Vespair @ Vespair @lemm.ee

you're probably an idiot. I know I am.

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I used to have a bagel guillotine. Sometimes it would catch and you'll have to take a second go at it, but you know what? It always made it through in the end.

Hopefully somebody who actually makes monetized Youtube videos will join the conversation to answer that one, as I'm not certain. I'm a pretty active Youtube watcher and fairly savvy on the culture, so from what I've gleaned I believe there is some control given to creators but I believe it is somewhat limited. For example if you watch the Sorted channel (a UK-based food channel) with ads on, they seem to pretty consistently happen at small scene transitions, which leads me to believe the Sorted team is doing their part to strategically place them.

They never said the guillotine wouldn't be a permanent fixture.

Honestly, Pornhub has the infrastructure to take on Youtube, if they wanted. If they just cloned the site, sans content, and called it Videohub, there would immediately be a real contender in the marketplace.

If they kept the ads to 10-15 seconds at the start of a video and didn't interrupt my videos for them, I would never use an adblock on Youtube (i'll even give them an allowance for one 10 second ad interruption for every hour in the case of super long videos). But for as long as they keep trying to squeeze every goddamn penny out of me that they can, I will fight back and do everything in my power to prevent them from being allowed even a single ad impression off me.

I'm not unreasonable, but I refuse to accept unreasonable offers.

Just like borders, generational divides are fictional constructs. In reality there is enormous overlap between generations.

Ah yes, "my opinion is infallible and I'm righteous for screaming it from the rooftops, but your opposing opinion is ignorant and worthy of dismissal!"

Red flag indeed, friend.

Subtext. It's the suggestion that these terms are so incomprehensible as to be overwhelming in the first place. The subtext is that the younger generation is exhausting, specifically in their nonsense or otherness. There's assuming good faith and then there is intentionally ignoring the forest for the trees, and I think your suggestion is more for the latter than the former, frankly.

This meme sucks and punching down on the next generation sucks even worse, so instead of focusing on all that noise here's a fun NSFW manga about Gen Alpha slang instead.

I'm approaching 40 and I was online before middle school. This might be the first generation to be wholly raised on the internet (as in the vast majority of children), but it certainly isn't the actual first.

This is my last comment here

Good. Us "SJWs" won't miss you at all.

To a degree they do. Businesses have the right to refuse service, but not if doing so appears to be targeting somebody for discriminatory reasons. Since the impetus here seems to be the kiss between two men, if they aren't asking opposite-sex couples who engage in the same to leave then this actually is not a legal request. There's some context here that is impossible to know, so frankly I'm not really keen to make a clear determination one way or the other personally, but I still wanted to point out that it's not really automatically as simple as "the business asked them to leave."

Ohio, in this context, actually means weird. I don't know the genesis of it entirely, but they a joke about Ohio being so boring that it's actually secretly full of weirdness and so now Ohio means weird.

Even a full-on gay orgy in the dead center of the restaurant is no excuse for violence.

But beyond that, people who are bothered by PDA are so fucking lame. You really want a sterile, sexless world devoid of passion and expressions of love? I think that sounds so fucking miserable

Come the fuck on people, didn't you make the same promise to yourself that I did to be better to the generation that follows you than the previous generation was to yours?

This shit is so fucking stupid. Do better and don't become a fucking boomer

This is the good take. Star Trek peaked at DS9 and there's yet to be a good reason to continue past it.

Yes Walmart is a shithole but don't begrudge the people trying to make an honest living. It's classist, it's punching down at the wage worker by calling them a clown rather than punching up at the corporation for being a shithole.

And in the 80s they felt confident what they knew was a heck of a lot more than what was known in the 40s, probably would even have argued it was much more settled science compared to the anecdote and conjecture of yore.

Personally I am of the opinion that for all our knowledge there is still vastly more we don't know than do, and that we should always try to be mindful of possible ignorance and "of-the-time-ness" of our knowledge in all things.

I believe you mean Joe from the singing cockroach movie.

Why is she removing pants in panel 2 that she isn't wearing in panel 1?