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Which is worse: Friends or Seinfeld?

I am the age of the target audience for both of these programs when they came out. I found Seinfeld completely unwatchable contemporaneously. It has perhaps the worst laugh track in the history of TV programming. Same obviously fake laughing for stupid stuff that is not even worth a snicker as for the rare thing that was actually funny. I didn't care for it at all and never understood why it was so popular.

Friends annoyed me for different reasons, mostly because the characters lived so far beyond their means that it was immersion breaking.

They both suck, but Seinfeld sucks more.

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Exxon warns of record low oil inventory from the war

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I'm afraid we have already missed the window due to feedback loops. Demand destruction is necessary mass suffering. The normalcy bias makes it hard to see the imminent lack of food from crop failure, loss of mechanized farming, loss of affordable shipping, loss of fertilizer feed stock, etc. I expect a lot of "why didn't the scientists warn us that it would be this bad this quickly?" and "God is punishing us for treating the lgbtq like humans (or whatever other religious nonsense)."

We won't get a livable biosphere by choice but maybe in the post-Malthusian collapse something sort of sustainable will emerge. Unprecedented suffering first though.

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They're making takedown claims

I think filing a fraudulent DMCA takedown should be a felony and the ceo of the organization that filed is the presumptive fraudster unless he can prove that his employee filed it against his explicit order not too. Also, a DMCA notice should be invalid and ignored unless signed by the criminally responsible CEO.

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Art of the deal

"We're not allowed to just straight out ask for a bribe, so you have to figure that out on your own and give us the money under the table."

"Did you stay at a Trump branded hotel ofr this trip? That'd be a start."

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Trump blames DC air crash on workers with "severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, or other mental or physical conditions"

Timeline:

Jan 20 - Federal Aviation Administration Director fired.

Jan. 21 - Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen

Jan. 22 - Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded

Jan. 28 - Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees

Jan. 29 - first American mid-air collision in 16 years

By golly, Trump is actually correct. Someone with severe intellectual disabilities did fuck us over.

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What's the worst invention of the 21st century?

Separate apps for various retail stores. I don't want a home depot app. I don't want a kroger app. We have a generic app for this category called a web browser. If you want me to download a specialized app for your store, I assume that means that my browser does not sufficiently breach my privacy for your "business purposes."

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My Tesla Cybertruck Got Totaled After It Was Sideswiped by an E-Scooter. All-in, I paid $198K, but Insurance is Only Offering Me a “Fair Market Value” of $77K. I Still Owe the Bank $171,500

How the hell did a scooter do 77k of damage (or more)? Was it fired out of a rail gun? Did the rider survive? Do they need help?

Most likely explanation: had to wait for the cop to do a police report and got caught out in the rain and forgot to activate car wash mode.

Perfectly reasonable and normal for a scooter to destroy a giant pickup. Was the scooter made by space x?