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Little bit of everything!

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Gaming (Mass Effect, Witcher, and too much Satisfactory)

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I live for 90s TV sitcoms

  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • King of the Hill is pretty dry in the first season. It has some good jokes, sets up the premise, but it's hard to "get it". The humor is very dry, and to some I assume it's easy to take it as "It's some uptight white guy who likes his job I guess".

    Texas City Twister is when all of a sudden the humor just made sense to me. Still very dry humor, but it was so funny. So many great jokes.

    Sir if you're calling me a liar you better be holding something stronger than an umbrella. 9 iron ...Y'all have a nice day

    I can't live in a beer can I can live in a trailer but I don't have a trailer because the trailer tipped over!

    Speaking of Hell, if I wasn't so in control of my emotions I might be so inclined to suggest that's the sort of place making a.. a visit towards!

    Fuel Filters?! Honey quick that jackass is buying all the fuel filters! I need a fuel filter what are they for I need one!

    I love you! And Bobby! And Luanne! To a lesser extent!

    All of these are 100% out of context, but it just hits everything that makes king of the hill funny. Everything is so tongue-in-cheek

  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • American Dad is so underrated. Seth McFarlane is very funny, but you can tell that Fox saw Family Guy taking off and basically took it away from him, and he knew there was no sense in fighting it. But he started American Dad, and that's where you can really see his comedy come through.

    So many great episodes. In Country... Club is probably my all-time-favorite. So many others though, Irregarding Steve, The Abusive Terrestrial, The Vacation Goo, Spring Breakup, and Shallow Vows. And really anything with Roger

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  • As someone else already tried that argument, I'll say the same thing. We do have the same culture. Sure there are minor differences, but we all celebrate thanksgiving, christmas, there's always a Target nearby and there's always an auto mile. It's all the same. Nowhere in the US, except I would consider Hawaii as a maybe, do you actually experience fully a different culture, to be in complete culture shock, where things you know as concrete and rigid are thrown out the window.

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  • You would be my prime example of someone then who should, because I also thought I didn't care until I was fully immersed. And no, going to a grocery store is not immersing yourself.

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  • I think you might have a bias in there as well then, because I got out of my small town, and I agree that very few make it out physically or culturally, and they are like black holes.

    However I was never punished, or harassed. I had people make fun of me, question me, give me weird faces as to why I would want to leave, but never anything extreme like you're saying. I think you may represent the other extreme side.

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  • All of them (save Hawaii in my experience, and I've been to each of those locations except Florida) have the same culture though. Americanized culture. You don't go only to see things, but to experience how other people live. Experiencing their way of life, their daily patterns and ways of doing things. Hawaii you get barely a taste of that, but you don't see it until you actually get out. Canada even has a slightly different culture and worth seeing, and then it only grows from there.

    As for cost I chose my wording based on Disney World for a reason. A week's trip to Disney World is wildly more expensive than going abroad. My (mid-sized American city) plane ticket to London was $800 for the round trip. Hotels about 150 a day. Food was cheaper than eating fast food here in the states. It takes less than you'd think, especially if you're doing it your own way.

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  • It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

    I think that initial fear keeps many people from trying, but once you try it you want to see more. I've only scratched the surface with a few countries, and already it's just amazing how other people live. I think it's stunning how people can assume that the way they were born inn that town and with those morals are the "right" way to live. If I was born in the exact same family but 5000 miles away, I would have been completely different, and who knows what "right" would have been.

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  • I live in America, so naturally my experiences with this are going to be American. I'm sure if I lived in another country it would be focused around that one.

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  • How people have grown up and lived their entire lives in a small town. Aka proudly only being in one area of our very large world, and it shows with their views how narrow minded people can be.

    < 50% of Americans have a passport. Even fewer have actually used it to travel outside of the country.

    Not saying you have to take a lavish European getaway, but maybe instead of going to Disney World for the third time, go to minimum Canada or something and experience something different.

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  • I saw one of my old friends was proposed to in front of her now fiance's Dodge truck. He was wearing camo. She said yes!. Jesus Christ talk about lacking a personality.

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  • Yup, that's what I was taught too. Midwest ultra conservative area. You can't argue science with them because they aren't in a science state of mind. To them science is only trying to disprove God, that's the only purpose. It wasn't until much later that I learned that science doesn't care about god, and that spirituality can ebb and flow with science.

  • Please Explain Polymarket like I'm 5 and how it all started.

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  • You remember those bets you'd make with your idiot high school friends?

    Well, now you can actually put real money on those bets. You can lose your entire life savings betting on Taylor Swift's color scheme at her wedding, or if a celebrity has a meltdown within the next 6 months.

    Yes, it's quite a society we've built.

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  • We stayed out all night looking for all you can eat fish restaurants.

  • What does it mean when a social media is open source?

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  • Not true, because anyone else can spin up their own instance and see them too. Nothing is private here, on purpose.

  • What does it mean when a social media is open source?

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  • Everything on Lemmy should be considered open and readable.

  • NCIS 2 IDIOTS 1 KEYBOARD

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  • Oh but your mom/grandma loved this scene. Hahahaha oh Gibbs so smart, just unplug the computer dummy dummies!

    Reality: They're both frantically typing on separate machines trying to figure put who is downloading their data, and are trying to lock the account they got access to.

    Gibbs: Unplugs their computers

    McGee: uh, what the hell boss, you know they're in our servers, our infra, tearing through erasing data, why would you think that they're hacking on our local workstations?! You do know you just killed our access, right? Now no one's trying to stop them! Kindly leave the room, we'll need to have a full escalation and postmortem, unfortunately now I'll need to involve our entire chain of command.

  • What would be your opinion on a lemmy/piefed instance that's run like Athen democracy?

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  • What?? I'm genuinely confused, I got an email that said they were ending it, I'll try to dig it up

  • What would be your opinion on a lemmy/piefed instance that's run like Athen democracy?

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  • Cloudflare actually stopped their service. If you come up with another let us know

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  • Simply that as I grow older I have learned that nuance doesn't exist on the internet. A human is boiled down to a few lines of text in a comment. That comment becomes everything the other human knows about them.

    Nuance is knowing that humans are capable of holding two separate beliefs, for example that I can believe that the sex industry is exploitative, and also admit that this is funny, and know that those two things don't contradict each other.

    It's the same argument to me of How I Met Your Mother's character, Barney. A sexist pig who in all sense of the word is a horrible human being. A binary approach to life says you can never watch the show or laugh at the jokes because he is in there. A nuanced approach is being able to watch and enjoy it, while also knowing that he's a horrible character, and we should probably make it clear we don't want more sitcom characters like him.

    However, like I said, virtue signalling is important to many people, they have to know that you know how moral they are. To me, we're all very complex shades of grey, and I'm completely okay with admitting that things are more complex than a comment can express. Yes, I know the irony of this comment

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  • To me the meme is just plain silly. That's the point, it's ridiculous, and with the NSFW twist it makes it fun. But yes, I agree, on the internet if you see someone working in the sex industry you see everyone virtue signalling that there are problems with the sex industry, and no one can have fun without everyone being made aware that even acknowledging that the industry exists makes you a horrible evil human being.