This should be in the dictionary for mildlyinteresting. Nailed it, no notes.

Although I am wondering on the why.

They're scumbags. Nothing more than that. I know a few people like this who do awful shit like this purely because they're shitty nasty shitheads.

Have YOU heard how they make hot dogs ? They tend to be fairly high quality. The "it's all buttholes" isn't a thing. I don't think it's ever been a thing.

There might be lower quality outliers because there always are.

It decodes as an emoji in an app. Not sure which one as I'm desktop, but a lot of apps use :: to bracket shortcut codes. It's basically an extension of how :) turns to a picture on your phone. They just use numbers as IDs

No. Wasting money to put in ornate and ridiculously fancy and unnecessary doors to congress. Except they're not voted in and they're mostly appointed due to cronyism or nepotism, with the rest inheriting. It's a vile institution that should be abolished, but as it stands it is a fundamental department of our government.

I'm not in pain in my dreams lol. I love how I can roll over and resume them though it's my fave superpower.

Slippery slope fallacy. Everything good can be abused by the bad, it's why you have rigorous protections in place to protect it, and when the abuse happens, you fight it.

Because they are working on a whole other level. There are so many levels of yes-men, and scenarios that are only going through because the people above and below are terrified to push back. So you get to the point of "let's antagonise the West, we're Russia! We're Bear-STRONG!" and a bunch of dudes side-eyeing each other just agree.

(This is a ridiculously high level of simplification by armchair-analysis of course. But the point is..kinda made)