Karl Pilkignton is an eccentric dude, but he’s not stupid. He was head of production at XFM when he met Ricky Gervais, the person he was on screen on Idiot was part of a character he developed while doing Ricky Gervais’ radio show.

Yeah he’s that person, the character is based on him cause Ricky and Steve Merchant found his behavior hilarious. But he was already successful when he started it, and all the shit about him not waiting to come back was for more seasons was BS. He had revenue share from the beginning, that show was stupid business for them and Sky One.

You can see his real acting right after Idiot ended on Derek. Then he came back to Sky One to do more “Karl” work on Moaning Life. Then he did a truly scripted version of his Karl character on Sick of It.

Trust me, he’s is and was in on it.

Sometimes for the Japanese, the person you are replying to is right. America had a super sketchy relationship with Japanese POWs, the largest sea rescue was like Midway, I think America saved maybe 2 Japanese pilots who would end up being POWs and like a few dozen Japanese ship engineers.

That’s with us really looking for Americans in the water, because the according to reports (you gotta take these with a grain of salt, maybe a whole silo sometimes) the Japanese got ahold of 3 Americans, tortured and killed them.

Americans were absolutely going out of their way to capture nazi POWs, and other axis groups. Not the Japanese tho.

Your overall vibe, I’ve seen it too but only when someone realized they’ve been throwing their time in the bottomless pit of a disordered mind. Like a fedora on the side of a trashcan, it’s a sign someone took control of their life back.

Seems like you might be encountering it enough in response to your responses that it’s annoyed you. Otherwise I can’t imagine any other reaction than moving on with my life.

It’s legit offputting, but when you’re on YouTube it makes sense to play that game. Following a thumbnail meta will get your video more engagement, they even allow A/B testing of thumbnails to find the best performing one. YT is as much a thumbnail platform as it is a video one, and I’m only being slightly hyperbolic.

Huh, you might be a loser who keeps getting blocked then.

It’s still occasionally used, but man it’s an archaic reference!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner

You’ve moved my opinion on this definitely, I have never been inside that world, but I engage with it all the time because of my work.

Rather than being something strange and wrong, it’s just a thing that works, and that’s why you guys adopt it. Like rubber duck programming.

Oh no, I’m the first person who told you this behavior is weird huh. I’m sorry.

It’s not an immigration crackdown, they’ve made it very clear that we in the US are engaged in ethnic cleansing. Really nakedly, quiet part out loud, no dog whistles needed, ethnic cleansing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

Sure, I might even give those people some grace over the people who use it cause they want to be Jared Leto, or one of Jared Leto’s sex cult friends in the book.

It’s actually still a red flag, unfortunately. The only people who use Grok have a terrible understanding of other people, like the dude in this article. That’s part of the problem. Either you’re jumping off the same bridge as your weirdo colleagues, you identify with the nudist-cult Martian, or you have such trouble being understood, or understanding neurotypical people, you think you need a new word.

It’s like people who use Na’vi, you can make up anything and say it’s anything and people who have trouble with reality will identify themselves by using that nonsense in normal conversation. You’re never gonna make fetch happen, it’s just tedious.

There is no problem with having read the book, there’s no problem with liking it. I did both, the first time i read it I thought it was cool. I’m more taking about people who made the nude sex cult book part of their personality enough to use the word grok unironically.

People using the word “grok” has always been a red flag. The people who read stranger in a strange land and identified with it so much they started using the word are fucking weirdos. The book is about a child adopted by Martians who inherited their reality-bending mind powers, comes back to earth as an adult and creates a nudist sex cult. Basically Jared Leto. I’m not joking, that’s the book.

It was always elder developers who didn’t wear shoes and had trouble with personal space.

I’m sorry, that’s totally fair, I don’t mean to sound dickish. They can’t hit zero. Australia is a model for how bad invasive cats can get, and the cat is already out of the bag, so to speak. They either target aggressive goals, which are primarily culling mixed with chemical and some limited physical spay/neutering programs. But when you are talking bang for buck, it’s really easy to look to culling primarily.

Spay nueter programs are much more expensive and usually donor funded. You gotta do a lot to an animal to even modestly safely remove it’s sex organs, especially females. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pop up in NZ, privately funded, in addition to the other programs. Desexing is still is the best way to deal with an active colony with a food source, you are right.

That’s when you are trying to control the population. These are invasive species, worse than that, invasive predators. Eradication and control are two different things.

Neither of those solves the problem entirely, but an eradication aims to keep the population of invasive species much lower than control. Any amount of invasive predators, especially as effective as feral cats, needs to be controlled.

Feral cats and pet cats are just two different things, like feral pigs and wild pigs. Even pet cats need to be tightly controlled, every bird a pet cat kills is multiplied in aggregate, these things we love are absolutely brutal.

They totally do, obviously. But, I don’t know what to tell you, if a person is so stupid they don’t see people mentioning Fetterman’s stroke based heel turn since it happened, it says more about that person. If you didn’t notice, you might either not be paying attention, or you are being purposefully obtuse, no one forgot Fetterman’s conservative stroke. Are you an aussie? That would def explain it.

https://lemmy.world/post/38752862

These comments are the same comments I’ve been seeing on posts mentioning Fetterman for years. People hate John Fetterman. I’m also people.

That’s called a frequency illusion, you saw something and now you are noticing mentions of that thing everywhere. Isn’t the human mind amazing! I have a friend who thinks the number 42 is stalking her.

Anywho, I don’t know how you can forget that Fetterman was a progressive who stroked out and came back a republican. He still has an audio processing disorder from it.

Lmao, this is almost defamation against Fetterman! He may have changed his whole personality after his stroke, but at least he wasn’t a former mercenary with a totenkopf tattoo.

Not enough people know about how fucking sick and gross the Kennedy retirement was. Between nepotism and blackmail. Thanks for spreading the word.

Like a lot of what you’re saying is not arguable. But democrats lose for the same reason that republicans lose. Because the voter base is selfish, fickle, and tends to be driven by political trends which swing from “white liberal” left to the equivalent of that on the right.

The US will jump between trend driven politics and will vote for the person who meets the majority of people’s ideals.

If you have to vote perfectly every time or else you’ll lose your rights, they aren’t rights. They are privileges afforded to you by the ruling class in power. That clearly includes the Supreme Court. All this period in time is doing is reminding us we aren’t actually free people.

Maybe we’re closer to Yeoman than Serfs, but unless you have real money, you aren’t a part of the team.