I did some digging.

First, this is not the standard “cowsay”, this appears to be from the NPM version of “cowsay”. (npm install -g cowsay)

Second this is the “meow” cow, so cowsay -f meow "hello" . Also called “A meowing tiger?”.

Third, the fortune is available in the, now commonly removed, fortunes-off, package. I know Debian removed it, I think others did too. But you can install it manually.

And finally the source of the quote seems to be “Jester’s Condescending English Dictionary”.

It’s an interesting dataset, but I do think it’s interesting that they’re looking at followers versus viewers.

Looking just at YouTube, Joe Rogan has ~20 million YouTube subscribers, but his videos average 0.5 million to 1.3 million views.

I don’t know much about the other services, but followers might be inflating their size. It is likely doing so evenly, so the left leaning bubbles should also be smaller.

In the article itself they did look at some of the views where right leaning viewership was nearly double left leaning viewership, so it is still notable, but the breakdown would be interesting.

Re New York Ripper.

Working backwards the character exists, but we don’t know much about them. This episode gave us the most information about them (I think). They’ve stopped killing. They still taunt their victims families.

Dexter pointed out that the detectives theory about the crowbar was close, but that it was probably something longer. Meaning someone who was shorter might need something longer.

Also if Praeter has the New York Ripper’s primary killing weapon, but the New York Ripper hasn’t been caught, then where is the New York Ripper? They’re still taunting, so still alive. So the New York Ripper either IS Praeter, or knows Praeter.

Uma Thurman is a possibility as well. We just don’t know enough about her character. She has a mother that she deeply cares for, which doesn’t tell us a lot, but it means she probably isn’t a sociopath and probably not a serial killer.

It’s also very convenient story wise if Praeter is a serial killer. Dexter has no reason to kill him otherwise, he’s just a creepy dude. Since Dexter clearly plans on killing Eric Stonestreet (having already killed everyone else), leaving a loose end seems like a mistake.

On the one hand, Dexter is the luckiest man alive. On the other hand, maybe he really is the greatest serial killer.

I think watching the show I always just looked at him as a “good” serial killer, but when you look at his achievements over the course of the series, especially this season, he’s just the best at his job, his job of serial killing.

The moment he sat down next to (other) Gemini and started sucking up to him, just like his brother, I knew his plan. I did think it would take a little more work, but I guess telling him you killed his brother sort of speeds up the conversation. A little self defense, blaming the other deaths on him, brilliant. It did seem a little sloppy, hence the lucky aspect, but it adds up.

I do wonder if Praeter is the New York Ripper. If he is, then he fits Dexter’s code, which is convenient for the story, but wraps things up a little too neatly. I also feel like Praeter would share that info with the group, and not just have the trophy, but maybe he’s just extra careful. Maybe it’s something he’s saving (but everyone else knew.)

And of course Batista. I hope he lives but I just don’t see how.

I watched Lost well after it came out (during the pandemic) and I thought the ending was fine. It wasn’t a great ending, but it didn’t ruin the show. It doesn’t make the rest of the show terrible, just makes the ending weird but ok.

Similarly the ending of How I Met Your Mother, if you just ignore the last episode then the show is still great. Sure the ending is bad, but the show isn’t ruined.

Now that’s not true for Game of Thrones. That show builds to the ending and when that ending goes nowhere, or character motivations are completely wrong, that is a failure.

Now Dexter is weird. While the last season was kind of a mess, had Dexter just gone off into the sea and died, I guess that would have made sense. But really the whole season was rough, so anything they did wouldn’t have worked. BUT! They left the door open. Recently they followed up. The newest Dexter has been pretty entertaining.

FWIW I would have thought the same after Breaking Bad, but Better Call Saul and the El Camino film were both spectacular.

If the creators have an idea and want to make it, I trust them to make something excellent.

A new thing isn’t going to ruin the existing stuff.

I’ve found Jack Black works best when he appears in a supporting role. When he’s the main character he takes the entire film and makes it “Jack Black the Film”.

Put him in something like Tropic Thunder? He fits great. Have him lead School of Rock? It’s too much.

I binged the first three seasons of Upload around the time season three was released, roughly two years ago. The show started strong, but by season three it has clearly lost itself.

This trailer does look pretty good. Although a four episode final season seems more like a quick memo ending. Like it was founded juuuuust enough to finish the story. That’s better than most shows get, but I don’t have high hopes.

Basically as a “hidden gem” this show will be great when you can just binge watch it all, seasons be damned.