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So just so I can kill the joke, the story behind why we still use freedom units is actually interesting, in my opinion. No one WANTED to change to metric. No dipshit is counting crows being like "if only I could have a metric system" when they've used "12 doogles per 7 doggles" their entire life. People are familiar with how many doogles go into a doggle. Why did the US keep using doogles per doggle measurements? Democracy. Every other country changed to metric by means of "WE'RE CHANGING THIS, GO FUCK YOURSELVES UNTIL YOU LEARN THE NEW SYSTEM." In the US, a full adoption of metric would have necessarily involved a majority of people voting to do it, which no one ever did. Go to a local council meeting and bring it up, you'll get candy-ass Jerry telling you to stuff your liters up your ass. The only country that really democratically shifted to metric was Canada in 1975, and that was the closest Canada ever came to a revolution. Not a revolution *for* metric, mind you, we're talking about a revolution *against* metric. People hated that shit. But like 40% of the population wanted to switch to metric because big daddy Britain did it, and that was enough to get people on board. Now Canada has the worst of both worlds. They still use imperial for all kinds of shit. Britain actually also uses both imperial and metric for different purposes, come to think of it. One thing people tried to switch to metric that never caught on was the calendar. They tried switching to a metric calendar in France after the Revolution. They actually did use a metric calendar until Napoleon switched it back because he was a closeted bourgeoisie. Under the revolutionary metric calendar, a week was 10 days, every day was 10 hours, each hour was 100 minutes, each minute was 100 seconds. They still had 12 months, though, for some reason... I mean, you almost committed 100%, why fumble the ball at the 2 yard line?

Honestly, I started watching it during lockdown because I was making fucking sourdough and shit just like everyone else, but the show actually became one of my favorite shows. Even though I haven't touched an oven in 3 years except for heating frozen pizzas (lockdowns were almost 4 years ago now, fuck your brain's sense of time) Seriously, though, the show takes everything you like about reality television (competition, heightened drama, confessional cameras), but the people are just... normal people. Rather than have the one token ugly person for ugly-people representation every year, it's kind of the opposite. They have the one conventionally attractive person every year, and sometimes that person doesn't make it very far.

Okay, unlike you soft pieces of shit, I have watched every single episode of Survivorman, including the director commentaries. I could whip up a lean-to shelter and make a fire from a fire bow with no problem whatsoever. I've seen it done on TV many, many times. ... fucking mooks.

They really did manage to get all of the cheap thrills of reality television without all of the toxic bullshit that almost always accompanies reality television. There really is nothing else like it. God fucking forbid they ever make an American Baking Show. It'll have a bunch of knock off super models saying "I dIdN'T cOmE hErE tO mAke FrIeNdS, I cAmE hEre tO wIn" and be sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends.

I thought it it as something that you still want to watch for little "ooh that was cool" moments, not necessarily because the plot is particularly compelling. I watched it in theaters and I kind of forgot what it was about halfway through.

It's wild to me that he's only 9 years older than my dad. I've thought about him as old for my entire life.

We call these "character building exercises."

In the before times, I was a prevalent user of Scott's Cheap Flights. When I went to Italy, I wasn't when planning on going to Italy. I just got a notification for a round trip LA-Rome trip for like $500 around the time I was trying to book a vacation, so I was like...I guess I'm going to rome. Turns out I love Rome. I didn't think I would. Rome was far more dope than Florence.

Nah, dude, second story R is a full remake, they just kept the sprite characters. Literally everything else was fully remade. They even retooled the gameplay a bit.

Warm Bodies

Miniminuteman is great. I actually did not find him through shorts, I found him through his "I watched ancient apocalypse so you don't have to" series.

That's how they get you. Who doesn't want to watch clips of Aubrey Plaza being ridiculously charming? Before you know it, you're being fed election denial.

