Dark patterns will eventually force advertisements into anything that reliably catches your attention.

I stopped paying attention to notification icons ages ago, and I haven’t missed any important notifications.

Billionaires who own the means of production trying to own the means of communication as well.

When they can’t, they’ll own the government, and outlaw it.

It’s like poetry.

You own what is on your machine, that you save locally.

Some companies believe they control the internet, but they do not. They control what is on the computers they own, that they save locally. Sometimes that is information that users have shared. That is their choice.

Steam, Spotify, Discord. Whoops, all Chromium.

Selective quoting is basically lying.

The first, dubbed IS-29e, failed due to a propulsion system fuel leak. Intelsat declared the satellite a total loss in April 2019, later attributing it to either a micrometeoroid strike or solar weather activity.

With the context of the quote, I"m curious what the pattern you’ve identified is.

You just won the thread.

I’m sad they’re not videos, but what a treasure trove.

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Television shows are 22-24 minutes, because cable TV should show 6-8 minutes of ads every half hour. 30 second ads in blocks of 3 or 4, multiple times per show.

15 seonds ads are almost too short for a trip to the kitchen. I’m not saying they’re good, but if you want to compare to cable TV, you need to remember the dark times.

Do not look away from screen while ad is playing, or playback will be paused for 5 minutes for first offense.

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As a Canadian who lives in Alberta, this pains me.

I despise our provincial government. I vote in every election. I reach out to my electors who I disagree with. And it doesn’t matter because a bunch of old “got mine” boomers rich on oil money, keep voting in their shitty friends who are looting the public in plain view.

Why don’t I move? Because the whole fucking world seems to be going this way, and the housing market is insane.

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I signed up for the first one I saw, and subscribed across instances without ever considering that people might care where you came from.

People are going to judge. I try to not to be like people.

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Grilled cheese sandwich. It’s as lazy or as fancy as you’re feeling.

Super lazy? Grease bread with cheese slice. Fry flip eat.

Feeling less lazy as you start? Cut a hole in one of the pieces of bread and fry an egg in it while you toast the other side, and upgrade the cheese. Just be careful. When you start eyeing meats and mustards to pair, you’re in danger of making yourself a pretty epic sandwich.

A 200+ year old document which was designed and written deliberately to ensure that no one amassed too much power, and is now complicating individuals amassing too much power.

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A Starship Troopers game from 1990s Blizzard Entertainment.

A red dead redemption game from From Software