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Are you trying to create an SCP?

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fuck-eyes Squidward definitely does not garner trust in this food product

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Adblock stops ads on Disney+ altogether if you're watching via PC

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Bluesky Users: Not Getting Jokes Since Whenever Bluesky Came Out

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“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

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He's probably still on the toilet.

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It looks like the stains are emanating out from his feet.

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Sex work/abortion/drugs/gender-affirming care/socialized medicine

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Mean to make fun of someone for his appearance after someone repeatedly beat his face with a hammer.

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The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

Clockwise from top left:
1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.”

2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”.

3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.”

4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

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He looks like tall Ellen Degeneres

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God Bless America(2011)

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Are you familiar with the Patriot Act?

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The more this convo goes the less sure I am of my original position, I'll admit. It's interesting to me tho, that they had that conversation that made her look like such a fucking clown and then published it themselves of their own free will. They're either very very stupid or it's a bigger play imo

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100% willing to concede this point. I may be giving her too much credit, but I think it's dangerous to not give these people enough credit.

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I don't think twitter/bluesky replypersons are as representative of a slice of the American voters as you may think.

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I think more people are receptive to operators like her who package neocon strategy into vaguely racist-but-still-resist! digestibles than we'd like to admit. The methods seem stupid and ineffective to us, but so do email/text scams and they produce the majority of some countries GDPs.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Yes, I understand. And what I'm saying is that I don't think it's responsible to keep assuming stupid when malice is increasingly prevalent.

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Of course she is aware. She's not an idiot and it's not exactly hidden information. This is either calculated in an attempt to normalize the "soft" sex pests that the party is inundated with or calculated to attempt something much worse. I'm not above the notion that her team switch might be an op.

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You're maybe being a little too charitable towards a lifelong neocon operator.

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Who else but a sociopath would want that kind of power?

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Tell that to the mayor of New York. Fuck you and the dead-eyed neocon dinosaurs you rode in on.

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Embarrassing

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oil is stored in the balls

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They will further revolutionize drone war crimes and dark money politics

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This is the most delightful thing I’ve ever read

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Claiming addiction without a physiological component is fake is not just blatantly wrong but actively harmful.

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Someone should make a tracker for the amount of money being spent to distract from the Epstein files. $4b today for the moon vanity launch.

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