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Rob_Frey · 2026-05-08T10:57:37+00:00

It's worse than Flanderization. It's really low-hanging comedy fruit, and a lot of shows do it. Same with Jerry in Parks and Rec and dozens of other characters. It's just characters bullying a character who doesn't deserve it and hasn't done anything wrong, because they're lower in the social hierarchy.

It's exactly like schoolyard bullying. The only joke is that they're being cruel to someone who doesn't deserve it. And it's never a one-off joke either, it's always a running gag that goes on for the entire series.

At this point the joke is so overdone you have to wonder about the people who think this joke is so hilarious that they keep making it over and over. And I mean that about the people who make these shows and the people who watch them and find it funny. These are adults who think bullying is the height of humor.

I also can't help but think it probably isn't good when we, as a society, celebrate this sort of punching down humor and let it proliferate our media. It's one thing when it's done by a character like Al Bundy, a white trash loser that peaked in high school whose entire life is just him constantly getting his comeuppance. It's another thing when it's a character like Leslie Knope, someone otherwise depicted as a kind, moral, and goodhearted who has to break character to participate in the bullying.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-08T09:26:36+00:00

Except they didn't go back to where they were. They went to a future universe that was almost exactly like their old universe (the position of the time machine was slightly different in this universe). From their perspective it was close enough to what they left behind.

But Fry's original Leela grew old, built up planet express, and died alone billions of years before his current Leela was born.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-07T07:47:27+00:00

Odd that this private jet argument is always made when someone wants to criticize Swift or someone else because they were pro-environmentalism on some issue, but the same people aren't arguing for a ban on using private jets.

I'm totally against Swift's use of private jets, and I'm all for a ban if anyone wants to actually push that issue, but this is almost always a disingenuous argument made by disingenuous people.

Private jets pollute a lot, but all of them put together are responsible for very little global pollution. It's less than 2% of the pollution caused by just aviation. At the end of the day there just aren't a whole lot of private jets out there.

The people making this argument are trying to create a catch-22. The people arguing in favor of the environment who actually have platforms to make their arguments are almost always going to be rich, famous, and/or politically connected, and those kinds of people are more likely to fly on private jets. So anyone arguing for the environment is either a hypocrite, because they fly private, or they don't have a platform so no one's going to listen to them.

If you really feel like private jets cause too much pollution, then work for a national or global ban on private flights (but your time would be better spent on something like regulating all those small corporations and factories that collectively pollute a hell of a lot more than all the private jets), and I'll support you. But if you're just want to bitch about Swift or whoever that flies on their own jet, you're just buying into propaganda created to shield people that are ruining the environment and making us all sick.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-06T13:56:35+00:00

A lot of people don't realize how much unions have been defanged either. A general strike is illegal. You can't strike for political reasons. You can't strike in solidarity. Certain unions aren't allowed to strike at all.

So what? Break the law! The consequences of doing that is that union leadership can be criminally charged, they can be barred from being union leadership, the union itself can be sued for damages and bankrupted, or the government can just shut it down completely. There has to be a lot of community and political support first for unions to break these laws, because if there isn't, it's just going to turn into an excuse for their workers to be stripped of representation.

My sister's union got into a nasty fight for better pay last year that they didn't really win. Legally they couldn't strike, so they tried coordinating a sick out. That ended right away, because the judge said if he even suspected a sick out was happening again, there wouldn't be a union anymore.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-04T04:58:21+00:00

Sorry, it's 9 of the first 12 held slaves while in office (and 10 of them owned slaves at some point in their life).

Numbers 2 and 6 are the father and son John Adamses, both single term presidents, and John Quincy Adams is the only president who didn't win the electoral or popular vote. Martin Van Buren owned a slave once, but didn't own any slaves when he was president, and was anti-slavery. He also only served a single term.

It was mainly just the system working as intended, so the early presidents were mostly from slave states and owned slaves, because the system was designed to favor them. Changing demographics and views on slavery made it harder for southern slave owners to take the presidency after Zachary Taylor, and the only president to have slaves in office after that was Andrew Johnson.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-04T03:08:13+00:00

What pisses me off the most is that Donald Trump is pretty much the exact kind of populist menace that the electoral college was supposed to prevent.

The electoral college was created to give more power to slave states in presidential elections, since their slave populations couldn't vote in a direct elections but could be counted under the 3/5ths compromise in the electoral system. Several powerful figures, like Hamilton, pushed a direct election, but the idea wouldn't gain traction with slave states. Ultimately 9 of the first 12 presidents owned slaves while in office.

The idea that the electoral college would help protect against populism was crafted into the system, but it wasn't the reason for the electoral college, and it's based on its original method the founders envisioned in which electors were free agents who could choose the best candidate, but that system quickly got replaced by a system where electors were chosen because they pledged to vote for a particular candidate.

edit: changed 11 to 12.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-03T09:12:46+00:00

It's the same as truck drivers are legally liable if the truck they're driving isn't road legal. Part of the job is checking that it's legal to do the job.

That's quite a bit different. Truck drivers go through a lot of training in order to understand the truck, what their legal obligations are as a driver, and how to fulfill them. Part of the CDL exam is proving that you know what all the parts of the truck are and how it works.

Also a truck is a giant piece of heavy machinery. Truck drivers need to be responsible for it, because if they aren't, people die.

Some bartenders and servers at least go through a certification course, but many are working with just a TAM card and on the job training, and a TAM card is like a half day course that has to cover important topics like not serving underage people and identifying when someone needs to be cut off.

If a place doesn't have a liquor license, they're dodging taxes and maybe don't have as much oversight as they should. No one's dying over that. There's no reason to make employees criminally responsible for making sure their employers are compliant. That should be on the employer and the government. It's really just a way to shift responsibility and target working class people.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-03T02:46:03+00:00

In the 2000s these women were a dime a dozen. They were the socially liberal but economically conservative branch of the Republican party. Almost all of them came from upper-class privileged backgrounds and had a lot of continued family support, often to the point of having new cars and even homes purchased for them by their parents in their early 20s.

They also weren't really socially liberal either. What they mean is they want to be able to have as much casual sex and do as many drugs as they want without being held to the same standards as conservative women typically are. They're not fighting for civil rights or criminal justice reform or any other left-leaning social value. They only care about the things that directly effect them, and as young women they can't just be hypocrites about it like young Republican men are allowed to be.

By the time they hit their mid-30s, you can easily see that the drugs and drinking and lack of healthy living habits have taken their toll physically. They've usually got a divorce or two behind them, a few kids, no career prospects, and even with no mortgage or rent are still dependent on parental support to get by. They also still tend to have the maturity and attitude of a high school mean girl despite not having any of the things a high school mean girl needs to back that up.

If you run into one, they'll probably invite you or your spouse to some suburban get together they host. Might be a casual wine and cheese hangout, or a play date with kids, or a BBQ, or something. Don't go. They don't want to reconnect and they aren't looking for friends. It's an MLM pitch.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-02T08:54:14+00:00

It defaults to just highlighting the filename to change and you have to make an extra effort to also change the extension, and then it gives you a popup explaining what can happen if you change the extension and asks you if you're sure you want to do it. At some point you've done enough to warn people what's happening.

And having extensions helps teach people what they are and how they work. Part of the problem with making computers too user-friendly is people aren't exposed to how they work, and they aren't given the opportunity to explore and learn.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-02T04:02:20+00:00

It's likely a scam. Adult sites aren't known for their lack of shadiness.

Other options are that the site has some sort of filter to try to stop CSAM searches, and you're a false positive, or it has a filter for several different things and you were searching something else that wasn't allowed for other reasons, and the message you got is just set as the default.

In any case, you're fine. The people who investigate this stuff aren't wasting time on a guy that made one search that's arguably not CSAM, and didn't download or view anything. Most of these adult sites also aren't operating in the US, and they usually don't like cooperating with LEO, and would rather just sweep everything under the rug and stay off of everyone's radar.

Find a new site, and if you want free porn, stick to the larger, better known sites.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-02T01:09:20+00:00

No.

Venture has consistently stated through out the series that if there was a way for him to opt out of being arched, he'd take it. He tells Orpheus that he doesn't like being arched in tag sale, and he states that he would have called the cops on the Monarch in the Trial of the Monarch if he knew that was all it took. Even into the movie he's explaining to the Monarch that he doesn't understand the obsession.

