Not sure if this is a tangent from Xanax or not, but Xanax (alprazolam) is not an antidepressant (just sometimes used off-label as one). It is a benzodiazepine used in the treatment of e.g. panic disorder. A 2012 Cochrane review remarked that the only studies they could find regarding its efficacy for depression were “heterogeneous, of poor quality and only addressed short‐term effects”. Long-term use of benzodiazepines (discouraged) is even believed to lead to depression. Depression and anxiety are often comorbid, and helping one can affect the other; the 2012 review didn’t really understand the mechanism that Xanax was working through. If you’re talking about getting off it, benzos are associated with high risk of both physical and psychological dependency.

Rambling aside, getting off of Xanax compared to getting off common antidepressants like SSRIs and tricyclics is a totally different ballgame.*

* The Cochrane review found withdrawals were less common in Xanax, but they note (given the notably poor evidence): “these findings should be interpreted with caution, given the dependency properties of benzodiazepines.”

That is Marc Brown from ABC 7 Los Angeles, and this old forum thread discusses it a bit. The links are dead, but they mention a Marque Clark, who was arrested in 2006. So it’s plausibly (but not confirmed) real. Digging through newspapers, it looks like Clark was arrested c. September 20, 2006, assuming he was the one in the sketch.

Nah, @[email protected] had basically already answered it; I just decided to follow up.

Big Bird does establish when meeting Mr. Rogers that he likes foot races.

The front is a lemon avenue flying straightly.

Folding Ideas has come a long way since then.

Edit: There’s an AI slop video (more than one, even) floating around from this image, but I feel like I’ve seen this one before genAI was commonplace. I wonder if the video was generated from what started out as a static shitpost.

Edit 2: Nope, I’m misremembering. Look at his eyes (beyond the fact I couldn’t find credible evidence these reporters exist and there’s no news channel watermark due to what would’ve been a crop if this were real).

Edit 3: Might be traceable to a TikTok account previously called ‘curious_flicks’ but now ‘once_a_pun_a_time’ whose whole deal is genAI slop videos. This isn’t their only slop local news report, and it’s not even their only slop report doing the sketch likeness thing. The video from the OP is here, so that YT Shorts one was a plagiarized version of AI slop. We live in lovely times.

The side profile doesn’t show it, but carrying the cross gave Jesus severe scoliosis.

“Now let’s see what Squidward does.”

who still wants a television in this century?

This is so out-of-touch it’s unreal.

—Someone who doesn’t still want a television in this century

??? The fuck? Where did this come from? I was just talking about why I didn’t expand upon what “that” was in my comment because I’d wrongly assumed “that” was what we were all collectively talking about.

I kind of just assumed that’s what we were all talking about because that’s the entire point of the post. (Besides idling, which is stupid regardless of what gas station you’d be waiting in line at.)

Well yes, more people longer lines, but I wonder if the Costco is specifically problematic in comparison to other gas stations in those areas like the meme is making fun of.

I can’t recall seeing a Costco or a Sam’s Club gas station being packed when other gas stations were fine, so I wonder if that’s an especially high-density thing.

Taking that at face value: does the “to save $2 on gas” part apply at that point, though? I imagine if you’re waiting an hour for gas at Costco in Seattle rush hour, the other gas stations are near-equally saturated. Because the crux of the meme is clearly that the drivers are at the Costco when they could go somewhere else with a substantially lower wait to the point that $2 is meaningless in comparison.

(But also, if they are idling, then they definitely shouldn’t be regardless of what station they’re at. That part is obvious.)

Interesting. I wonder if that gets more problematic very close to the Interstate or in very large cities.

Is that a common thing? I’ve almost never driven past a Costco station where there wasn’t a pump available (usually several). I know the part about “30 minutes” is hyperbole, but I don’t think a bunch of cars congesting Costco stations instead of spreading out to other ones is an actual problem that’s regularly happening in reality.

“FAQs:”

“Streets behind”, even.

I’m happy that the US is adopting metric.

I don’t know if you’re just not from the US, but this dual labeling of groceries has been ongoing for decades. The US formally began transitioning to metric during the 1970s and has had plenty of dual uses ever since; it got cut short due to a mix of public apathy and active public disapproval, and when it was on its last legs, Reagan axed the metrification board early in his first term (not a defense, but it was seriously barely doing anything by that time because of public unwillingness to change). Rulers have inches and centimeters; there are imperial and metric tools; kids do learn metric in schools (usually in the context of a science class); etc. You aren’t expected to know metric as an average functioning adult, but it’s everywhere and useful to know in US society – usually just kind of in the background like here.

TL;DR: “Is adopting” said in 2026 in response to soda labels is a steep misunderstanding of metrification in the US.

“Can you stack your family?”

If you’re going, I’m coming with you. —An autistic person

Edit: One of the comments pointed out that he’s counting the ceiling tiles while they strap the prisoner up with a mic. It’s so perfect.

Big autistic reporter Michael Falk energy.