Futurama has always had pop culture references, the original seasons were not about pop culture. Most references were decades old making them essentially history references, not pop culture references.
It wasn't till the comedy central seasons that we had self-referential shit like Fry re-enacting the shut up and take my money meme.
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To be fair to OP, they really should've stopped advertising this as a feature years ago. It'd be like if sliced bread was still advertised as "Now sliced for your convenience!" or whatever.
Hey, any progress is progress. I'm not a fan of the liberal government right now but just the fact that they are talking about this and (hopefully) implementing some sort of structure for it is a big deal imo. I think UBI is a good idea but I would imagine implementing it successfully is going to be a very difficult task.
OK. I hate to "defend" a terf but I don't think that's her point. JK doesn't want to be black. She doesn't think she should be allowed to change her race and she knows that most people agree with that. She thinks it's an uno reverse card to go "ha! so how come you're allowed to change your gender then?" as if race and gender are the exact same thing.
Anyways, congrats on your transition Queen.
It's ridiculous too because it's creating whats essentially a reverse wealth transfer. Millennials & GenZ have to give all the money they earn (doing actual labour) to people who did absolutely nothing to earn that money. Housing as an investment doesn't make sense from any perspective, it's one step removed from a pyramid scheme. Prices cannot keep going up indefinitely when no value is being created.
God this shit makes me so fucking angry. Our generation has been fucked by the previous generation and they won't fix it they've caused because it hurts their bottom line.
My interpretation agrees with you. I suppose it's possible he only saw the thousands of years of being a tyrant and was rejecting that. But I still think he saw the worm transformation.
Funny, cause nothing breaks immersion faster for me than product placement.
Steam may suck at extra goodies like streaming but they sure as hell don't suck at selling games. Constant sales, cloud saves, pre-downloads, a solid friend system for co-op games. They nail all the important shit and that's really all that matters to most people.
Honestly I respect the Hermione comment. Obviously Hermione was written as white, like duh. She was expressing her support for a black-casted hermione because her race is unimportant. It was just a cheeky way of supporting the casting choice amid the backlash from racist fans.
The Dumbledore being gay thing is... idk. I think it makes sense that he can be gay but JK should have been explicit and not canonized his queerness after the fact for clout.
Obligatory fuck JK for being a TERF.
idk if this is a stupid opinion but I feel like us, the consumers are to blame. If everyone just waited a week and read reviews before buying games then publishers wouldn't be able to get away with this shit.
Lemmy learns exponential math.
Mostly joking, thanks for doing the math.
"I'm sorry I angered a popular singers fan base with my hateful rhetoric."
Or just fund public transportation instead :)
Are you aware there are countries all over the world where police don't resort to shooting children when situations become tense and potentially violent?
All of those things can and always have been accomplished without the use of a car.
JK "I'm protecting women" Rowling?
The people responsible went to jail right?
Right?
A new app I’ve tested is Spotube (Spotify open source alternative).
This is super misleading. Spotube isn't a Spotify alternative, it uses Spotify metadata and streams the audio from youtube.
I'll bite.
Drones are loud as fuck and if drone delivery became common there would be a massive backlash from the public. Most people live in cities and do not have a yard to put a target on lol. Drone delivery in cities is almost certainly less cost efficient than truck delivery. Land drones are much more likely in cities, or just dudes with cargo bikes like in many European cities.
So yeah drone delivery might "become a thing" but I doubt it will be mainstream.
I've hated Paradox ever since I bought CK2 and then realized how many minor features were locked behind $5 DLCs. I later pirated the game to play all the DLC and there is absolutely no fucking way that shit was worth what they are charging. Decided then never to buy a Paradox game again.
Compare that to the Factorio devs Wube. They released their game as a beta and then just kept updating it and adding features until it was done. Then they spent years fixing basically every bug in the game. As far as I know they never decreased the price or put the game on sale, and at one point they increased the price of their game because of inflation. Which honestly is fine, they made a great game and they are continuing to support the game, why decrease the price?
I know I'm coming off as a Wube shill but in my eyes they are ideal devs. Paradox in theory make really interesting games but in practice they poison them with shitty monetization strategies. If they just made games and added free updates for a while afterwards if they wanted to I probably would have spent a shit load on their games.
I'm ranting but as a side note, Paradox definitely abuses fomo. They make games that basically require you to watch videos of how to play and those videos inevitably mention DLCs which you then start wondering what you're missing out on. That's definitely what made me want to buy their DLC.
Fuck paradox
If this happened to me the first thing I'd do is start looking for other jobs. The second thing I would do is start giving the absolute bare minimum effort possible without getting fired.
This CEO is a fucking idiot. In what I assume is an attempt to increase productivity he's just caused his entire workforce to not give a fuck about their jobs anymore.
Also just a fucking disgusting UX. Gross website.
Spending all that time and money setting up my homeserver is looking better and better every day...
I can see the onion headline already.
"Non-voters threaten not to vote if Biden doesn't do what they want"
If Dems win the I feel like Republicans are gonna have a period of recalibration as they move away from maga politics.
One can hope at least.
Not sure how old you are but calling brown people terrorists was extremely common after 9/11.
I'm mad HL2 ended on a cliff hanger and I'm really mad at how they handled TF2. Overall though yeah valve gud.
SnOwFlAkEs
Fully self driving cars. Turns out it's a lot harder than we thought to build a system that doesn't get confused by edge cases.
By the time they are widely legal most people will probably (hopefully) have realized how stupid car dependency is.
Yup. Sucks to be those tourists for sure but it's not like they were in danger.
Nuance is dead.
It's absolutely bonkers to me that people think not voting for Biden will somehow help Palestinians.
'Cars = Freedom Crew', where ya at?
Ah yes, feminism, an ideology that consists solely of extremist views. I'm not even well versed in feminism and I know that Andrea Dworkin is quite extreme and is a polarizing figure.
If you have reduced feminism to the views of a single extremist than you really need to get your shit together.
This guy's HUNTS criminals. He's kind of a badass.
Sounds like a great feature.
We all know the saying, time flies when you're being tortured.
Missing the forest for the trees or whatever. It's not about skin colour but how society perceives and treats you. If Kamala isn't black then why is she being called a DEI hire when Hilary Clinton never was?
Personally, I think the most likely scenario is that he got the parasite the same way you get any other disease that uses the fecal-oral
I thought you were going somewhere else with this...
bruh's out here advocating for genocide