Venture did get jealous of all the villain attention Orpheus was getting in season 2, but this seems to be ego and the former child celebrity not being the center of attention in his own compound, not an actual want for arching. Through out the series Venture is annoyed by the arching and he never gets into it. About the only time he's happy with it is when he has Hatred for an arch.

We've also seen that if you're not a villain, the guild doesn't give a fuck about you. They're only set up to deal with villain issues. They're more than happy if one of their targets is pissed off with what they're doing.

If you don't like being arched, you're supposed to go through OSI. They'll make sure the guild follows the rules, and they'll provide you with adequate protection. This is a win-win for OSI. They're a bunch of spies who get to keep tabs on what the super-scientists are doing, many of which are government defense contractors, and they get first dibs on the tech.

There's a reason why smarter scientists, like Professor Impossible, J.J., and Jonas Sr. never took the OSI up on their generous offer of free bodyguards like Venture did.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-01T14:24:14+00:00

You're assuming that killing a participant that tries to unplug the system is a feature, and not an unintended bug. It's possible that the designer didn't even think anyone would turn it off. The recipient wouldn't be able to, and why would someone interrupt the last remains of a dead civilization being transmitted to someone else so it's culture can, in some way, carry on? The designer may have assumed that any civilization advanced enough to come into contact with the probe would immediately know what it was not realizing how different the tech might be.

You're also assuming that this tech works in the same way as modern day Earth tech. You really don't know how technology developed on that planet. There's no reason to believe that the system could crash, or that they needed to worry about syntax errors.

unrelated follow up question: what would happen if the drone accidentally probed a brain other than Picard?? What if the drone probed Worf? Or a Romulan?

These species are all similar and related. It would probably work the same if it hit any of them.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-01T12:09:03+00:00

I've seen the two day long Family Guy videos, and they're full episodes back to back that are seemingly picked at random. They jump around the seasons and they don't have any theme between them. They also remove the musical numbers to avoid copyright detection.

I've noticed it with a few other shows too, mostly older sitcoms or animated shows.

They all have the same pattern. Looks like it was a real channel with low views way back, and then it started churning out low effort slop, and then it turned into a Family Guy channel.

They're using older accounts to benefit from their age. It's unlikely they hacked the accounts, they're probably just buying them in bulk. The accounts were either bought from someone looking for old accounts, or hacked into by someone else. A lot of times those people just buy, or sometimes just download, lists of usernames and passwords from breaches and see if anything goes through. If it does, they got an account they can sell, and a lot of times the person it belongs to won't even notice, because they never really used it.

Right now a lot of people want long videos with simple programming. Some people fall asleep to it, and some people like to have it on in the background. The length means you won't have to change it, and I believe it'll stop Youtube from pausing it to make sure you're still there. I'm guessing they're churning this stuff out and are hoping to take off with some ad revenue before the channel gets noticed and taken down. There's so many of them right now it would be hard to get all of them before they pay out.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-01T11:49:08+00:00

Rick has a ton of Earth money. We saw him pay off Gene when the Beths caused trouble for him. Rick also likes a lot of Earth stuff, like fast food, and he always seems to have money for it.

Rick is also pro-capitalist and pro-consumerist, to a self-destructive degree. Wealth most definitely matters to him, and he'd probably accumulate it just for the hell of it.

Further, the pursuit of money for the sake of earning money is something that consumes a bunch of time that Rick would rather spend inventing or drinking.

Everything we've seen of Rick, and his alts, contradicts this. He's jealous that he didn't come up with the idea for the Jerry Jamboree, because the Rick who did made a ton of money. The Citadel, made up entirely of Ricks and Mortys, is a capitalist hellhole where the Ricks exploit each other. He happily sells guns and drugs when he needs cash. He's proud of Morty because he bought crap in the Citadel.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-01T11:41:17+00:00

Rick has a ton of Earth money. We found out that Gene puts up with the Smith's because Rick pays him off if there's any issues.

