This is a great time to support people like Olan Rogers who have worked for all the majors and are bucking the system. He funded his latest animated series pilot through kickstarter and is getting funding for the rest of the episodes now. Imagine that: paying creative people in advance and bypassing the corporate bullshit. He’s even left kickstarter behind now to take payments directly. https://godspeedseries.com/

Also with mentioning when Alan Tudyk did the same with Con Man, a comedy tribute to the Firefly fandom that was fan-financed for 2 seasons.

Helluva Boss doing quite well too.

You may not hear about shows like these because promotion is just not worth throwing any money at… The following is already grassroots and the powers that be make it tough to compete against their ads. But there is quality stuff being made by directly funding film makers. There just needs to be more ways of finding funds for up and coming talent.

(And there needs to be a better place to release non network shows than YouTube, but that’s a whole other can of worms)

This is the sobering reality for many a hometown hero of physical sports too. Being the best in your city, 1 in a million even, puts you in tight competition in college sports and then worse as a pro.

On behalf of the dads: We used to let you win all kinds of shit and you never knew! Then one day we couldn’t beat your anymore… and we had two choices while you gloated: convince ourselves we let you win or let the mid life crisis begin.

If you’re looking at the Senate it’s actually the other way around in the last decade. With the house and other offices it’s much harder to say who does it more. I don’t think it’s any sort of conspiracy or playbook, just something that makes the news and sticks in people’s memory when it happens… It’s a betrayal after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_party_switchers_in_the_United_States.

I used to flex on the gigabytes my collection required. Now it seems like bragging about the length of your buggy whip. Kinda wish I’d stuck to it though… Now I’m just the curator of a big pre-millennium library.

TD;DR:
Before jumping to conclusions realize that:
1-6: incest ain’t so bad.

Thanks for posting that. I think it sums up the double speak nicely.

Somebody’s brought a Yamaha cp80 to Afghanistan only to have it burned. I suppose this somehow helps allah

Best day of their life

Meh, scatters gonna scat. I’m more interested in when space faring future people with vacuum toilets contemplate the origins of the poop knife.

The DarkGPT ages. All knowledge from this time must be questioned.

It wasn’t a play on words. PEPFAR had bipartisan support until recent months when heritage foundation decided to target it for made-up abortion fears. It was truly keeping it real by just being a health benefit program for countries that needed help fighting aids and it has saved millions of lives. But 20 years later in today’s political climate it is somehow controversial.

I wondered how long it would take you to get here

“Westoids” didn’t invent homosexuality. Nor did colonialists. Plenty of societies had no problems with it, long before current religions condemned it. Plenty of cruel leaders have tried to exterminate gays from their populations but you can’t breed it out or kill it out, only oppress it temporarily. It is a fundamental part of being human and always has been.

“Travel is fatal…” - Mark Twain.

/s

And also doesn’t write his own songs