DROPOUT MENTIONED

It’s Microsoft, they probably want you to host a webinar so they can use you to train AI to do it

Over time I’ve curated the list of creators I watch, so my recommendations are pretty good at feeding me what I like, though I do usually have to scroll through a lot of junk. And when the recommendations aren’t doing it, I’ll just manually go to a channel I like and find something and the algorithm will quickly adjust.

Patreon takes a cut of your money and gives the rest to the creator. Youtube does the same thing with Premium, plus creators receive a higher rpm from Premium viewers than they do from ads. And people left Reddit because they stopped supporting 3rd party apps. Youtube never supported 3rd party apps, plus there’s no suitable alternative to leave Youtube for.

Also, I’m not completely fine with Youtube Premium, but the pros outweigh the cons enough for me to justify paying for it.

Do I hate giving money to Google? Yes. Do I watch 6+ hours of Youtube a day? Also yes. I almost always have something playing in the background throughout my day, so it’s the one service I’m ok paying for and I don’t have to worry about it breaking like I would with other frontends.

The recent Disney lawsuit reminded me of this. In order to get those deals, McDonald’s makes you use their app, and part of signing up for the app is agreeing to their ToS which has an arbitration clause

Tasker is the reason Android is so much better than iOS

I had a neighbor come to my door wanting to read some bible verses. I was initially combative because I’m trans and have a pride flag in my window and was ready to be preached to about how I’m a sinner. I’m not religious but we actually had a really nice conversation about exactly this. I told them that I don’t believe in Jesus but do believe in the message of the bible, being a loving and caring person to everybody, and how conservatives have completely twisted the meaning to attack people like me. They read me a couple verses supporting that and how conservatives go against everything the bible says. It really gave me hope and what I was expecting to ruin my day actually made it instead.

Rectum? Barely knew 'em

Arcade racing: Burnout Paradise

Sim racing: Assetto Corsa

• We’re fucked
• We’ve always been fucked
• Everyone’s always been fucked
• Everyone is close to being really fucked

That’s just not true. It’s transphobic to make it a big issue. Normally when you don’t want to sleep with someone, you don’t go out of your way to tell them and cry about it. You just… don’t sleep with them.

People underestimate just how massive California is. There are a lot of people across a large span of land that require electricity. I imagine the map would look very different if it was scaled by population.

I’m not sure how it works in Europe, but power grids being privatized is a big issue in USA. It’s essentially a monopoly where one company owns and operates the grids in one or a few states. There’s no incentive to maintain the grid because there’s no competition and they receive government funding whenever a crisis like this occurs. It’s cheaper to just eat the fines than it is to buy electricity from neighboring states.

Words on picture != meme

So many widespread popular memes are screenshots of tweets. That’s no different than a comment.

As much as you wish (and I do too), it’s impossible to avoid politics, especially when something significant happens. It’s heavily entwined in every single person’s existence.

Not sure how that applies to this situation. Just because guns are allowed doesn’t mean they’re allowed to be aimed at people, let alone political figureheads.

While I agree that can absolutely explain Trump’s behavior, it’s the Secret Service’s job NOT to short circuit in a panic situation. They’re trained to specifically handle moments exactly like this.

Only because they haven’t figured out a way to do that yet

Defacing art is a historical form of protest. The Suffragettes vandalized multiple paintings which are now memorialized for it.

https://womensarttours.com/slashing-venus-suffragettes-and-vandalism/