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Somebody show this to Trudy & Doug of Oglaf.

The entity is absolutely, deliberately manipulating Carol through social isolation. The collective knows what social isolation does to people; there’s a million or so therapists it can draw that info from. There are also many ways to perhaps combat it that they could be offering to Carol, but they aren’t doing that. The entity has its own agenda, likely a set of Asimov-esque rules of robotics, serving a primary goal of propagation (with most of the human race out building satellites and radio antennas powered by solar to blast the signal further).

Traveling logistics. For the entity to be able to deliver items to Carol while she is on the road so quickly, I imagine there’s a fleet of cargo trucks following her around, just a few miles behind her (beyond her view), with delivery drones ready to fetch and deliver whatever she asks for. 

You think this show is slow? There is a big difference between a series that is paced with deliberation to cultivate a tone and establish character motivation… and a series that is just insufferably drawn out. I remember Serial Experiments Lain. Pluribus is fine.

As a reminder:

Angel, previously Angel Studios, previously VidAngel, was founded by Latter-Day Saint family (Mormon) members to produce content that was suitable to show their kids. They later made a business out of editing Hollywood films to allow viewers to skip or mute scenes they found objectionable (without the consent of the rights-holders), and got their pants sued off for it.

After a series of mergers, it's now a publicly traded company worth over $1.5 billion and continues to produce content that aligns heavily with religious and faith-based causes.

As a reminder:

Angel, previously Angel Studios, previously VidAngel, was founded by Latter-Day Saint family (Mormon) members to produce content that was suitable to show their kids. They later made a business out of editing Hollywood films to allow viewers to skip or mute scenes they found objectionable (without the consent of the rights-holders), and got their pants sued off for it.

After a series of mergers, it's now a publicly traded company worth over $1.5 billion and continues to produce content that aligns heavily with religious and faith-based causes.

I watched a few episodes of this. It felt deeply Young Republican coded and I couldn't run away fast enough.

Inflation is real. Revenue milestones mean nothing.

Sweet jesus, that was insufferable.

Spoilers to save everyone 20 minutes: a professor briefly describes a study meant to measure racial bias, then spends the entirety of the video pressuring 4 (nervous?) students to speculate on the study's outcome.

He never says whether the study is real or not, or what the outcome was if it were real. The students spend most of the video giving hesitant answers because, obviously, they don't know. Also, they're probably not stupid and recognize there's a high likelihood that the professor is setting up a cute "gotcha!" situation where the study's outcome is not what one might expect, making anyone who defended the straight-forward answer the butt of a joke in front of all their peers.

The video ends with him finger-wagging at the students for being so hesitant to speculate, insisting that media and culture per-indoctornates them to presume the study would prove racial bias.

Like, WTF bro?

Yikes, I am absolutely slipping today. Also fixed.

Whoops! Fixed.

Vague yet fond memories of getting too drunk and being served birthday cake at Trouble Peach in Shimokitazawa the night before an international flight.

...or you maintain some fucking dignity and make them fire you.

Both capitulating and quitting are complicit acts.

Mounting the OLED cinema display right behind your ultrawide gaming battlestation, then putting your living room couch on the other side of the room is giving me an interior design headache.

The last time I saw this meme I argued that the grinch’s spot is better filled by the Reverend Billy and the church of stop shopping.

Pff.

That’s what they want you to believe.

For fuck's sake people...

Here's the ad: https://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34728882/its-the-most-terrible-time-of-the-year/mcdonalds

Watchmen (2009)

Cross-posted to the trailers channel! Let me know if you'd prefer a different creator credit than Local Wizard Magic Service.

It was the migration from cooking demonstrations to celebrity presence content (Babsih tries every X, Babish ranks every Y).

Cooking demos keep the focus on the food; techniques, presentation, and results. Plus having an entertaining and charismatic host.

Now those videos lean on the now-recognizable host being entertaining and charismatic, and doing… whatever. And it kind of makes sense in a marketplace-y sort of way. I can watch anybody cook, but Babish has the corner on Babish content, so why not lean into that? Also I’m sure the guy gets tired of making the same content over and over again, so he’s trying to find something interesting that catches on.

I see Nat from Nats What I Reckon doing the same thing. And good on them for trying new stuff.

me receiving all those guys nudes