I thankfully didn’t have enough weed or alcohol available to me to make it that deep into the debate, and to be frank, I’m glad I missed this bit. How infuriatingly stupid.

After the fucking Presidential debate last night, I’m scared as living fuck that I’ll be living in a fascist dictatorship by January 7th, 2025.

That fear was compounded with the death of the Chevron ruling by the Supreme Court this morning. US administrative state is basically DOA.

They’re out here doing Project 2025 right the fuck now. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s fucking happening right now.

Honestly, I’ll say it, if you’re not scared shitless by all this at this point, you’re naive, no matter if you’re a US citizen or not. The world’s largest military being controlled by fascists is a bad deal for the whole planet.

The Notebook is notorious for this.

It’s “hero” has big stalker “I’ll kill myself to punish you if you dont love me” kind of vibe.

Lots of women fucking love this movie and it makes me sick because the relationship is SO unhealthy.

Yep if the MB has a PS/2 slot this is the solution.

You can also get a usb to PS/2 converter so you don’t need an extra keyboard.

GIFs exported in the original file resolution are usually pretty damn big, but I don’t like giant GIFs myself, so I’ve found the 480x270 to be a good size to keep most of them below 25 megabytes.

Reminds me of the two Nexus 4’s I got. First one dead in the box, second overheated after two weeks and mysteriously lost its IMEI and never had cell signal again. Worked fine otherwise, but stupid.

That’s dope, I’ve got one of those, I’ll look into that. Thanks so much for the suggestion!

https://www.amazon.com/Scrubbing-Bubbles-Automatic-Cleaner-Starter/dp/B001QJAHIY/

Maybe not this exact model, but 20 years ago when I was a young gun in college for the first time, I got one of these because I hated cleaning the fucking shower and tub.

It worked about as badly as you’d expect. I don’t know if modern versions are any better, but holy shit they’re a lot more expensive than they used to be. I remember spending like $40 at the time.

I quickly learned to just wipe down the shower after use and clean it more often. Thing was fucking worthless.

When I realized I could just make high quality GIFs with KDEnlive it was a game changer.

It can be highly dependent on if you own a cat.

When I am not a cat owner: Over

When I am a cat owner: Under, most definitely.

Case in point:

…and so the the real beginning begins beginning again!

The Alberta Rat Wars

Little strong,

I want to agree with you but the South Park IP is worth $1 billion and they made an absolute truckload of money selling the streaming rights to HBO/Paramount because in 1997 they included a clause in their contract that gives them 50% profits from “any non-television broadcast sources.” In other words: streaming. Every stream Matt and Trey are getting fully half the money. They’re literally fucking milking the living shit out of it.

Viacom briefly attempted to argue their way out of the clause, but in the end, Parker and Stone were successful in not only owning a 50% cut of non-broadcast revenue but also in having the right to distribute the show digitally as they saw fit. Once they saw their show being pirated non-stop on YouTube, Matt and Trey decided it would be pointless to fight the pirates, so they put every single episode online for free, earning millions from the digital ad revenue. They really started to cash in with the advent of streaming services like Hulu. When Hulu paid $192 million for 4 years of rights to the back catalogue, Matt and Trey each earned around $50 million. At the time, is was the largest streaming deal in history. In 2019 when the deal was up, HBO Max obtained exclusive streaming rights in a deal that was rumored to be worth $500 million-$550 million.

On August 5, 2021 it was revealed that Matt and Trey had signed a new six-year, $900 million contract with ViacomCBS. Under the deal Matt and Trey will produce six seasons of the show and 14 movies which will be exclusive to streaming service Paramount+.

There’s literally a stream of cartoons with intent to offend as many people as possible. They’re all trash, but let me see how many I can look up real quick starting with dumb shit like Brickleberry or Paradise PD.

Like, literally being as offensive as possible is the entire fucking schtick of Adam Corrolla’s Mr. Birchum, which just came out.

