I choose:

The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands … strapped [their dead] to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excarnation

Story idea: a criminal organization focused on giving people the funerals/burials they want, regardless of legality.

Choices we make em
Chances we take em
Some are mistakes
Some we celebrate em
We don’t look back 'cause
So much we’re facing
I always stay proud of myself
I’m yelling: FUCK REGRET!

• Insane Clown Posse

Seems like it could be cool, or it could be just a bunch of cliches. hard to tell so far.

Oh. Uh… I thought it was supposed to be funny in the “me_irl” way…

Maybe they will take us along as servants? Oh, no, they will build robots for that…

Let me know when the first colony is formed, then I can get excited.

It will only be open to billionaires. Or to people there to make money for billionaires. That’s why I’m not excited.

I don’t really like manga, but one of the best stories I’ve ever read in any format is the 7-volume Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. It’s post-apocalyptic fantasy about the nature of evil, the corruption of humanity, the extent to which individuals can fight against historical forces, and the fragility of civilization, for a start. Plus there’s a lot of action and world-building. There’s an anime movie which covers about one tenth of the story, if you want to get a feel for it.

Recently I’ve been thinking one of the best things Alan Moore has written is the original 12-issue series Top 10. It just has certain characters and events that stuck in my mind.

Kind of a mix of Hunger Games, Attack on Titan, and Avatar: the Last Airbender? Not sure how to feel about it. From looking at youtube comments, looks like they couldn’t afford to buy a social media team to hype it either. Seems to be a Serbian/Croatian production, which could be interesting.

Somehow I feel more “represented” by VLC than I do by any of the astronauts.

ikr the more I think of it, the premise of @blarghly@lemmy.world 's story is flawed.

Mid-sized midwestern cities usually have 1-2 universities and often a couple smaller colleges too, which means at least 1 walkable neighborhood with cafes and art galleries and smaller concert venues and populations of people who graduated and stuck around to form co-ops and quirky small businesses because they like the quality of life and cost of living. Not to mention most major acts tour all those cities.

Pharmacy tech? I can easily think of 3 friends who I wish had a job that good. iirc it requires a background check, so that means if you got that job then you don’t have a prison record nor do you have a drug habit that would lead you to start swiping the opiates.

“Sure, it might be a little cringe to see an older person dressing alt,” Sergio said as he looked in the mirror. But you know what? There’s a whole legion of people who don’t care about that, who wear dark clothes and fishnets and dark makeup, who make it a point of pride that they can’t be touched by those people who think that they’re underachievers, those people who call them scrubs, who think that they’re too fat or too poor or wear clothes that don’t quite fit… YES! Crack open a Faygo and put Milenko on loop! For the MC of the story will always be welcome among the JUGGALOS!!! WHOOP WHOOP MMFCL !juggalos@lemmy.world !!!

Reminds me of the poem “Whitey on the Moon” (more timely than ever!): https://youtu.be/3nzoPopQ7V0?t=23

a problem entirely fabricated by YT

I agree with your basic point, tho to be fair, server costs are a thing, so it’s more like a problem fabricated by… capitalism? the commercialization of the internet? The centralization of resources? I guess it depends on what you think the long-term solution is.

brand recognition. IOW, when you are at the grocery store, you think of Coke in general rather than any specific ads.

Agreed. More specifically, I think brand association plays a part. Even if you never drink cola of any type, the ads make you think “Coke is the kind of drink for people who (whatever)”. Then when you see your friend drinking one you say “Oh you drink coke? I guess you’re the kind of person who (whatever the ad campaign says).” It’s really insiduous.

Some of those old books had ads for cigarettes in them! Mostly the cheaper paperbacks. For some reason it wasn’t as annoying, it was more of a historical artifact, an indication of the context in which the book was originally read.

I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.

I notice that I don’t pay attention to videos as much any more. It’s just stuff playing in the background while I game or edit an image or browse piefed or something. So if it “hangs” for a couple seconds while ublock fights the ads, it doesn’t really bother me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification