morgan423

The video game and tech industries as well. Record profits, let’s cut a bunch of jobs.

What does cigarette smoking do for people?

Gives them an assortment of cancers with a side of breathing and cardio issues.

You can’t really describe colors to someone blind from birth. They just have no reference or mechanical ability to be able to see it.

Someone below linked a Tommy Edison video (it’s a good watch, as is pretty much everything on his entire channel) where he talks about how people have tried to describe color to him all his life, but nothing they’ve said has ever actually made him see a color. He doesn’t see anything, he doesn’t have a working optic nerve.

Sounds like the recipe to gain a Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask moon to me.

The debate shouldn’t be about voting for the lesser of two evils. The entire debate should be focused on opening up more options and the actual ability to vote for third party candidates without throwing your vote away, by implementing a different system, like ranked choice voting.

Continuing to focus on which Sith lord will blow up the country the least if elected is a losing play. We have to do better and focus our attention elsewhere if we have any chance of getting anything reformed.

From experience, I can tell you that your bag is safe lol

They are designed so that the angle of the spray comes nowhere near there. You’d have to do some sort of gymnastics moves to be able to whack the piñata with it.

If nothing else… $$$.

People can get a well-working, basic washlet / bidet to install under their toilet seat for as little as $20 - $30 USD on Amazon. It reduces your TP usage so much that it will pay for itself within a year at most… likely faster.

I used to go through several rolls a week (I felt like I was personally killing a rainforest, but I can’t stand not being clean). After installing my first bidet a few weeks back, I now only use a little to dry, and to double-check that I didn’t miss anything. I’d estimate that it reduced my TP usage by probably 80 to 90%.

That’s going to be a not insignificant chunk of change saved over the years.

Oh yes, it’s horrible.

At this point, I only have 2 subreddits that are periodically checked, and you’d best believe I use old Reddit to do so. Only a matter of time before they kill that off as well though.

There are actually specific words in the English language for precisely what you’re talking about.

Endonym - The native name of a geologic feature or place. From your example: Nihon in Japanese.

Exonym - The foreign name of a geologic feature or place. From your example: Japan in English.

Right, that wasn’t in question. I was responding to this poster saying that if he won the election, he’d pardon himself and not go to prison. I was just reminding him that Trump would not have that option for state crimes. So he’d be using an 8x6 cell instead of the Oval Office.

Except that he could be convicted before the election in New York and Georgia.

POTUS has no pardon power over state crimes.

Leagues like MLB make it really difficult to consume their content, with all the stupid side deals and blackout restrictions. Sometimes it’s like they force you to seek alternatives. Or, just not watch at all.

Yep, default mode for me too… at home.

NOT on public toilets though… I’m sorry gentlemen, I just can’t trust you all and feel safe that I’m not sitting on ten gallons of dried-up stranger urine. Public toilets are a stand-and-go every time.

I’m fine with my landlord raising my rent each year.

By the actual rate of inflation.

Funny how that never seems to happen, and they go shooting way past that. Hmmmmm.

It’s no longer the top post of all time for Lemmy!

It was always destined to move to #2. After the three days had elapsed, of course.

That doesn’t fix YouTube’s core issues with the ads that they run, impacting every free user without an ad blocker: 1) Not 100% safe 2) Unscrupulous advertisers, sometimes running scam ads 3) Poor user experience re: ads (far too many in general, and multiple mid-roll ads per video make for a horrendous time).

I’m not going to reward them for these misbehaviors toward their user base by buying their “Premium” service. Same for any other site that does this and offers a “Premium service” to fix the problem that they, themselves, created. There are ways to have safe ads, and fair user experience even with them in play.

It might seem that way (especially if you subscribe to the Reddit-discussing communities here; I did that at first, but got tired of seeing the same five convos happening a gazillion times, so I unsubscribed them, and that mainly solved the problem).

I went out into the community search, found a bunch of stuff I’m interested in, joined those places, and have been having some good interactions so far. So that’s what I’d recommend.

I don’t think you understood what I was saying.

I try to take no ads, from anyone, because it’s a digital safety issue. YouTube included.

Google needs to understand, that is not a choice that they have.

So much of the internet is covered by sites that don’t take the time the vet their advertisers and the ads that are being placed on their platform.

Advertisers who, in turn, advertise on legit sites spreading scams and malware wherever they go, and Google and YouTube are no exception to this. These companies really brought The Age of the AdBlocker on themselves, by not making sure that the ads they are allowing on their platforms are safe for users.

So now, me and about a bajillion other people are in a position where we don’t go out onto the internet anymore without protection. Ad blockers for everyone.

So, YouTube’s actual choice is this: do they want me to continue to visit their site and drive their traffic metrics?

Because that’s all they are getting from me, and if they find a way to disable all ad blockers, than they are clearly saying that they don’t want me and others like me to boost their visitor numbers. Simple as that.

I know, I keep seeing this tonight. “They didn’t even wait until midnight.”

Yes, they did. It just wasn’t your midnight.