skulblaka

Recently, eh?

You consider the 1800’s recent? Because there were news articles reporting on the issue back then.

Here’s an article from 1896 for you to read over, provided you care about learning how you’re wrong.

Burn corpo shit

From a user front-end standpoint, just collate all posts with identical links and then make a tabbed system for comments. Lemmy.ml comments are on this tab, kbin.social comments are on this tab, etc etc. Seems like by far the easiest way to present it without (accidentally or otherwise) force-federating all of the source material. This could even pretty easily (“easily”, yeah I’ll get right on that) be done within the app if not done in the lemmy/kbin source code directly.

Forgot to mention the part where that democratic society is upheld by the fact that you can (and will, if you’re an asshole) be stabbed dead by nearly anyone you interact with. Your own crew, your “customers”, the law, rival pirates, all of them have a will and a way of removing you if you don’t play fair. This is great for ensuring a fair society, only at the constant imminent risk of death.

Although to be fair I suppose cowboys and samurai were also pretty frequently in deadly dangerous conditions.

They almost certainly won’t follow it up. It was an excellent running gag for re-entry but I expect from here forward we will have more “regular” Futurama.

Honestly though, I thought it was great and would have been a little disappointed if they didn’t at least lampshade their 10 year absence. Making it such a central joke was unexpected but welcome and it didn’t wear out its welcome.

I think OP is missing the point that TV, most especially animated comedy, has always been “meta” and makes references to the trends and cultural shifts of their day. Just look at Simpsons or South Park or Family Guy and see how often they reference events that were current at the time of the episode. Futurama has always had its own plotlines but hasn’t been above poking fun at current events of the past.

Bring back capes. I want a big fur cloak in the winter.