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  • I have never thought of this before, but you are on to something.

    The show has done quite a few advertisements as part of the show. First that comes to mind are Fight Milk, Kitton Mittons, and Patty's Shotgun, which aren't real of course. Dick towel was made to be real but that was just a genuinely good idea.

    In one scene an individual is mentioned eating a whole sleeve of Oreos, but based on the way they talk about the Oreos and the person eating them, no way they got paid to mention the product. The show also depicts Wawas quite badly in a similar way. Wouldn't be surprised if those got mentioned purely because of their ubiquity in some areas including Philly, and not as paid advertisements. Sears comes up in one episode, but they are seemingly critiquing this exact type of advertisement as it is used in the Extreme Home Makeover show. I wonder if they were paid or if they were just convenient plot devices. Dave and Busters and TGI Fridays in the recession episode, of course.

    The Coors Light mentions are in your face ads, but I had to do some real thinking to come up with that one, since I don't drink beer. Any others you thought of that I fail to remember?

  • Absolutely. I believe they shortened the seasons a while back to give themselves more time for each episode, and it shows. On subsequent watches, the newer episodes are just as great as the old ones.

  • How about a spread across genres in no particular order:

    Death Note (controversial, considering the ending)

    You're the Worst (underappreciated masterpiece)

    Avatar the Last Airbender

    The Good Place

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (incomplete, but has maintained a 10)

    Breaking Bad, which is worth listing again even though you mentioned it.

    I wouldn't say it's quiiite there, but honorable mention to Modern Family, which is the best episodic sitcom I can think of. Has some meh moments but starts and ends as a 10.

  • Some thoughts I have which oppose your argument:

    1. A mod can only be expected to be responsible for their own community. It is not reasonable to expect them to know the rules of other communities to know a post applies.
    2. Some posts do not have an applicable community. The posts may not have a general place to be sent to.
    3. There is no tool I am aware of to allow mods to send posts elsewhere without simply posting from their own account. I'm not sure that the use case here would justify the work needed to create that tool.
    4. Removes posts have been determined to be problematic by nature of being deemed to need removal. Is incorrect posting not a problem?
    5. When a mod removes a post, they would presumably tell you the rule which was broken. You may be able to adjust the post accordingly and resubmit.
    6. Bigger is not necessarily better, and Lemmy may not need a growth advantage. Being hard to use keeps out much of the general population, which I've seen suggested as a benefit more than a hindrance.
  • I'm heading far into the future - say 1000 years or perhaps 100 if communication would be an issue. I'm going to grab all sorts of portable devices and tools to take back with me, and I will maintain the remainder of my life without sharing my goodies. The world is screwed because they get no fruits of my intense labor, but that is fine since I hate them anyway. For that afternoon of work, I get to live a great life while everyone else must suffer in modernity.

  • The documentary side is going to be completely ignored and you hate to see it. There will be talking in the background about a skyscraper or a ferris wheel, but the drama of the murders and intricate planning therein will surely be the bulk of the movie.

  • I think that is an interesting thought. But it's not necessary to be a repost to be a meme. The propagation happens not only from the reposting, but the voting. It's more likely to be viewed more if it's up voted by many. The theme itself can be Dawkins' meme without being copied verbatim via reposting.

  • Ancient people used lead dishware for millenia. I honestly don't think any modern lead poisoning is new or worse than it has been in most of the world. Id buy it if lead poisoning for the common person was more likely now, but there is no chance it is more severe with all of the regulations most of the world has today.

    Yes, perhaps global food scarcity is less manufactured than I made it out to be. I agree with that solution, too. But the fact that people in the "richest" country in the world are dying of hunger is downright despicable, and there is no doubt that it is manufactured here in the US. We have the food and the owning class lets it rot so they can have cheaper servants.

    From what I've come to understand, local governments are your friend. It's the corporations running a train on them that messes up money allocation! Not to mention investors coming in and buying up swathes of land and using all of the public water for their alfalfa in the desert

  • I am not an expert in any relevant field, but I have thoughts. I'd love to be told I was wrong by experts.

    1. Are governments actually in more disarray today than in previous periods of history? Or do they just seem that way due to the media sensationalizing the bad? Do we just not hear about wins around the world due to their inability to generate clicks and therefore conclude that the world is only horrible? I posit that we tend to overestimate the bad when compared to the good.
    2. Again, not an expert, but have the richest had this much influence across history? We have never been so reliant on the goods owned by huge corporations? We (humanity) grow so much food, but let people go hungry to keep the cost of food high, because the bean counters determined it more profitable. In a post-scarcity society, we shouldn't need to work 3 jobs or skip insulin. Scarcity is artificially baked into the economy so that the rich can exploit our labor. Late stage capitalism, basically.
  • If you cannot afford to shop elsewhere, then I don't see how it's reasonable to fault you for that. But if you can justify spending a little less and want to avoid it, then I'm sure you know what I would suggest. Do or do not, a wise man once said.

    Are you frustrated that you can't muster the willpower to avoid shopping there? The website was literally designed to get you addicted to it. The man himself has said as such. There are browser extensions that will block specific url families. I wouldn't be surprised if entire extensions were designed for that website specifically.

  • This sounds like a stupid question, but in a sense, yes you can charge up a punch.

    Heads up, this may be oversimplified. Your nervous system prevents you from using an entire muscle group at once. When you lift something, your individual muscle fibers take turns. If the item is light, these fibers take long breaks due to how many are needed to lift the item. If you are lifting something heavy, your fibers have fewer breaks.

    You can train your body to use more of your muscle fibers initially. There have been instances of parents lifting entire cars to save their children. Adrenaline dont provide power, but rather unlock the abilities of your muscles. Some of your muscles would snap associated bones if the fibers were all used at once, which is why people can't do this in most circumstances.

    But yeah, if you were to manage to train your body for it, you might be able to perform a punch using all of the associated fibers in the muscle groups involved, at great physical damage to yourself. I mean that or working out to build the muscles will charge your punches in a sense. That's not an exciting answer though.

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    Where were you when the fire nation attacked?

    When the world needed you most, you vanished.