The tech community came up with a technical solution to the ad problem. If the solution you’re looking for isn’t technical, why is your focus on the tech community?

Anyone can learn this shit. Use any search engine, type “how to block internet ads”, and you’ll see results with “firefox” and “ublock origin”, that can then be put into “how to get” follow up searches.

The current state of ads is being accepted by those who don’t block them. Everyone who does block them (or refuses to visit ad cancer sites) has cut off that source of revenue, but those who just choose to accept the default option enable them by not just seeing the ads but even sometimes clicking them and buying shit.

Ad blockers are the fight. Those users who can’t be bothered to learn a bit about the devices they spend so much time on aren’t owed anything.

What does “fighting the good fight” even look like to you in this context, anyways?

Meanwhile, it was my familiarity with their products that drove me to Linux.

Oh but the fees are non-zero!

Ah so it does, didn’t even notice that X all detached from the login prompt like that.

Anyone got a mirror that doesn’t require a fucking Instagram account?

Edit: YouTube short but at least it doesn’t try to beg for a login: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xL8gdhw4q5I

if (ai_price < min_price) price_quote = min_price; else price_quote = ai_price;

price_quote *= 1.5; // for some reason the ai underestimates what the user can afford so bump it up

Hope lots of people keep asking him about why covid patients kept getting sent to nursing homes that were not prepared to care for them back in 2020. He was looking so good with those daily updates until it became clear they were avoiding or downplaying that question.

Yeah +1 on “it started slow but got better”. Not amazing or anything, but good enough that I wished there was more when I got to the last ep. But I do remember thinking it was bad early on and just kept watching out of boredom more than anything else.

It’s been on this path since at least hubble. Though it might have accelerated.

The universe spontaneously popped into exitence in the current state it’s in when you’re reading this, the only things that exist are what’s in your line of sight, all the memories are made up, and it’ll shortly pop back out of existence only to return a few billion years or femtoseconds later with a new line of sight and memories, along with something to let you know what’s really happening but with enough plausible deniability that you’ll laugh and try to move on before popping back out of existence.

This is your eternal punishment for something you can’t even remember, or can’t verify even if you do remember.

How would you even know this? you might wonder with a hint of uncertain dread, but the truth is I don’t know anything because I don’t even exist. It’s all you: punisher, punishee, neutral observer, entertained by this meaningless repetition that bored you out of your mind lol.

Or shall we let this one play out a bit longer?

“Luckily there was a loophole in those rules that I (omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient) made.”

If that doesn’t scream, “made up by the clerics trying to avoid contradicting each other and bringing the whole house of lying cards down as they went”, just keep sending money to your church. Because if a god needs anything, it’s obviously worldly riches and unquestioning loyalty. We need these churches to impress everyone with the power of our god, but he’s sleepy after making it all and throwing tantrums bigger than we can imagine because people were acting like the way he made them capable of acting, like cartoon villains in some cases, like a whole city whose first reaction to seeing an angel was “Let’s all rape it!” So that’s why you need to send your money without any questions!

It’s not even the squirrels you need to worry about directly, it’s any fleas or biting bugs (can ticks carry it?) that have recently bitten one of those squirrels.

There was a series on Netflix that used this. It was alright though probably got cancelled. Can’t remember the name of it.

Unless it’s to give them physical support getting through a voting line designed to make people wonder if they should leave the line for survival sake. In which case they don’t want anyone doing it, homeless or not.

He was getting paid peanuts for designing and building an essential system for the running of the park all on his own, working for a guy that constantly bragged about sparing no expense.

IIRC the only interaction between Hammond and Nerdy went something like “you should have negotiated a better contract! Stfu gbtw”, which can pretty much sum up the whole wealth divide between the owners who gain most of the benefit and the workers who actually do the things under capitalism. Except if they aren’t getting the better of everyone on average, they just shut the whole thing down or find others that they do get the better of.

Yeah, the showing off is what I was getting at. The first experiment seemed more like an experiment and an accident but the demonstrations with the screwdriver seemed more like someone doing pull-ups over a fatal drop just to show how badass they are and accidentally landing on other people on the bottom when he slipped.

Thanks for the in depth response though, this gives more context to this than I’ve had before.

And just guessing on the other two attitudes before looking anything up (haha maybe wanting to challenge my intuition like this instead of just looking it up is one), one is probably related to laziness (eg assuming something is fine and doesn’t need to be checked when going through the pre flight checklist). And maybe the other is being too trusting or not assertive enough (eg colleague says something is OK, you don’t fully believe them but don’t challenge them on it). Am I close?

What was the point of these approaching criticality experiments anyways?

Has it ever been proven in any of the shows that the transporter didn’t kill everyone that used it and just made such prefect copies that no one realized?

Like it created an extra copy of Riker and there was the tragedy of Tuvix. Though I’d say the former is evidence that it is new copies but the latter might be evidence against it, since they each had memories of their time merged when they separated. Actually, that whole incident kinda brings into question what’s going on for a transporter to accidentally merge two people and not in a “horrible teleportation into a wall accident” way and then somehow de-merge them.

Rick rolls saved the internet from random goatse/tubgurl/2girls1cup.