TheTechnician27
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Welcome to industrialization, bitchassEnglish
131·18 hours agoWelcome to industrialization
Industrialization in the form of the cotton gin was one of the main reasons slavery was so profitable in the South. What are you talking about?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has there ever been a show about a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group?English
61·20 hours agoAddressed the Charlie and Dee thing below; I just don’t consider a one-off, single-episode B-plot like that 10 seasons into the show (with a later throwaway joke in one episode three seasons later) a “romantic entanglement” for what’s an ongoing 17-season comedy show.
Mac’s crush on Dennis is the closest we come, but that’s still very distant from “romantic entanglement” to me; that implies an entanglement, where in reality Mac’s one-sided crush is infrequently referenced and pretty much always for laughs, and Dennis clearly demonstrates at every turn that literally nothing will ever come of it. The audience is always deliberately shown that this will never turn into anything; there’s no “will they, won’t they” going on because the answer is always and in perpetuity “won’t they”.
TL;DR: There’s no actual arc or plotline.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has there ever been a show about a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group?English
4·20 hours agoYeah, it does happen, although I still went ahead with the comment because I don’t consider that a “romantic entanglement”.
- The show has 178 20-ish-minute episodes over 17 seasons.
- Of those, there’s one B-plot in one episode (“The Gang Misses the Boat”) ten seasons in and a later one-off reference to it in “Time’s Up for the Gang” (S13).
- The show has mostly minor elements of serialization, and there’s no ongoing romance between the core gang at any point; if you accidentally missed those two episodes (or one and walked away to get a drink without pausing for like a minute on the other), you’d literally never know.
- Arguably the closest we get is Mac’s obvious crush on Dennis, but this only comes up infrequently, is rarely played for any kind of actual drama, and is almost exclusively a punchline, and Dennis never reciprocates in the slightest.
“Entanglement” to me implies that the two or more characters have ongoing, mutual romantic feelings for each other that are explored or at least consistently shown over multiple episodes.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has there ever been a show about a mixed-gender group of adult friends where there are no romantic entaglements within the group?English
301·21 hours agoIt’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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World News@lemmy.world•China celebrity dog stolen, sold for US$25 and eatenEnglish
281·1 day ago180 yuan right now is $26.59. Given the headline only reports the conversion which changes, it’s arguably better to round it as they did to convey a general point rather than the exact specific amount of dollars.
Edit: Looking at it now, the conversion rate seems reasonably stable, so I wonder if they still rounded it just for simplicity’s sake.
Cost per person, $3.50
What if Joe’s 29-minute guarantee isn’t fulfilled?
Jokes aside, I’d never considered how the flavor of taco seasoning (I’m specifically thinking of cumin) would go on pizza. I’m intrigued.
Ah, yeah, I guess I was forgetting about promoting. Agreed that white definitely wins then.
Okay, but now I want to see what the end state looks like for optimal (or near-optimal) play between both participants in this fucked-up chess variant.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Just hanging with the boysEnglish
50·2 days agoMhm.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•Spider Proof [SMBC Comic]English
321·2 days agoI mean I definitely think it’d hurt him, but agreed on no crushing.
My problem is the spider sense logic. Even within the context of a joke, spider sense is clearly heavily temporal. I don’t think, for example, that Spider-Man is constantly tingling over the eventual chronic illness he’s going to succumb to in 50 years or whatever.
By the time his spider sense is going off, you’re minutes if not seconds from finishing the compute and achieving the result anyway.
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Technology@lemmy.world•"Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamersEnglish
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Technology@lemmy.world•"Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamersEnglish
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memes@lemmy.world•What kind of power play is this?English
232·2 days agoWell the first thing he said to them was “I will make you fishers of men”, so he wanted them to get used to changing identities.
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Technology@lemmy.world•"Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamersEnglish
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’English
161·2 days agoYes. It’s the state where American Indianans come from, naturally.
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’English
163·2 days agoWhere the fuck is shelbyville? Some shitholy state no doubt
For the sake of accessibility, I’ve translated the relevant part of the article so it’s easier for you to read:

My favorite way to slap an English speaker in the face with the silly irregularities of English pronunciation is to show them the 1920 poem The Chaos.






















Well that and the question was about “between the group”, i.e. intra-group entanglements. The only one that’s intra-group here is the first (to which what you said about a one-off applies).