GraniteM

It's been a long time since I read Foundation, so I'm not sure if there's specific context provided right around the provided quote. The entire series is about an organization trying to mitigate the collapse of a galactic empire, and how its goals are primarily achieved through guile and subtlety, rather than trying to win wars.

"I need you to prove that you're bi."

[produces ticket stub]

"Fuck, that's good proof."

Edit:

The anaconda grow.

The anaconda grow.

The anaconda grow up to a quarter ton, hon.

What does God need with a sausage?

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation

Perennial

How about the fact that home insurance doesn't cover preventative care. We had a branch fall on our roof and the insurance had to pay out to get that part of the roof fixed. I pointed out that there's another dead branch up there that I'm a little concerned about hitting the roof, and maybe they would prefer to pay a few hundred to get a guy up there to remove the branch than a few thousand to get the roof repaired the next time, and the insurance company said absolutely not.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There are about 14,000 coal miners in West Virginia.

We could give each of them a million dollars and close all of the mines for a little more than the cost of a single aircraft carrier.

Also the best Superbowl halftime show of all time.

2000 United States presidential election in Florida

After an intense recount process and the United States Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, Bush won Florida's electoral votes by a margin of only 537 votes out of almost six million cast (0.009%) and, as a result, became the president-elect.

I lived through this, and to this day when people say that voting doesn't matter, it makes my hair stand on end.