Ridiculous Opinions #209

So, I was posting a Maurice comic on Threads and I saw a link to this article from The Atlantic, and I got mad.
Why? With all that’s going on in the world, why are we, as a society, such navel-gazers that this kind of crap gets written about? How can a magazine like The Atlantic commission a story like this? How can the writer sleep at night, thinking, “I really knocked it out of the park with that article on the mustard-flavored Skittle!”"?
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