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Can't wait to get targeted adverts in my dreams.

Futurama already did it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Bs7EAzbzCNE

Maybe this is obvious, but are "Lightspeed Briefs" meant to be a pun on Fruit of the Loom (often abbreviated as FTL) and the scifi trope of FTL (faster than light) travel?

That was my thought when I first saw this episode many years ago and I can't tell if I'm reaching or it's one of those things that's obvious to everyone else.

I'd say it's highly likely that is an intentional pun. Several of the show's writing staff hold advanced STEM degrees. One of them wrote a mathematical proof specifically to include as a plot device in one episode[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Benda

Fastforward 20 years viagra ads will claim morning boners are thanks to them.

Can't wait until we grasp that 'can'!='should' and figure out how to leave things up to nature.

Are humans not part of nature?

Sometimes it feels like corporate advertising/marketing very much are not. Honestly, most of corporate America feels like soulless money robots, very much anti-human.

Possibly your concept of “human” needs updating, since “corporate America” still consists of mostly humans.

A cynicist's take would be that "corporate America", what with its laser-sharp focus on remorselessly exploiting everything and everyone for own profit, is actually very much human, as that is exactly what most humans have done since the very beginning.

“Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1881-1906)

You 'can' AutoTune and Grid the humanity right out of your music, 'should' you care to squeeze all the humanity out of your art.

If you include humans as part of nature, then isn't literally everything part of nature? The common phrase "let nature take its course" would have no meaning then.

You are correct, it has no meaning

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