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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I feel like he was working up to a punchline about haven mistaken a toy for an electric school bus, but for some reason failed to get there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I've seen other comics where Everett rejected the concept. One was when he told a woman he believed in it (in the sense of wanting it to happen) and threatened to kill children, and another when he told a man who brought it up that he was introducing him to race homicide. (I guess the term "genocide" hadn't entered the vocabulary.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Also videos that weren't intended for kids but superficially looked like they were got involuntarily flagged as such and had their comments removed.

A separate site would have been a much better solution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I can't speak to the behind-the-scenes drama, but I agree that Pierce was at his best in Season One, where he was a little bit grandiose and a little bit of a jerk but still had moments of wisdom and humanity. I always liked the talk he gave Jeff in the boating episode.

Turning him into a total buffoon villain from season 2 onwards was a change for the worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

What's going to happen in the long run? Is that part of the country simply going to become uninhabitable? If so, why isn't the real estate market reflecting that?

(Genuine question)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Like the Klingon dish gagh?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Taiwan had the same concern. What they did is make it so that receipts also work as lottery tickets, to encourage people to ask for them and hold on to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah. I mean I agree that focusing on change at the systemic level is more effective than changing individual habits, but what people don't realize is that the systemic change we need is the kind that will force those individual changes.

Taxing or regulating the oil companies will help, but it will help by making energy more expensive so people are forced to make do with less.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That was my first thought too. What's this orb pondering business everyone's on about?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

What I usually love about musicals is the variety of songs and subject matters, and with the exception of the Klingon song, the songs all felt the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

True, the complexity argument is usually given in bad faith. But I've seen even people who advocate RCV get confused about how the rounds work and how this affects the voting strategy.

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