't make it any less frustrating when you end up not being the savior of the math universe and want to do something that just needs normal math, though...)

Might as well let them explain it. With how accurate movie adaptations are, it's bound to be a story you've never heard before.

Well, He would listen.

I taught a summer camp a few years ago and I was still using a slide-out keyboard dumbphone and at one point I had to take it out and call the camp supervisor and when I was done this kid asked what it was and I explained that it was a phone. Most of the class laughed, but these two girls made these horrified gasps as if the mere presence of old technology would corrupt the very matter in the air and if they went to pull their phones out of their pockets they would've been transformed into old phones like mine.

In a way, this has been the case for a long time. I worked on a project that involved reading a lot of 1800s newspapers and all that stuff is in there. A guy was jailed for sending a card to a business owner insulting him by comparing him to a bedbug. A man was sued for mistaking a woman for a man. Newspapers routinely had little blurb articles that weren't news at all but "yo mamma" level insults against rival papers and political candidates.
The difference between now and then is that mass communication makes it so it no longer has to be personal. Offended people can try to recruit as many people as they can to also be offended so there are clear battle lines of us vs the world, which feels more like a righteous crusade that automatically makes us the good guys. Back then, it was really more me vs you where people could watch the fight and maybe comment or pick sides, but there was no compulsion to make it a war with armies and propaganda.