Sweet jesus, that was insufferable.

Spoilers to save everyone 20 minutes: a professor briefly describes a study meant to measure racial bias, then spends the entirety of the video pressuring 4 (nervous?) students to speculate on the study’s outcome.

He never says whether the study is real or not, or what the outcome was if it were real. The students spend most of the video giving hesitant answers because, obviously, they don’t know. Also, they’re probably not stupid and recognize there’s a high likelihood that the professor is setting up a cute “gotcha!” situation where the study’s outcome is not what one might expect, making anyone who defended the straight-forward answer the butt of a joke in front of all their peers.

The video ends with him finger-wagging at the students for being so hesitant to speculate, insisting that media and culture per-indoctornates them to presume the study would prove racial bias.

Like, WTF bro?

Mounting the OLED cinema display right behind your ultrawide gaming battlestation, then putting your living room couch on the other side of the room is giving me an interior design headache.

For fuck’s sake people…

Here’s the ad: https://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34728882/its-the-most-terrible-time-of-the-year/mcdonalds

Watchmen (2009)

It was the migration from cooking demonstrations to celebrity presence content (Babsih tries every X, Babish ranks every Y).

Cooking demos keep the focus on the food; techniques, presentation, and results. Plus having an entertaining and charismatic host.

Now those videos lean on the now-recognizable host being entertaining and charismatic, and doing… whatever. And it kind of makes sense in a marketplace-y sort of way. I can watch anybody cook, but Babish has the corner on Babish content, so why not lean into that? Also I’m sure the guy gets tired of making the same content over and over again, so he’s trying to find something interesting that catches on.

I see Nat from Nats What I Reckon doing the same thing. And good on them for trying new stuff.

me receiving all those guys nudes

Let me be as clear as I can be.

Trump, a figure visibly and egregiously unfit for the role of leading the nation, was elected by Americans, twice, fair and square by the rules we’ve set for ourselves. But he’s just a figurehead.

Press “freedom” has been hacked by monied interests to capture the minds of a vast margin of the American voting public and brainwash them into distrusting any media but their own, which has taught them to believe lies, parrot talking points and armed them with thought-collapsing rhetoric to disrupt anyone who might help unfuck their poisoned brains. All this has been going on for decades, but the internet really just helped tie it all together, providing the perfect echo chamber that no one ever has to leave.

The net result is a captured government focused on destroying their greatest weakness: agents and sources of truth. Massive media consolidation destroys the national news-gathering apparatus and controls the entertainment diet to restrict subversive content, and the implosion of the department of education ensures more and more future adults will grow up never having had the benefit of a robust education.

So are we fucked? Maybe. But bumping off politicians isn’t the answer.

They are “certificates of authenticity”, a joke on the NFT ownership craze of a while back.

I couldn’t find any photos of them tho.

That’s a surprisingly deep list.

I need this as poster material for the next drag show I’m doing graphics for.

Here’s the video example. (Note: the file upload feature seems to be choking on the file, so download it here instead…)

https://limewire.com/d/rE7IG#3wmSkCbKjJ

not another dragon-fucker

So’s the haircut.

Season 2, episode 1, Be Right Back.

Dandan noodles strike again!

Ok, emails mostly. I have received a few letters though! Public service employers can be old fashioned that way.

I think he can write whatever unenforceable executive orders he wants. Enforcing them could be illegal, which would make them unenforceable executive orders.

Nothing quite crushes the soul like customizing a resume and cover letter for a job at a company, getting turned down via form letter, then see that same job listing posted a week or two later.

Except having every company in town do it to you.

For over two years.

I’ll keep making this argument until its commonly understood: The best B5 viewing order is:

• Seasons 1-4
• Series finale (Season 5, Episode 22, Sleeping in Light)
• The rest of Season 5 (but only if you really want to)

Keep circulating the tapes!