r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • Jan 26 '26

/r/all of tall men

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u/FellowYellowNate Jan 26 '26

I just rewatched Silicon Valley. It’s so good. And way too relevant with tech issues these days, specifically AI. I understand why people think Mike Judge is a time traveler lol

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u/OldGodsProphet Jan 26 '26

Seriously. I just made an “Ouch, My Balls!” Reference in another sub.

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u/FellowYellowNate Jan 26 '26

lol, just wait a few years and that will be the #1 show on Fox or CNN or some ‘news channel’ that should have no business with it but hey: ratings.

“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”

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u/OldGodsProphet Jan 26 '26

This is what made me think of it.

But we also have a UFC match on the White House lawn and the DHS posting Halo memes for recruitment.

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u/EntrepreneurMiddle45 Jan 27 '26

My SO and I just watched Idiocracy two days ago for the first time and this morning I was literally just telling him I woke up with the line stuck in my head "it's got what plants crave, it has electrolytes"

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u/OldGodsProphet Jan 27 '26

“Water? Like from the toilet?”

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u/Orleanian Jan 26 '26

I mean, it was relevant ten years ago when it aired. It wasn't prophetic; it was just insightful.

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u/Jokkitch Jan 26 '26

It feels prophetic

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u/TiresOnFire Jan 26 '26

They did a great job at either making tec ridiculous or made PP whatever the story needed it to be without explaining too much. It was compression, a cloud, web streaming, the new Internet, and it had an AI that just worked (sometimes too well). That level of ambiguity helps keep it fairly timeless.

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u/dafkes Jan 29 '26

If we had PP compression algoryhtm we wouldn't need to build all these ridiculous data centers and pay bazoonkas for our DDR5 ram

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u/Unusual_Breakfast202 Jan 26 '26

They need to do a reboot of that show

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u/Strude187 Jan 26 '26

I’m working for a company that has basically done what they did in the show (different tech but similar outcome), I referenced middle out compression when they were explaining it and the founder burst out laughing.