Honestly, the ones that are try-hard offensive fucking fail miserably. There’s a lot of them. Stop pretending that taking risks is all it takes. You also actually have to have a pulse on social issues, which the South Park creators simply no longer do. People can be offensive and not funny. In fact, it’s way easier to just be offensive than it is to be offensive and funny. Most only succeed at being offensive.

Companies want content that enrages people because they know that people get more involved with content they hate than content they love. They absolutely pour money into South Park copycats that try to go “anti-woke.”

When everyone else is trying to appease corporate committees and shareholders

Counterpoint: The money South Park makes by pissing people off directly impacts Comedy Centrals profits. It’s in Comedy Central’s best interest to have South Park be offensive, because attention and engagement is more important in the modern world than whether or not people actually like something. Capital doesn’t give a damn about how they appease corporate committees and shareholders, as long as money is being made: South Park makes money hand-over-fist being offensive. There’s literally been an unending stream of copycat “offensive adult animation” ever since South Park hit the air. They’re emphatically not sticking it to the man. They are the man.

South Park is almost 30 years old. They are the industry. They are still around because they make money. If they actually offended the sensibilities of corporate committees and shareholders, they wouldn’t still be on the fucking air. Both Matt and Trey individually have wealth valued at well over half a billion dollars. Add them both together and you have a billionaire. But sure, they’re still somehow “subversive” with money coming out their fucking ears.

Started strong, ending weak, like most things that stay on the air far beyond their Best By date.

Matt and Trey got old and turned into the same kind of curmudgeons they used to mock.

It happens to everyone, especially when they’ve had fame and money and stop being the punk rock weirdos in the biz. They aren’t the young upstarts pointing out the absurdity of the business anymore, they’re the financial lynchpin of Comedy Central. They’re as important to revenue as shit like the Daily Show. Whether they want to admit it to themselves or not, they’ve grown to become what they hated. As artists working for a big corporation, they represent The Industry.

They don’t think of themselves at the rich corporate tools, but they are whether they think they are or not. The run-ins they’ve had with the staff at Casa Bonita speak to it as well. They’re not actually listening to their workers. Further, no word on whether the people at Casa Bonita are allowed to unionize. Wouldn’t be surprised if Matt and Trey are outright against unionization. “Why would you want to unionize when we’re offering $30 an hour?” Because at some point you can just change your mind about it, like you’ve already changed your mind on your employees once already.

South Park’s real crime was to think they were being subversive and not understanding that Capital doesn’t give a fuck about morals or ethics or who gets made fun of, they only give a fuck about money. If being subversive and making fun of everyone makes money then they’ll back it to hell and back, social consequences be damned. They don’t care if your dumb show makes people think dumb shit, and you don’t get to absolve yourself for it by saying shit like “we think people shouldn’t get their politics from our cartoons.” Sorry, they do get their politics from your cartoon, dumbfucks. You don’t absolve yourself of it by handwaving it away like the people are the problem and not the product you’re creating.

They don’t get to hide from the endless stream of copycat “adult” cartoons that all try to out-offend each other. They’re all trash and none of them have ever equaled what South Park originally brought to the table.

EDIT: Also, they went from being the guys who put all the episodes of their show online, for free, on southpark dot com to the guys who made a deal with Paramount to lock everything behind a paywall. If you want to bitch about how the corporate suits are making PIRACY WORSE because they fail to see that access to their content is a SERVICE PROBLEM, then maybe you need to accept that Matt and Trey are some of those corporate suits.

https://www.wired.com/2008/03/south-park-to-o/

In an appropriately glib statement, Parker and Stone said they were inspired to start the site when they got “really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.”

Interesting how times change and now they’re simply money grubbing assholes that don’t care about locking content behind paywalls? Fuck em. They’re fucking corporate suits like anyone else now. Matt and Trey together have a wealth of over a billion dollars combined, but they don’t have enough money to put the episodes online for free anymore apparently… Suits.

Police hate this one weird trick!

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…I spend a lot of my time thinking while waiting in the drive-thru.

What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.