When they’re both Christians, Jesus just picks his favorite. If you lose you know that you’re not jesus’s favorite. Sorry that’s just the way it is. Loser.

Seeing that face “in the wild” blew my damn mind.

Is that Bobby Hill?!

Fuck Spez… amirite ? Guys?

And probably drugs.

There is probably some secret rich person drug that they’re all doing that makes them this way. We’ll find out about it in a few decades.

Like lead in gasoline

The Hallmark movies are mostly filmed in one of the whitest basic beige towns in British Columbia. It would be difficult to find someone. They do have an east Asian population but it’s small.

They don’t need anything nearly as complicated as GPT LLMs . They already generate these scripts with a MS Word macro. It’s been like that for years.

Once in a while the source dictionary is updated. They sell the scripts in lots of like 20 and charge for any customized work.

I’m certain those books work the same way.

If you can think of a way that reduces work and increases profits. They are already doing it.

A common British cooking technique…

Gamers continue to buy the games by publishers that do this and will continue to put up with it as they slowly boil like frogs.

It’s difficult to fight the slow conditioning that started with horse armor and Farmville. There’s no escaping it until we replace capitalism with something better.

They have a donation thing and you can setup a monthly donation. It’s gives you a badge in the app.

Of all the services asking me for a monthly fee. $5 for a non-profit private communication tool is a no brainer.

The problem is not a technology one, and creating a copy of the thing you hate isn’t going to get different results.

I never expected it to be better than reddit, actually I expected it to make things much worse through increased isolation of mobs. It does.

Only thing an individual can do is be the change they want to see and be nice to people, and resist the urge to “other” everyone they interact with.

That said… if this is OPs lived experience we should be happy for them. They’re having a positive experience that we all want.

Well. This beats the response I was gonna write. I might just copy this for regular use though.

The way employers work. There is no such thing as satisfied. By definition they want every single ounce of your existence to be spent on their enrichment. I’m pretty certain salaries were invented as a mental wedge to expect more and more for the same money.

I think people are underestimating how important the YouTube thing is.

If they succeed, the entire ad funded internet are going to clone what they do.

It will effect everyone everywhere, whether you run an adblocker or not.

It will benefit the large corporations and choke out the smaller people. It will consolidate control and wealth.

Yarr? Yarr. Yarrr!!

So far. If YouTube wins the adblock fight it’s running. It means the end of adblockers.

Because once they do it. Everyone will. We won’t be able “just go somewhere else”

Canine are also persistence hunters, bears can be as well. I still like the comic though.

They call “refusing to be exploited” piracy. Generally industries where there are huge monopolies like media, groceries, and other such thing are most sensitive to this because they lack the ability to deal with outside pressures any more.

Vilifying people fighting back is the cheapest way to manage this.

I’m kinda looking forward to seeing what replaces things like Netflix and Spotify