Oh, I couldn’t tell you what the 2 things are. I don’t have a keen eye. I’m just waiting for someone who does.

A keen eye would pick up 2 subtle but clever additional references in the background and related to the specifications of those particular drives.

In university my entire dorm floor was in on insisting to my ex that it wasn’t “Big Bird”, but instead “Big Bert” (as opposed to regular sized bert)

It came up for the 100th time at a party, and I was like “go ahead, look it up” and was able to get in an edit JUST before the page load. “Big Bird (Or “Big Burt” for Canadian rebroadcast)”

It lasted for maybe 20 seconds, but it was all we needed.

You probably didn’t expect that comment to make me feel so old.

I thought it required energy to process wood into charcoal?

Carbon neutral?

I’m not sure if agree with your conclusion. You might conclude that they put great value on the deliciousness of thier food, but the relationship is inverse: less delicious = greater value.

People of of two cultures might both place high value on decorations, but one culture might view another’s style as tacky.

I was picturing a culture for whom food was strictly for nutrition.

Well, at the risk of being pedantic, you literally said:

food is just nutrition

I understand now what you intended to communicate (which is strictly different than what you said)

I got excited when I read what you said, because i thought you actually had an example of a culture for whom food is just nutrition. It’s a sci-fi trope that i find interesting because it is truly alien, and I’ve always wondered if any real culture fit that.

Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun “hedonism”, food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role.

I understand what you mean now. I’m just disappointed.

Food has ceremonial and ritual value in all of those places, it is not merely a vehicle for nutrition.

You guys

People keep making this broad assertion and then not following up.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but if there are many cultures for whom food is merely nutrition, could you name one?

From an anthropological standpoint, I’d be fascinated.

Like, this thread is full of jokes about how some cultures have shitty food, but that subjective assessment is very different than the idea that food’s mere purpose is nutrition. It implies it has no ceremonial use.

So, of the many, just even tell us one.

Yeah, that “EAT_ROADKILL” fellow is far too serious.

The Weezer pork and beans video was actually fucking sweet

Ok

I think you’re missing what this is. They’re not adding sponsor segments.

They’re scanning the video, establishing where “free visual space” is, and then embedding advertising into that space. It becomes part of the video, not an intermission. You don’t cut a “time segment” to remove it, you have to cut a “space segment” to remove it. And then what do you fill it with?

There are certainly ways to mitigate it, but they’re not great.

https://xkcd.com/927/

Technically the post is reducing another culture to a form of therapy

My university residence floor graced me with the “Most likely to jump onto the tacks to save someone even if he knows he’ll be killed in the process”.

Yes this was it! Thank you!