Partially, yes. They allow Nestle to absorb a HUGE amount of their rationed water supply. Nestle doesn’t need to exist in California. It can exist in literally ANY state, most of which have no water shortages.

I’m not saying it’s an instant fix. I’m not saying boot Nestle and you’ll not have fires. But what I am saying is they’d have a more efficient firefighting crew if they didn’t have to worry about water shortages as much.

Another thing they just straight up shouldn’t allow is grass lawns in the part of California where the grass doesn’t naturally grow. There as some people, basically living in a desert, who import grass and use their rationing of water to maintain their unnatural grass lawn. And this isn’t the same as having a grass lawn that’s a little dry so you give it extra water. This is grass that just isn’t supposed to grow there, and CAN’T grow there…so they artificially enhance it’s ability to grow. If you’re grass can’t maintain itself using mostly just rain water, then it’s not in an environment where it should be living. That’s just depleting the already limited water rations. You don’t see Nevada trying to pretend they live in Michigan.

The thing about these devices is that during CES, you can’t trust ANYTHING you see/hear.

I remember seeing “foldable tv’s” on TechTV back when they did their CES coverage in 1998. This at a time when CRTs were the norm. They brought a tv out which was super thin. And then this guy just folded it in half, and even folded in half the picture looked the same. Then he folded it the other way. And Leo asked him “Now, whats the use case for this?”

And he said “Well, you could play multiplayer on your Nintendo 64. You could fold the TV so your little brother doesn’t cheat when you’re playing Mario 64 together”

And at age 14, I remember yelling at my mom from across the house that the guy on TV didn’t know what he was talking about. And my mom yelled back “THAT’S OK! I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT EITHER!”

And I yelled back “HE THINKS YOU CAN PLAY MARIO 64 IN MULTIPLAYER, AND FOLD THE TV IN HALF!”

And she yelled “YOU’RE NOT FOLDING MY TV!!!”

That’s when I realized I should just shut up. Mom has no idea what I’M talking about. CES guy has no idea what HE’S talking about. And Leo Laport was just looking confused.

I looked at the guys history. I don’t see him advertising anywhere. This particular comment doesn’t look like an ad so much as it does him trying to tell other people what to do about their problems.

Personally, I’m not a fan of telling others what to do, but also this isn’t the ad that you’re trying to report him for.

Whoosh.

Damn. My rent is 800, and it feels way too high. Should be like 600.

And do think. That guy on the roof was inches away last summer.

Dude…why is your rent 2K+?

No.

NOT SO FAST!!!

I feel like you’re right that they’d say these things, but it still makes me want to argue.

I guess I don’t want to argue you per se. I want to argue earth…for existing. All of this exists, and I have to live here.

I mean, just call them Idaho Fries at that point. Besides fufilling your criteria, it’s actually more accurate all around. The french fry was NEVER french in orgin. I have no idea how it got that name.

Same thing with fortune cookies. Go over to china, and it’s not a thing. They’d be so confused if you went to china and requested an individually wrapped crunchy pastry that comes with a sheet of paper which predicts your future, gives you lottory numbers, and teaches you to speak the local language. All for free because you ate a meal with them.

Yeah, when I put it in text form, it sounds insane, doesn’t it? Well, it’s also American in orgin.

I really hope he just dies. And not from a shooter. I don’t want his base to have him as a martyr. I want him to have a clogged artery, or a heart attack, and just his body gives out. With his lifestyle, and his eating habits, it wouldn’t be too hard to imagine. I mean, he LOVES McDonalds! He can’t even eat it when it’s hot out of the restaurant. He has to send someone to go get it. Which means he’s eating these fries cold, and the sandwiches are luke warm at BEST.

Which really goes to help explain how/why he served that basketball team plates and plates of hours cold McDonalds. THAT’S WHAT HE’S USED TO!!! THAT’S WHAT HE THINKS IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE!!!

Meanwhile, I’m 20-30 years younger, was raised on fast food, and now I can’t even eat beef because it gave me cancer. I’m doing my best to try to avoid the foods I’m NOT supposed to have, but that’s what I was raised on. That’s what I love. I’m also a former alcoholic who gave up drinking. Cold turkey. Imagine one day having to upend your entire palate, and eat only foods you don’t like. But I’m doing it. I know it’s what my body needs.

Meanwhile this guy is out here literally greasy with junk food, probably 100lbs heavier than I am, 20-30 years older than I am, and he’s just hoppin around just fine! While I had to spend almost a year of my life hooked up to radioactive bags to pump cancer drugs into me for days at a time, making me so weak at the time that some days I couldn’t even get out of bed.

AND THE GOVERNMENT SAID CANCER IS NOT A DISABILITY!!!

I hate this fat fuck for so many reasons. Many of which are probably shared by the vast majority of you here. But on a personal level I hate him for being the living embodiment of how NOT to take care of yourself, and he’s facing no consequences for it. I want the consequences. I want him to have to stop his lifestyle. If I can’t even cook my own 90% lean cheeseburgers, I damn sure want him to suffer not being able to eat fast food anymore.

Because everyday he doesn’t, it’s like saying to me “YOU can’t have the foods you love, because it’ll make your body sick. However, THIS GUY, who’s an irredeemable piece of shit can go ahead and do much much worse with zero consequences, because fuck you.”