RIP Hodge Twins

I've never been on tik Tok unless I get linked to something. I'm on YouTube all the time, but I have over a decade of not watching alt right shit, so I feel like I'm somewhat shielded from it. I only used Facebook for like a year before it ruined my relationship with my mom, then she died and I was like "maybe this isn't a good thing." My reddit feed is almost entirely commie propaganda, and while I know there are right wing corners of Reddit, you kind of have to seek it out. HOWEVER, over the last few months I've started consuming more YouTube Shorts. It's become my primary media consumption when I'm on a smoke break at work. For those who don't know, YouTube Shorts is their version of TikTok. What do I like to watch on YouTube Shorts? Mostly cute animal videos, music videos, and bits of stand up. That's all. The ultimate "I'm on a 5 minute break and just want to watch an animal make a cute noise" kind of content. It only took a couple months for the YouTube algorithm to start playing alt-right shit for me. It started with Dave Chappelle clips. Because, love him or hate him... He's pretty fucking funny. Then it started playing me Bill Burr clips, but ONLY the clips where he's being super edge-lordy about beating women. I've seen Bill Burr many times, he pretty much perfectly toes that line - the nuance gets lost when you boil his jokes down into a clip that says "maybe he women are asking for it" I now get shit pumped into me YouTube Shorts feed that literally has black men telling me racism isn't real. Black people just have a victim mentality and it's their fault they can't get good jobs. The extra problem is that Google doesn't seem to give a shit whether I disliked content or not. I watched the entire 1:15 clip and didn't skip, so CLEARLY I want to watch more of that content. Forget the fact that I don't realize whether something is garbage content until I'm already done watching it - that doesn't matter. The algorithm says I watched the whole thing, therefore that is what I want to see. Think about it. I'm probably one of the most anti-capitalist people you know. I'm a fucking pinko through-and-through. Yet within a couple months, I'm getting fed content that emphasizes white male victimhood and the potential collapse of the unsustainable Capitalist economy.

I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but fuck my ass I have eaten so much salty stuff in one sitting while stoned that I woke up with my feet swollen. Yes, that's a thing that happens when you eat ridiculous amounts of salt.

Y'all gotta walk more fam

Forgive me if I pretty much never take you seriously

I don't know, I just don't find it funny considering my own addiction issues.

With his past, he doesn't need to have been on drugs when this happened, and there's no reason to immediately assume that. Long term abuse is something you can't really heal fully. I don't like the assumption that "he must have been high again." Maybe he was. It's' like the singer of Sum 41 recently who was hospitalized with pneumonia. Dude's been sober for almost a decade, but his body is fucked. (by the way he appears to have made a recovery). Your liver and your kidneys (your body's main line of defense after your skin) get so fucked that common illnesses become a big deal. Your liver will heal itself over time, but your kidneys kinda don't. When your kidneys don't work so well, it puts extra stress on the heart, which opens you up for heart failure at a younger age.

I forgot he was in the race.

JFKs assassination is one of the only conspiracy rabbit holes that makes me think "there was a lot of smoke for there to have been no fire.". Could I tell you who did it or why? No! There were lots of powerful people who had lots of reasons to want him dead. The mafia, the segregationists (which would make it delicious that LBJ pulled a 180 on them and passed every civil rights bill), the Communists, who the hell knows. To be honest I'm also at this point fairly confident that the FBI killed MLK. There is so much about his assassination that screams "someone with authority made sure he would be at a certain place at a certain time." Like even the hotel room he normally booked was basically taken and they only had ONE other room left, and across from that room this new bush magically appeared that just so happened to be a perfect cover of someone may have wanted to shoot MLK and get away with it. While at the same time the FBI was trailing MLKs every move. And also he was getting increasingly more socialist.

If that's a thing, I will take up that mantle.

You're right. There's a part of me that wants to put LBJ right up with Teddy as the best president ever because of what he did for civil rights. Like if the Vietnam war never happened, he would be right up with Teddy and Lincoln. But the Vietnam war DID happen, and he was a major part of it.