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We do the fun parts taken from Yule (trees/greenery/lights) and Saturnalia (feasting). I think at this point it’s more a celebration of managing to make it through another year than anything else.

Oh so that’s what happened to Duke Nukem.

I will watch a Joy of Painting episode anytime I come across one on PBS (they stream on YouTube but it’s more fun to find it “in the wild”)

Lottery tickets.

They’re basically just a tax on the dumb. But man the slogans — all you need is a dollar and a dream, you gotta be in it to win it, etc. — sheer marketing genius.

This, but Omni Man is talking to himself.

Are there people who don’t do this?

see: The Good Place

I hope they’ve properly licensed that character design.

I’m from a very Italian neighborhood. Angelo is a common name, if you’re feeling a bit ethnic and don’t want to stray too far from what you grew up with. Plus you’d get to learn all the hand gestures.

IRC is still around. I have no data but would guess more people use it now than in the “heyday” (mainly just because there are a lot more people online)

Usually at these events there are staff who constantly look around for people who might be recording, and they don’t hesitate to kick you out if you’re caught more than once. So it’s possible if you have a decent number of people who are good about being sneaky and have covert equipment, but not easy.

It makes you wonder what will happen when more people start wearing smart AR glasses that can record everything and barely look any different than regular glasses.

Taekwando-unto-others

(yes, which I know is Korean and not Japanese)

I think it just means an occupation ie something you do to earn money – as opposed to the jobs we do around the house in the course of taking care of ourselves. Regardless yes it’s inane. (we should be eating healthy tho, regardless of religious affiliation)

There will be a follow up bill called Act to Mandate Aggressive Zero-Exception Bans on Anonymous Login & Secure Networks that makes VPNs, TOR, etc illegal. I think they’re working on it in the UK already.