I feel like part of it was that the console revisions past 2008 aren’t as big of a deal as they were before. You also had publishers start producing games for multiple generations of consoles at the same time.

The problem with that is that South Park could never be played on CBS. South Park has always been a cable or streaming show, letting it get away with things that you can’t do on broadcast television. Also, South Park doesn’t make nearly as many episodes to fill a late night slot. It fills an anti-Trump role, but it doesn’t fill the time slot.

It seems like CBS didn’t want to entertain paring down The Late Show like how TBS pared down Conan.

I drink and have never smoked. While parents smoked, there was a push at the time to keep people from starting to smoke. In contrast, drinking was still shown to be a cool thing.

It seems like a lot of younger people have become more sober than before, so it isn’t that unusual.

Yeah. Being broke is a problem with cash flow, not the balance sheet.

I feel like the problem for consumer grade Linux is that the general population needs far more support than the industry currently offers.

Steam and Google seem closest to consumer grade Linux because the support they need to provide is subsided by their app stores and other services.

And they want to see your picture to sign into the site.

I don’t know if it is most people, but Pedro seems to be in a point of oversaturation. I can see some people tiring of him. I can also see some news outlets trying to make money by putting out negative coverage of him.

Which would also get amplified by trans bigots trying to cancel him.

They’ll just move the office to Austin.

Could the show make the kind of money it used to? The first seven seasons averaged over 8 million viewers an episode on broadcast television. The first episode of the new Hulu season only earned 4.4 million.

I don’t know if the economics will ever come back for hand animated television.

You’ve shifted to talking about tertiary education, which I’ll agree that the USA hasn’t funded to the level of other countries.

I’m not sure how we shoehorned “China Bad” into the discussion.

I’m not, but you’ve identified a a thing as American without looking at how the rest of the world operates and how some practices may be an international standard or at least more uniform than just one country. I didn’t say “China bad”, I brought up that China performs the a similar filtering of students; you applied the label that I was saying “China bad”.

It sounds like you’re angry at the American system, a system you know, and think other systems must be better without understanding how other secondary education systems work. Other countries may do some things than the USA, but a lot of the basic structure that you complained out is more universal than you think.

We have millenia of experience of people being idiots by being horny. This is just the first time we’ve seen a mass deployment of personalized horny generators.

Stupid sexy Postmortal_Pop.

Even then, career tracking absolutely can and does take on a segregationist character when the wages of the labor make access to certain career paths a purchasable privilege.

And yet it appears in most countries, including Communist ones like China. This isn’t a uniquely American action.

That’s how you get all the Eton College grads going into politics and journalism as a single congealed cohort.

That’s more due to family connections. Most UK students taking their A-Levels aren’t going into politics and journalism.

And that’s created a rich vein of for-profit schools that exist above the High School grade, which people are obligated to assume debts to attend in order to be accredited for certain jobs.

The USA still has one of the best public university systems in the world. This includes community college programs which help “lower” track students get a 4 year college degree.

And, going back to what I’ve said earlier, other countries have degree restrictions on their jobs as well. Senior government positions in other countries are usually the domain of the college educated, with a much lower percentage of their populations having a college degree.

You keep pointing to things happening in the USA as a uniquely American set-up and therefore evil without being able to contrast that with his the rest of the world handles secondary education.

I would disagree. A lot of countries provide a multi track secondary education too account for the desire and ability of different students. Having different education tracks isn’t just American invention. It just happens to be that there is an easier jump from the lower education track to college in the USA compared to other countries.

The difference is that, compared to before, a lot of services have shifted from interfacing with a human to interfacing with technology in some way. The ability to interact with a human in person may not be available or will have additional costs.

Same with using cash. A lot of places have become card only because it is cheaper to pay 3% processing fees than to handle the labor costs of dealing with cash, especially in a larger organization.

You needed a payment card of some sort.

I guess it depends on how you needed to sign up to buy tickets, but I bought tickets on my phone in Sweden with my smartphone in Sweden with only a valid email address. The app even had an English mode.

As second hand story from someone who lived in a Mafia controlled part of New York City, the neighborhood that he lived in was a poor working class neighborhood. Yet, each storefront had full glass pane windows while the other neighborhoods nearby had bars on their windows.

The Mafia have an interest in protecting those “under their protection”. This would also spoil over into charity. The Mafia would generally be charitable to those within their neighborhoods to buy off complicity of the locals. For instance, you may not turn someone in if that person is running a soup kitchen in the community.