There’s a “huge need” for celebrity AI chatbots, in the same way there was a “huge need” for the Metaverse. People like Zuck always glom on to the newest shiny thing, dumping a ton of money into it to try to make it seem essential without actual trying to define an actual use for it that anyone wants.

The best critique of South Park and one that’s come the closest to explaining why it rubs me the wrong way is that they always take the side of “not caring”. The end result is always that caring about anything is dumb and “both sides” are bad if either of them actually care. 

I mean, instead of reading random comments you could go and see the countless examples of companies imploding because they chose to try to grow infinitely forever instead of finding a niche and being successful.

Good ole “line goes up” mentality. You can’t “stay small” in capitalism, you have to keep growing exponentially! Never plateau, just continue making money and growing forever and ever. This makes total sense and it’s not like you’re going to hit a plateau or run out of an audience, the world and its resources are…

I mean yeah, our system sucks, that’s why I sarcastically said “good system we got”. It’s beyond individual cops blowing off her concerns though...by all accounts her concerns were seen as totally valid, as the guy has been arrested and she’s been granted more than one protective order.

Why did it take 5 arrests and multiple protective orders before anyone was like “maybe this guy shouldn’t be allowed to fly planes at all”?

That’s the most confusing part...I think most of the Marvel shows’ failings is that they rely too much on CGI action and beat ‘em up finales...it seems like Daredevil WASN’T doin this, and they scrapped it.

The line between straight up grifters and people running the world is fast blurring so much as to be non existent. I think Elon is the prime example of someone with immense power who at this point is completely full of shit. 

Initially when they said Momoa “dressed like Johnny Depp” I thought it meant like, full Jack Sparrow gear or something. Not just like, in that kinda shlubby way Depp dresses. I don’t know how you could ever measure that as intentional or not.

Ah that makes sense, thank you

What does “I’m dehydrated” mean in this context? I don’t feel like a lack of fluids is what she’s trying to convey, but the opposite.

Except unfortunately what you get is some lifeless, soulless hackneyed crap.

Really enjoyed this, but if it didn’t get renewed it would really suck considering it’s basically all set up (like most first seasons these days).

The DoD can’t account for HUNDREDS of BILLIONS worth of assets. It failed 5 audits in a row. There is no oversight or accountability, and it accounts for 78% of our country’s TOTAL BUDGET. That’s “whatever” with you? Ok...

Maybe it’d be nice to know the NATURE of the comparison? Was the original person trying to compare them like “Oh Pink is as funny as Suzy Eddie Izzard!”? Or were they maybe comparing a 60 year old comedian to someone 20 year her junior in a negative light?

This is irrelevant to the issue of federal budgets.

I agree with some of your points, like incentivizing working from home. When I was working from home I was filling up my tank every 3-4 weeks instead of every 4 days.

“People just like cars” is a vast oversimplification. Yes, there is car culture, but that exists in many places. You can “like cars and want to be able to drive them” without needing to use a car any time you want to go anywhere other than a stroll within your own neighborhood.

The US basically has legal bribery in the form of lobbying so unless a coalition of people can get together to outbid the automakers, oil companies, and other businesses interested in keeping cars on the road, there’s a fat chance that We the People can do jack shit.

Is it just me or are slideshows getting worse? They take longer to click through (I used to be able to immediately click to the next slide, but now I have to click two or three more times while the whole page loads). And this slideshow doesn’t even say how many slides are in it.