through phone if you have a phone on your water account

To be fair, that should cover like 95% of people. Very rare these days to be able to set up a utility WITHOUT a phone number.

I’ve gotten really into Lemaitre, they’re a Norwegian electronic duo thas kind of in between Avicii and Daft Punk, as far as sound goes. To me at least, they’re incredible. Their song Reflection came on my playlist one day and… Man, you ever hear a song and just immediately know you’re going to listen to it on repeat for the next week? Then I checked out more of their songs and immediately listened to those on repeat as well.

I never hear anyone talking about them though. It’s crazy to me they’re not more popular. Their music just seems to push a button in my brain.

I say this to people and then always have to clarify:

It’s not that the World War Z movie is a bad adaptation of the book, it’s that it’s NOT an adaptation of the book at all. Other than the name, and the fact that it has zombies, there are literally no similarities between the book and the movie.

The characters are different, the settings are different, the format is different, the plot is different, the way the zombies act is different. Literally EVERYTHING.

Calling it an adaptation is like if you took The Neverending Story and changed its title to The Lord of The Rings and called that an adaptation.

It’s a relief valve. Sometimes when I find myself overwhelmed and feel like I want to collapse, I’ll go watch a bunch of emotional videos to make myself bawl for an hour or two. It’s extremely cathartic, and I usually feel a lot better afterwards.

My go-to videos are Thai commercials on YouTube. Short, super heart-wrenching, and unimportant enough that I don’t feel bad afterwards like if I watched a sad movie like Schindler’s List or Grave of the Fireflies.

Henchmen.

The best example I can give is 21 and 24 in The Venture Bros. Just two grunts following their supervillain boss and surviving through their knowledge of tropes. It’s fun to look into the lives of the faceless goons of villains. See what they do in downtime, or what they talk about during an operation, or how they respond to their boss’s insane demands.

Band of Brothers has that one scene where they’re walking past a bunch of German POWs and Malarkey jokingly asks them where they’re from, only for one of them to respond with “Eugene, Oregon”.

Supposedly based on a real encounter, the guy’s family was part of “The Aryan Call” wave of propaganda that happened early in the war, which had some native German families in the US return to fight for Germany. Poor guy just got swept up in his family’s decision. It was an incredibly humanizing moment when you realize everyone there, on both sides, is just some scared kid, far from home, whose only there because circumstances in their lives beyond their control brought them.

Of course, shortly after, the guy gets executed with the rest of the POWs.

It was fake. Obvious from how the texts were structured. It was also from a brand new account.

I thought Lemmy would be better than reddit for spotting clearly fake shit, but pretty much everyone in the comments bought it hook, line, and sinker.

Glad to help! It really is a lifesaver if you ever lose your insurance, I wish more people knew to use it.

DO NOT GET COBRA! That is NOT the fucking lesson! Look, just use healthcare.gov. it’s not perfect, but God damn it will get 90% of people affordable healthcare.

That’s because of high infant/childhood mortality rates skewing the average. If you take away anyone who died before age 5, the average age shoots up to like 70+ in most places. Not too different from today.

Kind of rare, but not exactly unheard of. Kinda like anyone taller than 6’ 8" these days. If you saw them, you might think “Wow, they’re tall” but you wouldnt think of them as freakish.

Combine that with this being a Roman fort, and the fact that being a soldier was probably a pretty common job for big/strong men, and it’s really not that surprising. Kind of a nothing story really. Imagine a bunch of future archeologists scratching their heads over finding a bunch of large shoes in an NBA locker room.

The band saw was also created to cut through meat and bone.

It couldn’t possibly related to a global decline in tourism, could it? No, obviously it’s this obscure manga 1999 that’s responsible.

Suffer and die slowly? Where’s the profit in that? Now organ farms, THERES a moneymaker!

He also has to explain the concept of a meme.

Jackie Chan Adventures

Animaniacs

Histeria

Freakazoid

You’re going to hate this response, but if you’re already paying to avoid ads, you could get YouTube premium. I got grandfathered into it from Google Music and honestly I feel it’s absolutely worth it. It’s about the same cost as Spotify and comes with YouTube Music that works just as well. So I look at it like paying for Spotify with the added bonus of no ads on YouTube and being able to play videos in the background. I also tend to watch a ton of YouTube videos and often use them to fall asleep to.

At this point, it’s the only subscription service I still pay for. I’ve ditched all the others, but that one has stayed. Anytime I see someone watching YouTube without it, or without a good quality ad blocker, I’m horrified. So. Many. Ads. I don’t get how anyone can watch anything like that.

But I get it; most people would rather drag their ass through a mile of broken glass than pay YouTube a dime, and I totally respect that. Just sharing my experience.

One of the unlabeled buttons on the side of the screen should mute it. Whenever I find it, I’ll take a pen or sharpie and mark which one is the mute button for future people who don’t want to be subjected to that shit.

I always liked the Dresden Files take on technology and magic. It’s not that they can’t exist in the same universe, it’s that magic causes absolute haywire with circuitry. So you can use technology, or you can use magic, but not both.

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