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  • sorry but I'm not paid for using Google for other people.

    Youre an adult, which means you can talk to other people without being snarky. And still, you did do exactly that in your other comment.

    I was simply pointing out the inconsistency between your comments here. Not everybody is going to browse the whole thread, especially after they've already made a comment. It helps to spread proper information and facts around as much as possible, even if it's annoying to repeat yourself.

    Why are we supposed to be so against helping others learn? What's the point in being that pessimistic that you assume they won't care just because of the idea that they proscribed to a narrative?

    Your idea that you can try to fight "bullshit" while being unwilling to have a conversation without insulting people for being lazy is why you're being blocked by me. I don't need this level of toxicity in my feed. Be a human being.

  • Okay but they just said "winter is a bitch" which is more of a subjective unquantifiable statement. My personal best assumption for that is about snow, but I don't think any form of climate is a better measure for what is and is not "a bitch"

  • I'm confused. 3 hours ago you provided valid sources to this claim but here you are 40 minutes ago not doing so.

  • YouTube doesn't even warn me

    Because they've been slowly rolling this out. It first happened over summer to a few users and steadily to more and more. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens to you before the end of the year.

  • I've been using Firefox for over a year, so thanks for the assumption boss.

  • I was already on Firefox.

    I switched to ublock origin yesterday and it worked for about 2 hours before YT somehow detected it and shut down every video. My fix for that was to disable ublock, refresh, enable ublock, refresh again

  • I mean idk I never really bothered with an ad blocker pre 2013 or so, back when you'd get an ad before the vid and the longer ones had mid rolls.

  • of course those work its just annoying seeing the main site crumble this way. I shouldn't have to use third party workarounds when the first party site can be making improvements easily

  • Yeah that part was especially frustrating. I like playing longform content on my 2nd monitor while gaming on my first monitor so I kept having to tab out to skip the ads.

  • Tru dat. Met a lot of people in my life who claimed to live in a "rural area" but in reality they lived in a suburb that was surrounded by real rural areas. A 20 minute drive just to do groceries doesn't make some place inherently rural, it just means that there's bad city planning.

  • I live about 30 mins from vancouver in the US, and winter in this region really isn't that bad. I could see it for the other cities, but in this region we have years where it doesn't even snow at all. The last "bad winter" we had was about 2 years ago, and before that maybe 5 years ago?

  • I assume it's to cut down on wasted space from "thumbs up" and "Okay" emails.

  • I have no clue where the word comes from, but my understanding is that it's a hyper-authoritarian communist. Think Stalin or Mao Zedong. The kind of person who's not afraid to start a genocide or a famine if it means the people dying of starvation are capitalists. You'll usually see them defending or denying the crimes of the people I listed earlier plus others. Pol Pot is a good example.

    I too have been called a tankie on here which is very strange considering I'm a bit less of a leftist than the majority on here.

  • Seems possible enough to me, considering what they've done with pretty much everything else

    • Half Life 2: Despite Zombie Chopper only having 6.9% of steam players actually get it, including myself, it's arguably the more famous of the Half Life 2 achievements.
    • Please, Don't Touch Anything is a puzzle game where the player is presented with an empty room and a button, and pressing it unlocks more knobs and switches and levers that they have to figure out how to press to unlock endings. When it comes to the achievement for simply pressing the button, only 96.6% of all players have gotten it. That means a shocking 3.4% looked at the button and decided to just not press it and then didn't continue playing the game.
    • The Talos Principle: About 20% of players have gotten the achievement for getting the "canon" ending of the game, but only 6.1% of players got the achievement for going up to where the canon ending takes place, changing their mind, and walking back down.
    • Myst (2021): In the 2021 remake a shocking 32% of players made it through Selenitic, but only 4.6% got the "Never Lost" achievement. This is a bit of a big leap in logic, I'll admit, but I'm willing to bet that means only 4% of players actually know how to solve the mazerunner puzzle. It's a puzzle you must solve to complete Selenitic. Without going into it too much, you control a train going through a maze of rails and at each junction you can spin to go to a set of different rails. Each cardinal direction corresponds to a series of 4 sounds you were supposed to have memorized from the previous age (level), the Mechanical age. If 2 sounds happen, then you have to go in the direction between those sounds. If you play the game in the non-randomized state then you can just look up a walkthrough of this puzzle, which is what most people did in the 90s and what most people still do because guaranteeing good sound quality for everyone is still difficult. Most new players might even play with the sound off just because they don't know about this.
  • "Prada has considerable experience with various types of composite fabrics and may actually be able to make some real technical contributions to the outer layers of the new space suit," according to Professor Jeffrey Hoffman, who flew five Nasa missions and has carried out four spacewalks.

    probably the key paragraph