zoostation @ zoostation @lemmy.world

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What about when Conan made shows during the last writers strike, what's your image of him now?

Time makes fools of us all.

Then they couldn't do their performative outrage, which is all they have.

Old people who still use Twitter are the new old people who still use Facebook.

Vaping in public is already trash, but being Lauren Boebert at the same time takes it to a new level.

Bottom tier food. Bottom tier company. I don't know why anyone eats this level of trash anymore. Inflation has hit fast food harder than other types of restaurants, or groceries. It doesn't make sense justifying paying these prices for this when you can get better food for comparable prices now. There used to be an expectation that this food would at least be cheap.

Baseball is unwatchable to me anymore because of ads the announcers read during innings.

Everyone hates advertising, but it's an unavoidable part of life and it's never bothered me when there's a 3 minute commercial break. I'll mute it until the show comes back on and look at my phone or get up or something. Or I'll fast forward if I have a buffer.

But baseball TV and radio announcers reading frequent quick ads between pitches or between at bats can't be skipped/muted and it's like fingernails on a blackboard for me. After 30+ years watching baseball, I'm essentially done with it now.

Everyone complains about ads but I seem to be the only one who thinks real TV with its easily skippable commercials is the least bad option. Streaming services aren't going to let us control the video stream the way DVRs do.

I have a bunch, I started reading them when I was a kid in the early 90s. But the greatest ones of all are the Destiny trilogy by David Mack.

The Cold Equations trilogy was definitely interesting too, but the Destiny trilogy is Trek's Thrawn trilogy.

Leave this self promotion spam shit on Reddit

Nobody's had to watch a commercial since Tivo came out in 1999.

Me too. Even the more flawed episodes of a 24 episode season contribute valuable worldbuilding etc. Those shows became more than the sum of their individual episodes.

You felt like you lived on Voyager with them. You'll never feel that with SNW.

Even for the internet, this is stupid.

Oppenheimer went through his life naively and confidently making certain choices. Juxtaposing him facing consequences for a lifetime's worth of small actions while being the one to punish himself for the big one was brilliant and crushing.

Any director could have made a movie where the climax was the explosion, or a debate about the morality of it featuring a lot of footage of dead civilians.

Think about it like Craigslist. It will still be around in 5 years but it won't be culturally relevant like it was. Just like Craigslist is still technically around, but no one talks about it and I don't know anyone who uses it.

Twitter is too big to fail completely in the near future, just like Craigslist was.

No different than Chrome.

We're sorry to bother you at a time like this, Dr. Crusher. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then.

I get what you're saying but I don't think she perceived she was in any danger, so I don't think she showed bravery. She was probably too stupid to understand there could be real consequences.

"Brave" would have been facing 4 years with a president who made her uncomfortable instead of throwing a big tantrum.