It sucks that they turned this into a story about how great mass surveillance is

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When I was a kid, I definitely remember a more history-centric focus on the History Channel, although I remember even then (early 2000s) that they seemed to lean pretty heavily on WWII documentaries. It seemed every time I switched to the channel, one would be playing. It’s more or less been the way it is for the last decade or so, though.

Nah, it’s not much better during the day, either. HC runs either crackpot history/paranormal docs, reality shows, discussion about niche topics such as toys/modern architecture/etc., or war docs almost 24/7. In case anyone is wondering, here’s the next three days of programming scheduled for History Channel.

Saturday (Veterans’ Day):

12:03-1:06am - The UnXplained

1:06-3:04am - The Proof is Out There

3:04-4:01am - The UnXplained

4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming

7:00-1:00pm - WWII in HD

1:00-7:00pm - Vietnam in HD

7:00-8:00pm - Special, Variety Salute to Service 2023

8:00-10:03pm - Beyond the Battlefield

10:03-12:03am - Special, 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

Sunday

12:03-2:04am - Beyond the Battlefield

2:04-4:01am - Special, 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming

7:00-3:00pm - Modern Marvels

3:00-12:03am - The Toys that Built America

Monday

12:03-4:01am - The Toys that Built America

4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming

7:00-12:00pm - History’s Greatest Mysteries

12:00-4:00pm - Ancient Aliens Special Presentation

4:00-9:00pm - Ancient Aliens

9:00-11:05pm - Ancient Aliens Special Presentation

11:05-12:03am - Ancient Aliens (continues until 4am Tuesday)

Meanwhile, human feet.

Humans evolved to walk on Earth

Human feet curved

Round Earth confirmed

Checkmate, flat-earthers!

This chart really makes no sense at all. How does Lord of the Flies lie at the intersection of The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451?

One’s about an ultra-conservative theocracy, one’s about government surveillance and propaganda, and one’s about destroying books because people’s attention spans have reduced past the ability to read and they’re too long/confusing/depressing. I guess authoritarianism might lie at the heart of all these? Meanwhile, though, Lord of the Flies is more about the dangers of unchecked groupthink and how it can lead to violence and cruelty.

Whenever I get a capcha of anyone on a vehicle, I always make it a point to highlight the entirety of the driver too because I’m not going to just let Google train its self-driving vehicles to just ignore that every motorcycle has a rider on it.

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This must be somewhere in the Midwest, that’s the only place strange enough to think “theses” rhymes with “Reece’s”.

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The context is right there on the trailer.

“Look twice” is a phrase to raise driver awareness of motorcycle safety. Right below it, though kind of hard to see, it says “[MO]TORCYCLES”

Then there’s the Yamaha sticker. They make motorcycles (and musical instruments lol).

Finally, you think some deadly pathogen would just be transported in a flimsy-ass consumer grade trailer? How about some Occam’s razor?

To “cry wolf” is to unnecessarily raise the hue and cry (either on purpose, or through naïveté), something those taking this phrase literally are far more guilty of than the owner of this trailer.

If I say “Watch out, don’t hurt yourself thinking too hard,” that, like the above, would be understood as a joke even though it takes the form of a warning. It’s not my fault if you freak yourself out worrying about literally hurting yourself by thinking too hard.

Genie, for my first wish, I wish that everyone who has ever seen this photo or ever will can just look at the stickers right there on the bumper and see that this is just a joke about being obsessed with dirt bikes, not any kind of deadly pathogen or anything.

Seriously, it’s sad how many people over the years have taken the phrase written there far too literally.

Yeah, those kids aren’t even at the camp anymore, they all went out for a morning-after pill.

You’d think the internet would have come up with a new punchline than “Australia upside down lolz” since literally 2011, but here we are well over a decade later making the exact same jokes and pretending it’s still funny.

This shitposting community consistently disappoints me. Way too often, the actual shitposts only get a couple dozen upvotes. Meanwhile, we get tired, generic memes like this voted to the top. A shitpost isn’t just some random iFunny meme, but that’s all I ever seen to see coming out of here. The other top post right now is a years-old webcomic, not even edited to be a shitpost or anything.

A real classic! What wasn’t featured in the original news story was a passerby who had demolitions experience in the army in Vietnam. He approached the guy in charge of the job and explained that this would never work because when you detonate explosives in sand like they were going to, instead of blowing the whale entirely out to sea laterally, the blast would create a cone of explosive force straight upward and shear off massive chucks of whale hundreds of feet into the air, while leaving half the carcass basically untouched. Here’s a 25 year anniversary retrospective with some extra bits of fun info.

I don’t understand why they didn’t come at high tide and tow it miles out to sea using a couple tugboats. No dismemberment necessary, just a big strap around the tail-fin. Once miles from shore, the whale could be lanced to release the decomposition gasses and allow it to sink naturally where it could benefit the sea floor for decades. If they’d gone maybe 50ish miles offshore, that would have been proper deep sea abyssal zone and perfect for a whalefall.

Ok kids, let’s review the requisites for involuntary hospitalization in the US (specifically regarding suicidal ideation)!

Do you:

1. Have a plan? ✔️

2. Have the means to carry out that plan? ✔️

3. Expressed the intention to carry out that plan in the immediate future? ✔️

If all of the above are true and you tell your mental health professional, then you better pack those bags! If not, you get to go home.

(That said, I’ve at least heard stories of some mental health clinicians apparently not understanding these minimum guidelines and committing people involuntarily with only 1 or 2 of these requisites having been met, so it may be worth it to review these guidelines with your clinician before getting too deep into it)

While it’s kind of funny, I hate that this clip gets posted because it’s blatantly doctored. In the actual video, the kid calmly greets his opponent to the stage and plays a game with him with a significant time handicap. It wasn’t enough, though, and he refused to surrender even when it was clear he would run out of time. He only started crying once he officially lost.

“History is written by the victors” is a tired cliché that doesn’t always hold up super well if you spend a moment to consider it.

Who conquered Rome? Surely, it was a people remembered for their great military prowess, right? Nope, still commonly remembered as barbarians thousands of year later.

The Mongols had one of the largest empires in history, and yet in much of the lands they conquered, they’re remembered as being monstrously ugly brutes, which is where words like “mongoloid” and “mongrel” come from.

Song plays twice a day on the radio station my work is always tuned to. I only just learned awhile ago that Everlast is the same dude rapping in “Jump Around”.

Sounds like Europeans need to step up on being a dumpster fire if they want as much coverage as us. Be the change you want to see in the world!