It already is, dumbass.

Note: It's a right in the sense of "it should be available to buy", but not "you can get it for free"-kind-of-right.

The human race, I presume. Even though humanity isn't a race. English is so fucked up.

I've seen the list on the party site. There were 3 .edu out of 219 emails total. 152 gmail, 17 hotmail/outlook, 18 protonmail, 2 4chan, and the rest were custom.

No .gov.

This describes Christianity (to an extent). When I turned atheist (because I couldn't believe in God/Jesus anymore, not because I didn't want to) there is this very Church-shaped hole in your proverbial soul that needs time to close. It's a very sobering, yet lonely, way to live life, but due to the internet you don't find yourself lonely for too long, but I imagine it used to be a pretty terrifying way to live life pre-internet.

I am lucky my Christian family still loves me, and I know they only proselytize to me (every now and then) because they care.

She ignored community feedback (I want customized channels back!) and turned YouTube into the dopamine riddled mess it is today.

Still, fuck cancer. My condoleances to her survivors.

I asked ChatGPT to convert the text to common words:

"Academic writing is often hard to understand because it uses complicated words specific to a particular field, making it easier for experts to communicate with each other but harder for outsiders to follow. This keeps certain knowledge limited to a small group of people and maintains a cycle where only the educated or 'in' crowd can fully engage, while others are left out."

I was able to do it for a restaurant once, where I was the first one to do so. I got 1.6+ million views on one image of the (then empty) restaurant. I'm pretty sure that's the peak of my online presence. It's all downhill from there.

I don't believe you - I believe he's looking at his phone. Show me the video.

One of a few movies that could've used a "Fire!" was the intro of Robin Hood: Men in Tights (fire arrows, get it?), AND THEY DON'T EVEN DO IT!

a free forum

"Oh great, I'll have to create another fucking account" - me, already having some 300 accounts in my key-vault...

In case you want to see some (not all) faces:

http://12ft.io/...

edit: direct link: https://12ft.io/...

Topologically speaking, the frog is a donut.

It was my replacement of Skype, which was leaning hard into its enshittification around that time.

I've blocked any YouTube video recommendations (after a video is done, the sidebar, etc), and switched to RSS (RSS Guard is my go-to, after testing about 6 RSS readers). I used Enhancer for YouTube™ to block the bullshit.

Now, I only have 319 videos left to view, in order, from all the channels that I follow. It is now me that has a tight grip on what I watch, and not YT. No more doomscrolling on YT Shorts! No more watching the newest thing (old videos are still solid, but won't be likely recommended)! Use Youtube-shorts block to turn any short into a normal video, in case someone sends you a shorts link.

I can now have a sense of being done watching videos, instead of YT feeding me unending garbage.

RSS feed locations for YT are hidden:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id

The channel id you can find on a channel, under ...more near the top, then Share Channel -> Get Channel ID.

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

Remember, kids, "less" is for uncountable things, like liquids, whereas "fewer" is for countable things (like apples).

It's one of many weird rules that English, as a language, has.

If a duct that transfers water is an Aquaduct, then a duct that transfers nature is an Ecoduct

I dont know... This Linux thing is pretty great, IMO.

I get their point, but it feels like it's more about tech being abused by large corporations, trying to squeeze another cent out of you.

Tradition is innovation that survived long enough to stop being questioned.

or

Tradition is a solution that forgot the problem it solved.

Yours feel unnecessarily disrespectful.

That's the point of government: the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force.

That's from "Politics as a Vocation" by Max Weber. It's also why the population needs to beat back if that violence isn't legitimate (i.e. it's abusing the population in the first place).

Programming.dev represent! o7