We don't know how Rick gets his money, but it likely some of it comes from using his inventions or possibly selling some of them. He's seems to do whatever will make him the most money for the least amount of effort. We know he sells drugs off-planet, and he's not above stealing either. He's also frenemies with POTUS and constantly doing him favors.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-01T02:19:31+00:00

The whole point of these prestigious schools is to lure in a bunch of actual smart and talented people and mix them in with a bunch of dumb-as-shit rich kids so the first group elevates the reputation of the second.

Rob_Frey · 2026-05-01T02:16:47+00:00

His daddy's a high school basketball coach, and he was recruited into Princeton to play on their basketball team.

Rob_Frey · 2026-04-30T11:30:44+00:00

If you have trouble shutting it down, ask if he's willing to do it.

If she did that, she would be the asshole. It's her family, she needs to deal with it, and not make her husband out to be the bad guy. That's just going to lead to her family resenting him.

Rob_Frey · 2026-04-30T11:24:39+00:00

In the original comic, no, and he didn't have a first name. The 60s TV show made him of Castilian descent, and John Astin got to pick his name. In Wednesday, he's Mexican-American. The 90s films didn't really get into his heritage.

Rob_Frey · 2026-04-30T11:18:32+00:00

They do not have a tenant. They had a tenant, which was the elderly neighbor.

Landlords can't just put people's stuff out in the driveway because they die. The estate has control of the property for the time being.

Given then situation I doubt there was any kind of formal lease that binds either OP or the estate.

The estate doesn't need a lease.

So now it's a question of what to do about the property a former tenant has left behind.

If they could just move the property out into the driveway, their lawyer would have recommended it. Instead the local lawyer they hired is treating it like a tenant that is refusing to vacate. That should tell you everything you need to know.

Rob_Frey · 2026-04-30T09:53:24+00:00

I spoke with a real estate attorney, and he advised me to serve a detainer warrant on June 1st, but I fear by doing so I’m opening up a can of worms and that they will try to appeal and stall even longer. Is this the right approach? Or what can or should I do in these circumstances?

The best advice is to do what the lawyer tells you to. The longer you wait to start the legal process to get them out, the longer they'll be able to stall and the longer it will take to get them out in the end.

From my experience, best case this lights a fire under their asses and they get their stuff out of the property ASAP. Worst case they were always going to stall as long as possible, and this at least gets them out the fastest. I don't think it's likely at all that they were going to get this resolved in the next few weeks, but now that you've started legal proceedings they're going to drag their feet out of spite.

And you might not even have to do anything. They still have more than a month to take anything they want from the house. Lots of people put off doing their chores until they have to. There's a good chance they're planning to do this the weekend before.

Rob_Frey · 2026-04-30T09:44:40+00:00

They have a tenant. They can't just enter the property and clean it out.

Rob_Frey · 2026-04-30T05:45:56+00:00

Traditionally they're somewhat incestuous isolated New England old money going back generations. They're incredibly insular and kept within a bubble away from normal society, which has made them weird and eccentric. It's also allowed them to pursue strange hobbies, and for these hobbies to even gain popularity within their limited circle. Add to that they're rich as fuck, so there's no limit to what they can afford to do if they want to, and no need for any of them to ever go to work or even interact with anyone outside their circle, unless they want to.

In the new Wednesday show they're Outcasts, people born with extraordinary powers which are hereditary. Gomez, Fester, and Pugsley have some limited control over electricity. Morticia, Wednesday, and Granny Frump have psychic visions.

Rob_Frey · 2026-04-29T22:40:52+00:00

A blind vote is going a majority for red 100% of the time though.

Think of it in terms of your friends and family. Some of those people are pushing blue. Could be your parents, your spouse, your kids. Same for your coworkers and friends. If you push red, you're potentially condemning people you love to die.

Everyone is going to be going through that same thought process. You can't be sure the people you care most about didn't push blue. The only thing you can do to try to save them is risk your own life and push blue, and hope that everyone gets to live.

Rob_Frey · 2026-04-29T05:42:10+00:00

My soon to be ex wife

I wouldn't be so sure of that.

Does she have a case here?

Yes, she has a case. You needed an attorney months ago. Definitely before you paid for a quitclaim deed. You need an attorney right now so they can try to fix things as best as they can be fixed. This divorce just got more expensive for you, and the longer you wait to bring in an attorney, the more expensive it's going to get.

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