Capitalism also occurred in China though, so that cannot be the reason by European colonisation occurred.

The Chinese Han culture absolutely set out to colonise, conquer and subjugated other areas. Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia and Manchuria were all conquered during the Qing dynasty and Zhang He projected power and subjugated city states and cultures during his many naval expeditions out.

Colonisation was common all across all cultures. Look at how the Aztec acted towards their many neighbours.

The reason European colonisation was so “successful” was just a “lucky” fluke of circumstances and technological evolution. Had the same conditions occurred in China first, Europeans would all have been subjugated by them. Not because the many Chinese cultures are worse or better than ours but simply because it’s been an incredibly commonplace activity across all cultures. The European colonisation was just the most “successful”.

That was the foundational concept in powershell; everything is an object. They then went a ruined it with insane syntax and a somewhat logical, but entirely in practiceimpractical verb-noun command structure.

Nushell is powershell for humans. And helps that it runs across all systems. It’s one of the first things I install.

Yes I actually agree. Moss is definitely the butt of some jokes, but he gets so much love in other places that I can stomach it, despite feeling like the show isn’t always completely kind to him.

Yes, I agree.

But I think you need to see it in the larger context. Episode 1, and much of season 1 (series 1 as we would call it here in the UK), is about moving into their world so we get to known them and appreciate them. Jen is the viewers’ guide into this world and her journey towards becoming one of them is the viewer’s journey. So what starts as a laugh at geeks ends up sympathising with the geeks (“but we did all the work!!”) and becoming the geeks (observe how Jen’s office starts as a managers office but slowly ends up with Manga artwork).

So her laughing at the geeks, and her inability to understand them (white noise), is crucial because it takes the viewer’s hand and leads them into the basement.

Well let’s start with the jokes. They are just subjectively funnier, with many tie-backs and connections (Seinfeld/CYE long running set ups).

TITC is laughing at the normies and celebrating the geeks. TITC isn’t afraid to be really funny, which means recognising the human condition and laughing with it. The characters aren’t “good people who fail”, they are “humans who fail”, which mean we recognise them and empathise with them. Who hasn’t wanted to give a really impressive speech and said some bullshit.

BBT is bland. The characters are bland, with only external failures. The jokes dare not really poke fun at anyone and the jokes are sentence-long. Finally the actors and the script just aren’t as out there, so it all just feels dull as dishwater.

All episodes had live audience. Doesn’t mean all the laughter is real laughter, though, but there was definitely a live audience.

Comparing The IT Crowd to The Big Bang Theory is like comparing Pavarotti to a braying lamb.

BBT is the braying lamb, for the avoidance of doubt.

Coming up to 20 years, 17 years married.

How dare you use facts to challenge our beliefs!!

First thing I do to a tv is flick it into a colour graded mode and flick all motion smoothing off.

Agree that it’s HDR, not actually resolution that makes that much difference.

And you don’t think this happens in China?

How much have you travelled, lived and worked in China? How far outside the tier 1 cities have you gotten?

If you think every criticism of China is just liberal talking points, I assume the answers to those questions are all “not very much”.

I agree that it would make more sense if they called it a “household” plan. That’s clearly what it is.

By Darwin you see a lot. I was merely stating that I think YouTube premium is worth the price I pay for it.

Is there no product you are satisfied with? Your life must be pretty bleak.

Is recommending a product that you’re satisfied with “shilling”?

Is there a product in this world that you think is worth the price? Does that make you a shill?

You mean removing sponsor led segments inside a video? Sort of. The jump ahead feature, which I think is a premium feature, allows you to jump in the video based on where everywhere else is jumping in the video. So when a sponsored segment starts and you skip forward 30s (double tap on mobile, ‘k’ on PC) you are offered to jump ahead. You click that and you get to the end of the sponsored segment.

YouTube steals other people’s work?

I tend to watch content creators who willingly put their content on YouTube. Am I missing something here…?

I know. I thought we were upvoting respectful debate, not having a popularity contest. But apparently not…