Sludge is a good name for it. Capitalistic bullshit at its finest.

I’ve always been partial to this one

Teal Baglan, bounty hunter

Negative. I am a meat popsicle

🤌

I wished that worked for being a New Jerseyan, but people mostly just make mob and guido jokes.

We do love our deli meat though, so that one’s largely accurate.

I really enjoy some of Ars’ coverage, but I agree that Conde sucks

Brb gotta feel what my insides say

A thing called love

I did have a good laugh at this one because in this instance the dark pattern is literally a dark pattern hiding the hyperlink, so thanks for that.

I hate dark patterns. I leave shitty reviews and call them out every time I see them. Hopefully the more people realize when they’re being manipulated will result in companies facing actual consequences for this kind of bs.

Muh critical support

Meh, that place is going downhill quick anyway

God forbid the help be allowed to talk about what’s actually going on. Fucking bullshit

What bugs me about the streaming services is songs from my library dropping off the service with no notice

There’s a host of factors, I’ll try to outline the ones I can think off off the top of my head

1. Industrial base: The UK was bombed during WWII, the US was not. That gave the US a production advantage.
2. Natural Resources: The UK was dependent upon many resources from their empire while the US was using a lot of their own domestic resources for production.
3. Decolonialization: the UK’s resource base, as mentioned in the last point, were largely seeking independence in the wake of the war. The US brand of imperialism was more economic in nature than political so they didn’t have the same issue.
4. Population: it’s tough to outproduce a nation that’s 3x the size (UK pop was about 50 million in 1950; the US was roughly 150 million)
5. The Marshall plan. It’s hard to overstate how much of a boon rebuilding Europe was for the American economy.
6. Debt: military goods aren’t cheap. The UK sourced a ton of war material from the US. I just looked it up; the UK made its final WW2 debt payment to the US in 2006. Sheesh!

Be sure to drink your ovaltine

His interview on Letterman’s Netflix show was it for me. He kept whipping up these meaningless word salads that may sound profound to some but it just came across as mania to me

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I’ll browse here and there in browser on my laptop but 90+% of the time I’m using voyager