Likely a popular opinion: @[email protected] is mostly a troll who seems, in his history, to adopt contrarian views just to get a response, thus disguising from himself the emptiness that rings hollowly where he once had a life.

For 99.44% of movies, I think your opinion could be more accurately stated thusly:

If your movie starts with a flashback, you suck

Ah. Another child has discovered profanity and decided it fucking rules.

See, this is the less entitled, more thoughtful way of saying what OP said. There’s no question that road planning is haphazard and ridiculous, and further that a lot of such planning is done on dark patterns like maximizing income from legal penalties. But that is what should be fought, not “HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME SLOW DOWN NEXT TO WHERE IMPULSIVE SMALL HUMANS WITH THE ATTENTION SPAN OF A GNAT ARE LIKELY TO BE RUNNING AROUND!?”

Translation from entitlese to English: “HOW DARE YOU INCONVENIENCE ME FOR A FEW MINUTES! THIS IS COMMUNISM! OR FASCISM! OR WHATEVER -ISM IS THE BUGABOO OF THE WEEK!”

Go to https://betterhelp.com/mapmen for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help.

Therapist: How can I help you?

Me: I’m just constantly feeling so much rage!

Therapist: Is there a trigger for it?

Me: All these fucking Youtube content “creators” advertising a corrupt and bogus mental healthy outfit!

How would you go about making non-clopping heels? (Protip: you’d better consider lateral stability in your design or you’re going to be breaking a fuckload of ankles.)

Oh, I’m sorry! I had no idea it was impossible to both celebrate AND help people.

I stand corrected. Apparently human beings are incapable of doing multiple things.

If you can’t celebrate the death of a monster responsible for literally millions of dead human beings, what can you celebrate? If you can’t celebrate the deaths of rent-seeking purveyors of misery and exploitation, what can you celebrate?

Oh, I know! You can only celebrate entirely fictitious things like the birth of a “saviour”, right?

Fuck that opinion.

Is celebrating the death of a human being mildly unpleasant? Sure. But is it more unpleasant than the 3-4 million deaths he caused? Fuck no.

Celebrate the death of an evil man. Go for it. And for the neo-Victorian scolds who want to say that it’s bad to speak ill of the dead:

Very few people follow through on this. I hope enough do to kill Youtube, though.

Way back when, when speciality cable became a thing, the big appeal to all these cable packages was “no ads, unlike regular television channels”.

Everybody started buying cable packages. And it was glorious! You could watch a show or a movie WITHOUT getting interrupted by stupid bullshit ads.

Then they started putting ads in between episodes or shows. People grumbled, but hey, it was between not during so … nobody pulled out (statistically speaking).

Then they’d put an ad in the middle. Just a short one. People grumbled, but hey, it was short. So nobody (statistically speaking) pulled out.

Over time, using salami tactics (one thin slice after another), ads got injected into all these speciality packages. In the end you got exactly the same as what you’d fled from. Only you paid ten times as much for it.

And nobody (statistically speaking) pulled out.

So guess what Youtube Premium is going to be doing? (Hint: history doesn’t repeat, but it sure as fuck rhymes!)

Does Youtube accept payment in RMB over WeChat Wallet or Alipay?

Seems Premium isn’t available to me then.

And, indeed, to a whole lot of people.

Or K. Everybody always forgets K.

The logic here doesn’t work for me. Moon cakes are generally eaten only in the week surrounding the Mid-Autumn Festival here in China. It’s traditional, see. Yet they’re incredibly yummy and were they available at other times they’d likely be consumed cheerfully. In Hubei there’s a special dish of “birthday noodles” eaten basically only on your birthday. (And only by you; the rest of your family doesn’t get them.) They’re also incredibly delicious … and literally eaten only once a year.

The fact that something is eaten only seasonally or by special occasion doesn’t mean that it’s not tasty. It means that it’s special, nothing more.

I ate turkey in Germany in the '80s already. It wasn’t super-common, but it was there. My family tended to have goose at Christmas dinners, but turkey was an option that was frequently used by others.

Wackypedia says:

• Turkeys are traditionally eaten as the main course of Thanksgiving dinner feasts in the United States and Canada, and at Christmas dinner feasts in much of the rest of the world (often as stuffed turkey).
• Turkey was eaten in as early as the 16th century in England.
• While the tradition of turkey at Christmas spread throughout Britain in the 17th century, among the working classes, it became common to serve goose, which remained the predominant roast until the Victorian era.

Here’s a turkey farming operation in Ampfing, Germany. That one operation slaughters and sells 3000 tons of turkey a year, apparently.

Turkey consumption per capita statistics show that Germany, for example, is about 3.4kg annually per capita vs. the USA’s 7.5, Hungary’s 9, and Israel’s (?!) 13.

Unfortunately statistics on this seem a bit incomplete. The first site lists 11 nations only. Over here they list 7, but barely have any overlap with the first site. More information gives some solid figures on the production and export of turkey meat. … And so on and so on and so on. So yes, turkeys are raised and consumed worldwide.

Loads of people worldwide. They’re just not cultural touchstones like they are for North Americans.

Absolutely.

The cool air of the mountain upon which Privilegeville sits must be laced with something that generates calm smugness.

In some cases it is, yes, worse. But in many cases it’s just the press the Americans spew about themselves living in the “land of the free” while the jackboots march in unison ever closer.