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it is a genuine health and safety risk to not allow people to block ads. if you feel the need to clockwork orange people into watching the ads that you’re getting money for whether we see them or not then like. idk. drop dead or something im too tired to think of a good insult
USPS was completely self-sustaining until 2006, when Congress inexplicably began requiring it to pre-fund retirement health benefits for all of its eligible employees and retirees, 75 years in advance. This unprecedented requirement cost USPS more than $5 billion per year for 16 years … which is almost exactly the amount they were in debt.
And still, USPS maintains First Class mail delivery to every household in the country within 5 days for less than a dollar. No private carrier comes close to their price point (which USPS actually doesn’t control), and many of them actually use USPS as their “last mile” carrier in rural areas where it’s too costly for them to operate.
I do have to impress on anyone who wasn’t around for it how batshit the reality boom of the 2000s could be. Especially on Fox.
Here are some 100% real 2000s reality shows:
Who’s Your Daddy? A woman has to guess which of eight men is her biological father. One of them really is, and if she guesses right she wins $100,000. If one of the seven fake dads convinces her to guess them, he wins $100,000.
Black. White. A white family learns about racism by living a month in blackface, while a black family spends a month in whiteface. The black family was a real family, but the white family was just some actors hired to put on blackface to prove racism exists
Welcome to the Neighborhood. Three conservative white families in a Austin subdivision decide which diverse family gets to move in. Unaired due to being literal housing discrimination
Seriously, Dude, I’m Gay. Two straight men try to pass themselves off as gay and whoever seems more gay gets $50,000. Unaired due to. Due to. Due to
Playing It Straight. A woman tries to find love among fourteen men, half of whom are straight and half of whom are gay, and she must eliminate two men she believes are gay each week. If she ended up picking a straight man in the end, they’d split a million dollars; if she picked a gay man, he’d win a million dollars
Boy Meets Boy. This was Playing It Straight but starring a gay man and he had to eliminate straight people
Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? He wasn’t a multimillionaire. He didn’t even have a million dollars in liquid assets. He had a battery conviction Fox claims they didn’t see. Because it was the 2000s, somehow this ended up with the woman he won being widely vilified and turned into a national punchline. How dare she complain about a massive corporation tricking her into marrying a lying abuser, good thing Matt Lauer’s there to take her down a peg
The Swan. A “ugly” woman is given plastic surgery and wins a prize if she’s the hottest at the end of the season. If she’s not hot enough by the show’s standards she’s eliminated and called ugly on national TV
The Biggest Loser. Overweight people engage in competitive crash weight loss that often led to awful health complications. Studies showed basically everyone on the show regained any weight they lost once it was over and they didn’t have abusive trainers demanding they take huge health risks to win a competitive weight loss competition. Like the others, this one was cancel-oh, it was a massive hit that ran for 18 seasons? Yikes!
Wife Swap and Trading Spouses. These were the same show and had a wife from one family go to another family that was different politically, racially, culturally, religiously etc. Most famous for the God Warrior
At the time people focused on the likes of Fear Factor but looking back it’s wild how many of the worst shows toyed with politics. So many of these shows have a premise that’s like “what if we exposed these conservatives to these people they hate?” or hyping themselves up as Important Experiments. Then they’d freak out when they got the kind of viral bigoted freakout they were trying to construct the whole time.
There were also a bunch of horrible reality shows, thankfully this time mostly unpopular, in the 2010s that based themselves around economic themes as a response to the market crash, but that’s a story for another time
For the notes: these shows all predate the 2007-8 writers’ strike. They’re not ~because of the strike~. The early 2000s were just. That awful.
Amish Mafia.
Amish. Mafia.
This was a thing that existed.
Fuck. Now I’m starting to remember the Amish Mafia commercials and how dumb they were.
if I must suffer, so must you all!
And remember, the guy who came up with that show is the guy whose currently in charge of Warner Brothers.
Yes, the guy who axed the Batgirl movie, who is pulling all your favorite animated shows off of Streaming to save a buck, its the guy behind this bullshit.
A job I was applying for mentioned I would be working with something called a “frosted flatwoods salamander”, which sounded positively delightful, so I looked them up and I could not be more pleased with what this beast looks like
Jalter is a special case, because her existence is a contradiction. She’s neither factual, historical, pure or “human” in the sense of what the saintly Jeanne d'Arc (Jormal) is supposed to be. She was forced into existence by Gilles de Rais and is based on his impressions of how he thinks Jeanne should be, so Jalter is essentially a counterfeit version of Jormal. As a result, Jalter was not meant to be and was never supposed to be; she is a paradox. Although she manages to argue herself around this point in the Da Vinci event, she establishes herself as a summonable servant and will only answer to Ritsuka’s (FGO protag) call.
Jancer was supposed to work around this issue, because she is a distorted version of Jeanne d'Arc, which means she can be summoned outside of FGO, whereas Jalter is a completely separate person with her own identity and mind.
