I’ve heard this from service techs who have worked on my refrigerator and dishwasher - major appliances in America last a third as long as they did 10 or 15 years ago.

Imagine, government of the people, by the people, and for the people - that’s crazy SoCiAlIsM talk!

I agree, capitalism is just one way greed manifests itself. Greedy opportunists figure out how to exploit any system. The people douchevoting you are binary meme-brains who think you’re saying capitalism is the greatest thing since Betty White because you didn’t explicitly say the opposite.

When did Meredith at Dunder Mifflin become a vampire?

As a science nerd I think BBT is very funny, even when the writers make such glaring errors as having Sheldon stop his self-destruct device just before its countdown reached zero - even though he modeled it after Star Trek, specifically referenced a TOS episode the self-destruct was featured in, and even used the same password. Any true Trek fan knows the Enterprise self-destruct was unstoppable after the countdown reached 5 seconds - a fact that comes up in the very episode Sheldon mentioned. A deplorable writing error, to be sure, but I think such things are amusing in their own way.

The only remotely objective measurement I know is that enough people enjoyed the show to make it last 12 seasons. Y’all are welcome to your own opinions, but all the absolutist pontificating is pretty silly. There’s no Kelvin scale of funny.

IT Crowd is hysterically funny as well, but it’s written differently (not correctly or wrongly, just different) and was written and performed for a different audience, in a different country. There’s really no point arguing which was funnier.

“I’ve only seen the one episode…”

Sheldon: “You certainly put a lot of effort into expressing an opinion you’re woefully unqualified to form.”

In other words, you have insufficient data to make a meaningful comparison.

We used to expect artificial intelligence to solve the world’s problems, like we expected radio, television and the Internet to bring the whole world together. Instead they’ve mainly been used to convince us to buy more stuff. We also feel like our lives are inadequate now because we compare ourselves to so many fictional characters - but hey, maybe the answer is to buy more stuff!

90% of AI investors report (or should) that they’re completely ignorant that the current AI bubble is mimicking the late 90s dotcom bubble, when semi-randomly buying overhyped stocks was supposed to make fools rich.

Interesting, I never knew that, even though my parents sent me to a Jesuit high school in Portland OR. All boys sadly, but academically fantastic.

Needs a nice steaming cup of black coffee, piping hot.

1. Trump threatens Nintendo with tariffs
2. Nintendo doesn’t seem to GAF
3. Trump says he’ll talk with Nintendo if they call
4. Nintendo doesn’t call
5. Trump cancels tariff, invites Nintendo CEO to lunch
6. MAGA applauds Trump for saving America from something or other

I’m confused, does OP want to know what people were doing before high fives or what was recently invented?

By “steal” you mean “copy”.

Good to know every generation is progressively more enlightened than previous ones, just like I keep reading on social media. All the world’s problems should be solved any day now lol.

Jesus, I was using Turbo Pascal in the 80s. Had no idea it even still existed in 2000. Flex: I wrote my own BBS in Turbo Pascal and ran if for a couple years in Portland - Tomb of the Unknown Modem.

Just my own perspective lol. I was an old-school programmer before the web era, when computers were in a computer room and we used “terminals” that were just monitors with keyboards. I only had a PC and ball mouse for like 5 years before I got an optical mouse.

At one of my jobs a guy ran the speaker wires from the adjoining cubicle in and out of his own computer so he could mix things into the other guy’s audio, mostly music and talk radio, at very low volume so it sounded like random stray signals. Took the guy like a month to figure out what was going on.

According to the internets, “Liberation Theology” is a Christian movement that started in Latin America in the 1960s, that preaches against oppression. They sound like the opposite of right-wing “Christians”.

WWJD?

Get apprehended and sent to a gulag in El Salvador.