So yeah. I want him to stuff his piggy little face, and just fall to the floor clutching his chest. I don’t want a shooter. I don’t want some agent of another government bombing him. I want his death to be his OWN doing. I want him for once in his god damn life to have to answer to consequences of his own actions. I’ve had to do it for years now. I don’t even recognize myself anymore based on my own habits now. Eating honey nut cherrios in the morning? What the fuck? What happened to a bacon double cheeseburger and a bottle of whiskey?

Oh, right. The consequences of my own actions treating my body like shit.

So…where’s his??? He’s been treating his body like shit for twice as long as I have. Where’s his consequence moment???

20 some years ago when that happened, I remember saying “What? That’s stupid…”. I was a teenager at the time. I was yelled at by adults saying “NO! IT’S NOT STUPID!!! WE’RE AMERICANS!!! FREEDOM FRIES ARE AN AMERICAN FOOD!!! WE GROW POTATOES IN IDAHO!!! NOT PARIS!!!”

Today, I’m 41. Teenager me wasn’t immature. Well, ok, I was, on a lot of things. But NOT on this. 41 year old me looks back and says teenager me was right.

This IS stupid.

French fries then, french fries now.

Ok, you had me for the first half…but then that last line threw me.

Bring on the sea people? What do mermaids have to do with this?

I know this may come as a shock to you, so please sit down before you read this, but adults do infact buy and use Nintendo consoles.

He said, as he tries talking down to a 41 year old, old enough to remember playing an NES in the 80s.

And then follows up with this gem:

I haven’t used a Switch since about 2018.

You can’t make this shit up. Or, well, I guess I personally can’t make this shit up. I’m not creative enough to create this level of self satire.

The only reason 2007 and 2012 were the biggest paid ppvs ever are because you’re using money paid rather than number of purchases.

It’s the same reason new movies always outsell the old movies. Doesn’t mean one movie or the other drew more relative money vs another movie. It just means if you saw Gone with the Wind in theaters, you likely paid around $0.75 for your ticket.

I’m sure The Emoji movie outsold Gone with the Wind. Movie tickets in 2012 were also closer to $12. Today tickets at my local cinema are closer to $18.

That means for every 1 person who saw The Emoji movie, 16 people would have to see Gone with the Wind to equal the same dollar amount.

If we compared PPVs sold, I’m CERTAIN Hulk Hogan is the leading draw of all time. His 80s run will forever be unmatched. His 90s NWO run was almost on par with his 80s run. Thenhe even had a decent nostolgia run in the 2000s.

Moneywise? No. An 80s PPV was $20. By 1997 it was $35, and by 2007 it was $90.

So yeah, dollars to sales don’t line up because of inflation/rising prices. But if we keep 1 buy = 1 buy, I’m positive Hogan is the all time sales draw. Rock would come close, if it weren’t for his constant long departures. You gotta remember, from 1975-2012, Hogan was almost always in pro-wrestling. Small gaps here and there, yes. But Rock left for multiple years at a time. And PPV wasn’t even a thing until 1986 or so. So he lost out on 11 years of ppv numbers because it wasn’t even invented yet.

That being said, Hogan is a slimy piece of shit, and I’m not endorsing him. Just stating facts about who sold tickets and ppvs.

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When I click a video, even if it’s a topic I’m interested in, if I hear that AI voice, I immediately click off. No engagement. No comments.

I was scrolling through the eshop deals page and found a game that was called “Real Hentai”

Now I have a tendancy to misread things, and misunderstand reality. So I read the title again.

Real Hentai.

Ok, I’m clearly not getting context here. What’s the app icon? Ok, it’s half naked hentai girls looking real thirsty.

Ok. I HAVE TO BE missing something here. I must be missing context.

Google search.

“Charming girls in Real Hentai are waiting for your touch. Immerse yourself in a world of high-quality images, where charming girls are waiting for you, demonstrating their seductive forms in the most intriguing poses! The game is created with an emphasis on visual details, conveying the feeling of assembling a real puzzle. As the difficulty increases, the images become more and more piquant. Relax and enjoy every moment of assembling the puzzle.”

Ok, no. I read that right. I understood it right. This game IS called Real Hentai, and it’s exactly what it sounds like. On a Nintendo system. Sometimes my brain refuses to believe things that are obviously NOT true. I call it my bullshit filter.

It’s just this time my brain flagged this as a false positive. That is to say my bullshit filter said “No. Something isn’t right here. Nintendo wouldn’t allow a hentai game on their eshop. Are you reading it wrong? I bet you’re reading it wrong.”

And my bullshit meter was REAL persistant that this was obviously fake. I mean, it’s a reasonable thought process, right? The same company that censored final fantasy on the nes, and also changed tapper to root beer tapper, and censored the hell out of their own games.

They want to be family friendly. They wouldn’t let porn on their system. It made sense for me to think that.

Nintendo let porn on their eshop. I didn’t bother checking the esrb rating. I assume M, or maybe even AO. Because I swear. If this thing is rated T, my bullshit filter won’t have a functioning barameter to know what’s real and what’s bullshit.

How do you filter out the bullshit, when the real world is a living breathing onion article come to life??? Even The Onion wouldn’t accuse NINTENDO of peddling smut! The satire has to at least be BELIEVABLE!!!

Screw that! I wanna make boom boom in others pants!