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Can I be 100% clear "getting away with it" is bad here
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Not to defend Joss Whedon but this was how to get away with it chefs kiss
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Then gets to be the best "nerd discovers that hot ladies are nerds also" guy
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Giles is essentially "we as a police force cannot prosecute crimes we don't understand*
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I mean yeah I guess it tracks that this is written by someone who would go on to be creepy about the people involved
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I mean what is funny is this is an episode of TV where everyone is like "nooo... people on the internet being weird couldn't be bad..." and like within a year or two the actresses must have known
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I mean actually TBF the conclusion you would have to come to is "log off" which in 1997 would be genuinely good advice
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Have just got to the "willow meets a man on the internet" episode which even by 90s standards is troubling
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I mean also the real "this is mental" thing is for the 11 o clock show heads who remember "will smith posh boy" being their Ali g replacement
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Like there's a lot of comic material in the books and the TV version really locks down on "this is a sitcom" and when you see who is writing it, it makes sense!
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(the other piece that slotted in is Mick Herron in interviews writing it as an analogy for wanting to be a successful novelist but being stuck in an office, which makes total sense)
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I mean one of the other writers is Morwenna Banks!! It is absolutely written like a sitcom and then produced like a high end spy drama, it is why it works!
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Which is basically worse. Why bother. Where are you going.
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It's the Newsletter of Not Quite Everything Newsletter. The fans have demanded it. In six months we'll demand Moffat takes over.
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Like I pollute my algorithm so I get Kent and Essex local newspaper stuff that might as well be AI but it is usually so specifically dire you know a human was doing most of it.
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Yeah, I think there is just an awful thing where the last entry level journalism left is essentially "you be chatgpt"
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I mean TBH having run a couple of events at dubious German nightclubs not even that far!
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I mean I guess also the algorithms flag me as "statistically divorced early 40s" rather than "newly married early 40s", need a way to flag that for the time being they should be serving me a mix of very affordable holiday/model railway content
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I am always like "how charming", Abi is very much "Will the government helicopter me away from this substance", which creates an interesting dynamic.
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I can see why the "a t-shirt that sits better on an experienced man's body" ads really ramp up for me this time of year
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Give me the country that can be sunny all year, low pollen, maybe snow at exactly the right level for a defined week where we are prepared!
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Like yeah if you get horny for bad crop yields and low water stocks or whatever I guess in a broad sense I am happy for you but?
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But you're complaining ultimately about a poll that (finally) reflects a thing that is true: heatwaves are bad!
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"Chibnall has made it canon that Doctor Who has to murder ten real people with a bolt gun at the start of the series"
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I think if you like a niche thing that would actively cause problems for far more people than it would benefit you do ultimately have to take your pleasures where you can.
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I think you are massively inflating the extent to which cold lovers are a thing in the UK! We have a whole thing about the end goal in life being retiring to Spain!
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Like it British weather was slowly being managed to be better by say, a moonbase, I would be fine with it. "It might reach 45C in a place totally unprepared for that because we fucked up the planet", less so.
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But I mean both things can be true - who amongst does not enjoy a balmy 25 degree day in February while thinking hmm, is too much of a good thing bad?
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(I mean also if it hailed 365 days a year it would be good for the Hail On My Dick Pervert, but...)
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Like I do not object to it getting hotter personally, but temperatures reaching new heights in a country not designed for it on any level is a problem lots of places are having/are going to have! Currently, god bless 60s council flat architecture, best of both worlds.
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I mean also it getting hotter in Britain has implications for places that aren't Britain which even myopically is going to affect Britain in not necessarily easy to content with ways
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Yeah but also on hot years all the grass in the green bits near me dies and becomes more likely to go on fire.
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I mean I guess the benefit of it not being an official Labour policy thing is afaik (i.e. not seen dunks here) haven't been too many KEIR STARMER IS GOING TO LET THEM KILL YER GRANNY things to gum up the objective
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That is... specific. They normally have about 20 different things on don't they?
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mm not sure about the practical politics of it but impression I had is that not very engaged people would assume the anti-side were all religious nuts, VS increasing numbers of people dealing with elderly relatives in horrible situations
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if he's always banging on about trump i'll really lose interest in his playlist of the year or whatever
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TBF I think responsibility for the discourse on this being very bad is more with mainstream newspaper journalists writing gushing articles where they're impressed that the computer told them how to make a cheese sandwich etc.
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You have to be a credulous rube or you have to set your computer on fire. Only options.
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"I asked chatGPT" well I inhaled a balloon
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Wow: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...
and then:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...
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I think you could get the cash back if you pushed but it certainly wasn't automatic. Also projects didn't have a specified end date I think, so effectively it failed when they decided to end it? (Some of this may have varied over the years.)
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also, lol, I have just remembered - they raised money for that Douglas Adams book *on Kickstarter*.
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Even as a Kickstarter clone there was always something slightly iffy about it - taking the money up front, and then if the project didn't succeed (IIRC) giving you credit rather than a refund, but the 'just trying to publish nice books' thing made it easier to squint that away.
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lol at "It's a bit PC [political correctness] going crazy again." sure!