It was really strange. Thankfully things were slightly better by the 90s when the central division was added, but that still had weird groupings like Houston/Pittsburgh (or Miami/Montreal).

Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood). For my generation, he helped to shape our views on kindness and compassion for humankind. He fought for public access funding in the United States. He helped break color barriers on television. He helped us enjoy jazz.

I have not encountered another media personality who was so genuinely invested in making sure that kids had the tools they needed to deal with the emotional parts of existence. I'm tearing up again thinking about how much he did for us.

Yup. No matter how hard the PC tries, just pan over to the fireplace and fade to black: https://youtu.be/v7eJEsf11WM (had to include the obligatory Top Secret! clip)

The imperial system doesn't have any electromagnetism units that I'm aware of, so they borrow from SI.

I'm not sure if this is sarcastic, since I have neighbors just like this. (I hope it is sarcastic)

It's a graph of this: https://youtu.be/G7RgN9ijwE4

I'm not the original person in the thread, but I'm pretty anti-piracy. However, the bulk of my media spending is on musicians (with direct buying from an artist being my primary means of purchase).

With that said, I absolutely understand why so many people pirate movies/tv. Streaming for those is an absolute shit show.

We don't have to send him to another country. Just put him on a raft in the middle of the ocean.

Have you never been approached by a weird dude at a gas station who is selling "fresh" meat out of a cooler in the trunk of his car?

We live in very different places. (Not sarcasm, this has happened to me about a dozen times)

I hope it's a callback to this gem:

Cable Internet / DOCSIS splits bandwidth in a way that greatly prioritizes download over upload.

He is the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40k