Because I am watching maybe 70-80% english content I decided the lesser evil is to just set the language to english instead.

Google has always made it extremely clear that they don’t believe it’s possible for the human brain to know more than one language, and that anyone who claims to know more than one is a liar and a witch and has no place in their platforms.

They’re more or less making the same amount of money from half the amount of reported viewers.

This would pretty much confirm that they’ve stopped counting viewers who use adblockers.

I live in a city, on a fourth floor, tragically, and I wouldn’t want my kitten to fall and / or get flattened by a car.

Plus, I work most of the day, and cats do need attention, and space. It’d be cruel to leave the poor critter alone in a small flat all that time.

And anyway the only¹ birds we’ve got around here are pigeons, which are almost certainly toxic and, at this point, mostly composed of microplastics, and seagulls², which ditto and would probably try to eat the cat.

1.— We used to have massive flocks of sparrows, too, and ducks in one of the rivers, but the sparrows are mostly gone due to climate change and insect collapse, and I’m fairly certain the seagulls ate the ducks (or at least enough ducklings for the flock to go extinct).

2.— We’re 34km from the coast. I have no idea where the seagulls came from. Horrible screeching parasites. Probably came up the river, eating the ducks on their way. River used to be full of carps… probably are those, too…

Tiny protein dismantles the toxic clumps behind Alzheimer’s

Yeah, so does fluoroantimonic acid.

I won’t stop eating meat, eggs, or dairy, but if we can take the whole killing and torturing animals out of the process, I’m all for it.

Once we’ve got affordable synthetic equivalents (and I mean equivalents; synthetic milk you can make proper cheese with, cold meats, steak, ribs, eggs, anything you can make with an animal), we should outright ban using animals for food.

(Except for birds, of course. Fuck birds. Should’ve gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of the dinosaurs, the bastards.)

Guaranteed to keep your water cool.

Yeah, this is the one I remember!

One rich asshole called Larry Ellison…?

It’s the only viable option given how much we’ve fucked the planet up.

Stopping (not reducing) emissions won’t stop already ongoing feedback loops, it’ll just prevent going full Venus.

If human civilization simply ceased to exist it’d still take millions of years for temperatures to go back to pre-human levels.

Sequestering enough carbon or increasing albedo don’t seem like feasible options.

We need to put a shade between Earth and the Sun, it’s the only option that seems possible before we collapse, and it would achieve immediate results (of course it’d also give companies an excuse to keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere, since the problem would be “solved”, so we’d be back on track for Venus style runaway greenhouse effect in one or two decades).

We’re 100% fucked.

If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modifies the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…

This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…

The only advantage of tape was, at the time, it’s smaller size and portability

And not being read-only.

Also, you could spool them with a pencil.

There are no paragraphs, which makes it too much effort to read.

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice

… but often they come hand in hand.

Yes, but made in a factory instead of a cow.

This, but unironically.

There’s plenty of objects out there made of CHONPS.

If we don’t kill ourselves first, at some point we’ll eat the Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud.

SCSI ain’t weird!

Good flash memory might last a decade, maybe a bit more.

Average flash memory probably won’t.

The standard (and tested for decades) answer is tape.

M-Disc might also be an alternative.

It already has.

They’ve drunk their own coolaid. They actually believe their own bullshit. They’ve offloaded what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs. They have them manage their schedules, summarise their emails, write their emails and speeches, and make every single decision for them.

They’re brain-dead computer operated zombies.

The problem is that they keep getting paid absurd amounts of money for being completely useless (and that they’ve always been so useless that no one can tell the difference).

I can’t help but picture the business card scene from American Psycho, but they’re comparing the “AI” assistants they use instead of their cards.

Looking up “displeased white cat wearing cowboy hat” on duckduckgo (and, by extension, I assume also bing) produces pages and pages of slop and no useable results, but google images still produced some real pictures.

It seems that the concept is somewhat common amongst stock image shops (though specifically white cats are rarer); for instance:

Shutterstock

Vecteezy

I’ve also found several sites (which might be scams) supposedly selling cat hats using these images, despite the cat clearly not looking very pleased with the product in question: