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Wonderful , brilliant posting and comments! ( I think you meant dimmer instead of dinner though.) Great insights about memes and the power of humor. I recently stumbled on the comedy of Kyle Dunnigan, who proves your insights hilariously.

I remember ordering an ImpossibleBurger one time at a sandwich place I frequented that had really good food generally so I was tricked into trying it, thinking that it must be their house version of a vegan “gardenburger” sort of thing. Usually, of course, that is usually some kind of grain/bean patty of some sort. It was terrible. Later, when I found out that it was worse than I thought, I was really pissed off about the labeling as “burger.” It was a double bait and switch— a fake on top of a fake and I felt that I should have been warned. I went there for the quality in the first place and had personally praised the owner for the quality of his product in the past. So when I got that It was a WTF? Is going on here? They must have made a very generous initial offer to him to put it out there on his menu. So I can see how that product started to look like it was taking off at first and deservedly augered in shortly thereafter, if my experience is at all representative.

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I have a sneaky feeling that if we are saved, we will be hilariously saved by fuckups like shitty cheeseburgers, green-haired TikTok groomers and the producers of "Batwoman". The most optimistic feature of our enemies is that they consistently make stuff that sucks.

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I think there is definitely a relationship between hilarity and salvation. Consider the argument in the talk “Sex, Laughter, and God Realization “ by Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

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Heh. No, I meant 'some' but swipe typing combined with autocorrect to yield an odd result.

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