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ninjewtsu posted:Is op cross posting posts in this thread to cspam too? That'd actually be kind of funny
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Orange Devil posted:Still, everything else aside, who else but John Oliver straight up targets oligarchs with his platform? After 100 years of being trained to be consumers and not think critically, you can lead a populace to information but if it isn’t interesting enough they get distracted.
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Apr 16, 2019 22:22
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Dumb Lowtax posted:As far as I know "the audience" in shows like this is almost entirely a fake concept; they are a group of people being ordered to do things on cue. If the signal says applause they applaud, if it says laugh they laugh. If they make incorrect noise out of turn they get yelled at as one group between takes. They're only allowed to be there because they perform a job. In this case the signal given to the studio audience did not thematically match the delivered line very well, which is a pretty common occurrence on talk shows and makes the "audience" seem mentally off but I believe they're a mostly fictional entity anyway. quote:John Oliver didn’t so much as glance at us, after his pre-show greeting. He sat at his desk and stared straight into a camera lens while reading from a teleprompter, delivering gag after gag as I disappointedly realized that we, the sad sacks in his tiny, tiered amphitheater, were serving as nothing more than a fleshy laugh track. Oliver was squarely focused on his real audience, by which I mean the TV/internet audience out there, instead of on the weirdo shmoes who’d been ushered in to fill up the seats.
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Apr 17, 2019 18:39
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Tickets are free... which I believe is a law for broadcast shows, they cannot charge for tickets. I imagine this is an FCC rule, and likely wouldn’t technically apply to cable shows, since they’re not using the public airwaves and thus aren’t subject to the regulations thereof, but I think all of them give tickets away free, as well. That said, I can’t find any source to back this up.
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Apr 18, 2019 13:08
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Also networks cover sporting contests, they don’t originate them; these games would occur whether or not they were being photographed and transmitted. Which is pretty distinct from a show being performed especially for broadcast. That said, I wonder, the intersection of various stage guild rules and customs notwithstanding, if NBC could, theoretically at least, record and broadcast, say, a Broadway play, filled with ticket-buying spectators?
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Apr 18, 2019 23:56
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someone who isn't stephen fry namely, ryan barger 
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Apr 24, 2019 04:28
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:... Wouldn't Hugh bonneville be more likely?
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Apr 24, 2019 11:43
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:goodbye birbs is on the painting. It's just a co-inky-dink. And this: https://www.pbs.org/video/behind-scenes-hugh-bonneville-isb1gl/ sounds alot more like it. I'm pretty sure barger is the shouty announcer
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Apr 24, 2019 12:50
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The Cheshire Cat posted:The big problem with the Democrats strategy has been that they seem to believe that public opinion is just a weathervane that must be followed rather than something that can be influenced by new information and political events. 
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Jun 19, 2019 23:55
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Mother Jones dived into this back in 2012.quote:Though we’re not paid to be here until 6, we have been informed that we need to arrive at 5. If we don’t show up in time to stand around while they sort out who we are and where they’ve put our ID badges, we could miss the beginning of training, which would mean termination. “I was up half the night because I was so afraid I was going to be late,” a woman in her 60s tells me. quote:The gal conducting our training reminds us again that we cannot miss any days our first week. There are NO exceptions to this policy. She says to take Brian, for example, who’s here with us in training today. Brian already went through this training, but then during his first week his lady had a baby, so he missed a day and he had to be fired. Having to start the application process over could cost a brand-new dad like Brian a couple of weeks’ worth of work and pay. Okay? Everybody turn around and look at Brian. Welcome back, Brian. Don’t end up like Brian. quote:At the announcement to take one of our two 15-minute breaks, we hustle even harder. We pickers close out the totes we’re currently filling and send them away on the conveyor belt, then make our way as fast as we can with the rest of the masses across the long haul of concrete between wherever we are and the break room, but not before passing through metal detectors, for which there is a line—we’re required to be screened on our way out, though not on our way in; apparently the concern is that we’re sneaking Xbox 360s up under our shirts, not bringing in weapons. quote:We run to grab the wheeled carts we put the totes on. We run past each other and if we do say something, we say it as we keep moving. “How’s the job market?” a supervisor says, laughing, as several of us newbies run by. “Just kidding!” Ha ha! “I know why you guys are here. That’s why I’m here, too!” At another near collision between employees, one wants to know how complaining about not being able to get time off went and the other spits that he was told he was lucky to have a job. This is no way to have a conversation, but at least conversations are not forbidden, as they were in the Ohio warehouse I reported on—where I saw a guy get fired for talking, specifically for asking another employee, “Where are you from?” quote:I’ve started cringing every time my scanner shows a code that means the item I need to pick is on the ground, which, in the course of a 10.5-hour shift—much less the mandatory 12-hour shifts everyone is slated to start working next week—is literally hundreds of times a day. “How has OSHA signed off on this?” I’ve taken to muttering to myself. “Has OSHA signed off on this?” (“The thing about ergonomics,” OSHA says when I call them later to ask, “is that OSHA doesn’t have a standard. Best practices. But no laws.”) quote:It’s brave of these women to keep their phones in the break room, where theft is so high—they can’t keep them in their cars if they want to use them during the day, because we aren’t supposed to leave the premises without permission, and they can’t take them onto the warehouse floor, because “nothing but the clothes on your backs” is allowed on the warehouse floor (anything on your person that Amalgamated sells can be confiscated—”And what does Amalgamated sell?” they asked us in training. “Everything!”). quote:I’ll admit that I did start crying a little. Not at work, thankfully, since that’s evidently frowned upon, but later, when I explained to someone over Skype that it hurts, oh, how my body hurts after failing to make my goals despite speed-walking or flat-out jogging and pausing every 20 or 30 seconds to reach on my tiptoes or bend or drop to the floor for 10.5 hours, and isn’t it awful that they fired Brian because he had a baby, and, in fact, when I was hired I signed off on something acknowledging that anyone who leaves without at least a week’s notice—whether because they’re a journalist who will just walk off or because they miss a day for having a baby and are terminated—has their hours paid out not at their hired rate but at the legal minimum. Which in this state, like in lots of states, is about $7 an hour. Thank God that I (unlike Brian, probably) didn’t need to pay for opting into Amalgamated’s “limited” health insurance program. Because in my 10.5-hour day I’ll make about $60 after taxes. I could keep going, but yeah.
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Jul 2, 2019 09:34
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Check this one out: Hiring more people and paying them better will mean less people stealing poo poo because they aren’t hopelessly desperate.
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Jul 4, 2019 22:38
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Phenotype posted:Yeah, if we're talking about nationalizing big corporations Amazon is way down the list. Comcast and ATT are the two big targets there.
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Jul 10, 2019 22:06
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Azhais posted:Just be sure to have one of these for dessert 2. imgur has been amazingly bullish in making themselves as unsavory to use as an image host as is humanly possible  Basically: We’re not asking. You will use this as a social media platform, or you won’t use this. Hopefully tomorrow I can still load the desktop version on mobile
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Jul 31, 2019 10:31
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Cocktail sauce is mainly ketchup, horseradish, worcestershire, and lemon juice. Perfectly reasonable flavours for a crisp. More likely the revulsion is a reaction to the word “prawns.”
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Aug 2, 2019 10:44
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I appreciated the Belle and Sebastian nod.
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Aug 14, 2019 04:45
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Fantastic ad in August 20 issue of Variety
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Sep 7, 2019 00:17
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i have push notifications turned off for nearly everything, same with location services. I get notifications for Messenger, IMs, podcasts, and emails. tsob posted:Then again, I also have essentially never curated my general email account and there are over 10,000+ unread emails there. Which doesn't bother my rear end none, because anything important is going to be near the top anyway, I can favorite/star anything actually important and search exists if I want to find something older than a few weeks.  
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Jan 21, 2020 11:47
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Shitlibs 2020: Better Things Aren’t Possible
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Feb 10, 2020 08:06
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Oliver, Meyers, and Colbert need to throw money at the Some More News guy to coach them on being funny without a live audience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDgE1rcEoA
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Mar 16, 2020 13:21
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Hakkesshu posted:I don't think Oliver is particularly funny but whoa man neither is that fuckin guy I’ll update my logs, ty
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Mar 16, 2020 19:20
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mobby_6kl posted:I've only heard of ONN through posts here so seeing it live was...ugh. It's incredibly disturbing that these people not only have access to are president but also a non-zero audience. OAN. ONN is Onion News Network, an organization of greater repute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvzw7MOFhQo
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Apr 7, 2020 04:33
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Anyone but Bernie was going to lose. Everything is hosed. But it is so especially bad with vice President Uh My Boss LastGuy Raprock You Know The Thing Sundown. We are so so hosed
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Apr 14, 2020 23:19
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SlothfulCobra posted:The judicial system has blocked the executive branch a bunch of times, but the republicans stacked the supreme court with rapists that the democrats failed to meaningfully challenge. Shoulda told the dems that Kavanaugh supported Medicare for All
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Apr 25, 2020 22:41
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Josh Lyman posted:It's not just the poors freeloading but also "drat, if I could own the USPS, maybe I could finally be as rich as Bezos!" It’s mainly this, the 2006 bill was a tactic known as “starve the beast.” Making them have 75 goddamned years of benefits on hand was explicitly to break them, so that the commentariat could point to the now-floundering service and bellow: “See?! The government is incompetent! Only the glorious free market can innovate!” Hard to say that the government service is bad if they’re well in the green every year. So they put an unrealistic burden on them to make what’s happening now possible. The whole thing about raising rates and Amazon is just blather to cover their end-game. Note that John didn’t mention removal of the ridiculous funding requirements as a solution to the problem.
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May 12, 2020 06:59
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Dallas’s Edit: On-topic, i bought two sets of stamps last night. I’d been meaning to buy a sheet the past few weeks anyway to help support the PO, this was too good to pass up. Glad I’m financially able to do so.
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May 13, 2020 00:01
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Ap Style Guide posted:When creating the possessive form of nouns, there are eight simple rules: So basically, Josh Lyman posted:It depends on the style guide you're following but both are acceptable. Edit: I need to buy a more current AP style guide, those mid-90s references are a trip though The last one really wraps around back to the topic at hand, haha. pwn fucked around with this message at 01:47 on May 13, 2020 |
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May 13, 2020 01:45
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SlothfulCobra posted:There's an annoying thing where for some reason so much professional media refuses to assign malicious motivations to the most obvious goddamn plots, so they're left doing these elaborate shows of idiocy because they can't let themselves be seen as one of those crazy conspiracy theorists. I think they (Oliver, Colbert, et al) feel that if they don’t act cynical, cooler heads will prevail. Or they have terminal brainworms. Six of one, etc. Cody Johnston is the cynic you’re looking for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfIsuMmncm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQ4Cm9gYv4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn1zQiwVBJY
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May 13, 2020 06:32
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 The post office bending and ruining the commemorative stamps i bought to help save the post office is probably the most post office thing pwn fucked around with this message at 02:35 on May 24, 2020 |
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May 24, 2020 00:47
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This week’s episode coincides with this fantastic and thoroughly depressing article in this week’s unusually-good issue of the New Yorker Punishment by Pandemic: In a penitentiary with one of the U.S.’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences. Seriously, go out and buy this.  (Closer look)
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Jun 23, 2020 04:46
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That guy with his homemade armour is still a national hero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4HJAm0xrF0 But the inverse thereof
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Jul 3, 2020 10:23
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Tiggum posted:dignity This is why I loathe the Tiny Houses thing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xwJvrWRRxg Do you want to sleep in a cutesified shed? Yes it is better than a bench, or a tent, or even a shelter, but that it is humiliating is the point. You don’t deserve dignity. You haven’t earned it. Yeah I guess I’d rather sleep in a Shame Shed than under a bridge, and maaaaybe instead of my car, but you could just let people live in actual loving buildings, too.
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Jul 4, 2020 09:23
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tsob posted:It's definitely too radical for me, because I literally have no idea what would even mean. I would assume it means something like "a house no longer has a value", but then, how do you even convince people to build and maintain them en masse, if doing so doesn't have any economic return? Because we like to live in houses?
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Jul 6, 2020 10:28
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I remember him from High Spirits, which is also my main exposure to Peter O’Toole and Daryl Hannah (before Kill Bill anyway.)
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Everyone needs to read the Atlantic piece. The Election That Could Break America “If you are a voter, think about voting in person after all. More than half a million postal votes were rejected in this year’s primaries, even without Trump trying to suppress them. If you are at relatively low risk for COVID-19, volunteer to work at the polls. If you know people who are open to reason, spread word that it is normal for the results to keep changing after Election Night.”
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Sep 29, 2020 08:57
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Xealot posted:Fight Club gives me way more of a Gen-X vibe. Millennials were 10-15 at the time, so I can definitely see your point. Fight Club came out in 1999, the youngest Millennial was -5 and the oldest was 17, so it definitely fits, but agreed, as a Millennial who was 17 at the time, it felt like it was appealing to the generation before me, who were all about grunge at the start of the decade and had become disillusioned office drones by the end of it.
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“The mad king president is replacing the top pentagon officials so that he can fire sale the government,” he tells himself as he sweats through four layers of clothing This is really Cool, and Normal, and Doesn’t Happen Here
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Nov 11, 2020 23:06
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For a “fun” game, imagine the alternate timeline where President Clinton conceded the election last week to whatever Trump-but-competent horror emerged from the mists this cycle after being drubbed for the nearly 2 dozen American COVID-19 deaths on her watch, and the draconian lockdowns she instituted back in January that mildly inconvenienced American travelers but few others, about which FOX News et al screamed about like Benghazi times 100 for the past year.
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Nov 17, 2020 11:04
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I long for vicious crackdowns on non-compliant anti-maskers tbh
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:You could buy real chips. Zapp’s are real chips, op
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Simone Magus posted:Related, why do Americans pronounce it "sir-racha"???? Because we’re bad at pronouncing non-English words and worse at taking any criticism of our speech A white lady named Karen coined, “Language is always evolving”
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