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by mbg721 4y ago
Breathed was always hyper-conscious of selling out in the comics industry and elsewhere; his approach was just to create Bill the Cat as an anti-Garfield. It was only later that irony became the only thing that sells.
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by mbg721 4y ago
I don't know about that; the corporations certainly think they won, but I'm more inclined to believe they already killed the golden goose. There's no money in top-40 payola; the time to the grocery store soundtrack has never
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by mbg721 4y ago
How do QR codes compare for reliability and versatility?
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by mbg721 4y ago
What is the practical difference between Koine and Attic Greek? Is one more academic and the other more colloquial?
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by mbg721 4y ago
You gotta bring up Taft again?? Geez,
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by mbg721 4y ago
It was newsworthy for at least a few months. Stranger Things is probably their strongest association, though.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The pro-life sarcastic riff on this would be that if only most aborted babies were black, the law would enthusiastically permit their deaths. Oh, wait...
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by mbg721 4y ago
People vote for Democrats for all sorts of crazy reasons, including agreement with one of their many policy platforms. People also vote for Republicans for reasons that aren't "I'm a fascist".
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by mbg721 4y ago
Wow, of all the historical ironies...
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by mbg721 4y ago
"Cuties" still became their public face. I'd give individuals a pass for obliviousness, but not a media company that's in the business of public opinion.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Pope Francis is also accused of being a shill for both sides.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Shakespeare is pop-culture. Is understanding old pop-culture important? I think it is. Opera and epic poems work the same way.
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by mbg721 4y ago
That principle certainly applies to spam. The messages there are "I want to sell you something," and "I am not particularly interested in buying that thing."
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by mbg721 4y ago
For what it's worth, a major source of annoyance for traditionalist Catholics is that there are many people who identify themselves as Catholic but don't subscribe to the more controversial moral teachings of the Church. It'
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by mbg721 4y ago
It's like the minimum wage; nobody actually does it.
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by mbg721 4y ago
The more frightening thing is how many middlemen's costs are baked in. Of course insurers aren't sitting around twirling their moustaches, figuring out how to be incrementally more evil; but they are spending astronomical amoun
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by mbg721 4y ago
"Cultural" cuisine is food meant for big-time holidays. Nobody thinks it's a good idea to have Thanksgiving dinner every single day.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Yeah, but I don't think they would let that get in the way of an inflammatory pun.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Is that actually more true now than it was in, say, the 1950s, or is it just that pessimism is the preferred way for educated people to fit in?
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by mbg721 4y ago
If I know my UK newspapers, their only regret is that it wasn't caused by payload, so that they could say "Junk in the Trunk".
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by mbg721 4y ago
That's the main criticism of NBC's Olympics coverage even now; we're still fed only edited highlights when there's no longer a technical reason to do so.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Another notable thing on TV was ABC's Wide World of Sports; if you wanted to see anything outside the Big Four of North American sports plus bowling, golf, and horse/auto racing--(say, curling or rodeo stuff or water-skiing), they
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by mbg721 4y ago
I have noticed that when I spend a lot of time reading dystopian fiction, the sense of despair from that dystopia creeps into how I react to real-life. Not all fiction seems to work like that for me, but that style in particular leaves me
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by mbg721 4y ago
I think I agree with this; the usual clichés about regret place a sort of bias towards how one feels at the end of one's life, but just because it's the last opinion doesn't necessarily mean it should win.
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by mbg721 4y ago
You're also comparing the biggest cities to each other. If you compared say, Lafayette, LA to Montpelier, VT to Las Cruces, NM, you might draw a different conclusion.
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by mbg721 4y ago
LA is also about 500 square miles to SF's 50, isn't it?
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by mbg721 4y ago
In the 1850s, I believe there was a serious political party with some concern that Pius IX would use Irish immigrants to dig a tunnel from Rome to Washington and send the Swiss Guards in to take over America.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Even if it was taken in the last two weeks? This ruling was the worst-kept secret in SCOTUS history.
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by mbg721 4y ago
Everyone in the US seems to be; it's a national sport.
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by mbg721 4y ago
In the US, I remember when the "wide-mouth can" gimmick became popular; nearly all the soda and beer brands adopted it at exactly the same time, because there's really only one supplier of aluminum-can-tops. I would expect t

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