snooggums

They are great if you don’t care whether they are accurate at any given point in time.

Posting large numbers of failed [thing] is adding to thr large number of [thing] being shared. Basic engagement that perpetuates more and more [thing] filling feeds.

Like how a feed complaining about celebrity gossip spam is just perpetuating celebrity gossip spam.

He drifts between topics more regularly and in fewer words that he used to. Like in 2016 he would say dumb stuff, but could say two sentences in a row or more on the same subject before switching to something else tangentially related if you squint hard enough. It was word salad, but you could follow it if you just pictured it was the utterance of an excited four year old.

Now he has trouble finishing sentences without switching subjects and instead of saying nonsensical things it is more of a word puree than word salad. Everything is mixed together and completely incoherent instead of stupid. It was a low starting point, but it has gotten worse.

Comedians doing standup are including laughter based on their audience enjoying their comedy. Even shows that were filmed in front of a studio audience with prompts to laugh are likely to get some genuine laughs.

Sitcoms that use canned laughter are trying to force the audience to think they are funny, even when they aren’t.

After a couple decades of watching movies and shows without laugh tracks I tried to watch Blackadder and the IT Crowd and the audience laughter killed my enjoyment. They were funny, but not funny enough to get past the audience getting in the way of the humor.

Yeah, concentrating it to make it easier to ignore is actually great.

Vance said Haitians are stealing and eating people’s dogs, which is an another version of the racist myth of Chinese restaurants stealing neighborhood cats to cook from when I was a kid.

I skipped the one earlier this year and only watched clips from the last couple of elections because they were always boring slogs where neither candidate said anything of substance and their side said they won. It seemed pretty pointless to watch.

This one might break the apathy streak since Harris has gone all in on calling Trump out for being a jackass and it would be fun to watch that live and it is likely the media will just sugar coat Trump’s incoherent ramblings like they have on all previous debates.

It is because of the number of cyclists who pull in front of traffic when they should have stopped, leading to short braking and getting flipped off by the cyclist for some reason. It is as annoying as pedestrians walking out into traffic (not at cross walks or in residential neighborhoods) when there are structured places for them to cross. It is as annoying as a csr pulling through a crosswalk when they shouldn’t.

Even if the overall system is terribly designed, having people create a hazardous situation is annoying.

Anyone who cares that a bicyclist that runs a stop sign or people jaywalk when there is no traffic around is getting their feathers ruffled over nothing. But there are just enough people who walk or ride into traffic when they should be yielding to make it an annoyance.

Yeah, a lot of sitcoms were basically throwing one liners at each other to get an audience reaction.

IT Crowd’s first few episodes that I watched would have worked a lot better without audience laughter in my opinion.