This is a non-sensical question. On a social media service YOU are the product. You’re characterizing the content as the product. But the content is merely the advertisement or bait for users, who are the real product, being sold to advertisers and countless other organizations. Why do you think reddit started charging for API access? Same goes for ads on Facebook, Google services, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

Wow so far there’s a lot of toxic attitudes around nudity in this thread. Right away I see a few comments conflating nudity with sex. I know y’all are horny motherfuckers, but a naked body is not inherently a sexual object. It’s okay to look at people, especially with their consent. I’d assume that because they are in a communal space that constitutes their consent. It’s not as if we’re even talking about being nude in public, this is just private communal space. While good etiquette is about not making others uncomfortable, no one needs anyone else’s consent to exist, clothed or not. Likewise staring at someone, especially to the point of treating them more like an object than a person, is rude even when they are fully clothed. Sure some people are exhibitionist. But, someone can want to be naked and be comfortable being naked around others without being an exhibitionist. So go ahead and look, but make equal time for the person inside by acknowledging them, making eye contact, generally be pleasant, and avoid being threatening or creepy.

I can see I hit a nerve. Y’all got a lot of weird hangups and love to project them onto others.

I mostly go to cinemas to see films that look and feel better in a theatre. Comedy can also be great in a theatre with a good crowd. Laughing along with other people is cathartic. For me comedy is embedded in good writing and editing, but not always fully there is comedy for comedy’s sake. In other words, I find myself laughing more, and harder, at funny moments in movies that don’t label themselves comedy. I get bored with action movies that take themselves too seriously the same way a movie that a comedy without anything else going for it can wear thin. And the crowds are thin, so going out to laugh with others is often better done at a comedy club or casino than a movie theatre.

I don’t think comedy is dying. It’s just that, for modern audiences that can watch anything that was ever distributed on-demand, all the low hanging fruit has been plucked. The same old slapstick, schmaltzy rom-coms, and body humor may still bring in some, but it’s far from unique or compelling enough to bring in the crowds to what is an increasingly overpriced and underwhelming experience at the theatre. Action, adventure, sci-fi, etc. will always benefit from advances in technology, so that old stories and cliche writing feels shiny and new. Dramas are a showcase of directing and acting skills, so old scripts can come back to life. But the writing of comedy and wit stands alone, benefiting very little from advances in tech or trending celebrities.

These days I try to buy either DRM free flax files. If I really like the art or the artist in addition to wanting to regularly actually listen to as an album, then I may try to buy vinyl + flac files. If it’s at a show I’ll buy whatever is available that I can play because at that point it’s more about the merch than music. I’m probably going to pass on the wax cylinders and I may think long and hard before buying a cassette.

It’s not hard, it just isn’t particularly efficient or convenient. The standard method is to use a bunch more water that you want to become actual ice, make it in large insulated blocks, then chop at the end. I have a little insulated tray that makes two at a time. They come out pretty clear, but at least half the water used is essentially waste to create a clear cube. The top half being still ice, but full of little bubbles, not clear. If I was throwing a party, as people are want to do on summer weekends, and I wanted many many big clear ice cubes then I’d seriously consider buying a box load.

Lake Peigneur oops

Ironic typo

Looks like Exo-squad.

Is the word in English that you’re looking for rouse? Or rousing? As in “Julica rouses”. Or “Julica - rousing” so the dash makes sense again. There’s also Reveille or The Rouse for the morning bugle call.

So what? How does that matter? It’s not as if that’s how generations work.

It’s kind of funny to see all the hate for a company built on rebooting old stories for a modern audience getting flack for continuing to reboot old stories for a new generation. Are y’all just angry that it’s “your” childhood nostalgia that’s no longer profitable or popular with the literal kids these days?

Disney’s not even the only one to do it, people tend to love that shit and examples abound of your favorite nostalgia IP not being the original telling of a story. No denying that Disney’s choices here are entirely profit driven. But pretending like this is a new thing Disney is only doing to your generation’s nostalgia is disingenuous at best. Maybe just judge the reboots the way we judge cover songs or genre “standards”. Whose going to fault Johnny Cash for covering NIN? Or Nina Simone performing a song also sung by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, and countless others? Do they add something? Do they re-work it into their own style? Reevaluate elements? Re-frame perspectives? Adapt problematic historical culture pastiches and norms for a modern moral perspective? Maybe they just fix the pacing of a story for a new audience or a new medium. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was by no means original, not even the first movie to be made made on the story, but nobody faults it for that. Same with Dune. Same with literally and stage production before the invention of motion pictures.

DISCLAIMER: This statement is in no way meant to be, nor should it be interpreted as, an endorsement of any of Disney’s business practices past, present, or future. This new movie might be shit, but it won’t be because it’s a story that’s been told before.

Why do you think this is about drinking coffee that tastes bad? I hate flavored coffee. I love coffee that has its own strong flavors (and I love a variety of those flavors from beans grown in different places and in different preparations). I also hate bitter poorly prepared coffees. Coffee should taste good, but it can also rock my mornings like only Grace Jones in a leather loincloth can.

Performative declarations that things people enjoy are cringe is also cringe.

This is pretty close to the premise of Good Omens if I’m remembering correctly.

Wow, if the demo was too much for the developers to maintain that doesn’t inspire confidence in my patience to maintain it on my machine.

No denying that I often interpret things in a comically literal way. No offense taken. Farts are funny.

This comic wasn’t particularly funny to me to begin with. The above dissection is why. This toad was dead on arrival.

The punchline implies that assumption or parallel processing. It must because it’s inconsistent with the common rules of the myth. Wishes are commonly executed in series, not in parallel, which is impicit in the syntax of the first, second, and third wish. So that assumption of parallel wish processing isn’t even consistent with most of the language of the comic or with the final panel.

Which one, 1944 (staring Cary Grant) or 1969 (with Bob Crane in the same role)?

1944 or 1969?