Same. I originally got it for YT music. I don't listen to as much music as I used to without a commute anymore, but my wife and I watch a ton of YouTube. And it's mildly more difficult to block ads on the Roku too. I know pi holes exist, but my wife plays those freemium games that give you currency for watching ads and blocking all ads will break shit for her and then I have to fix it. Someone will tell me there's an easy solve I'm sure, but honestly the subscription is just way easier and I really don't mind paying. $16/mo for a family plan is 100% worth it to just not deal with all of that.
Last time I checked: tab groups. Yes there are extensions for it, but all the ones I tried were either really over complicated or buggy. Chrome tab groups are pretty simple and seamless to use.
But I'm going to have to figure something out because I'd rather lose tab groups than ad blocking, so I'll have to switch to something.
Are like Uber drivers and stuff able to lie about tips? Not sure how that works when everything is through the app and digital. Would've thought that they'd have exact documentation on how much you were tipped for the most part.
WoW back when I had friends that played and a decent guild
Playing pretty much every co op game with my best friend that we could find.
Trying to beat the last level of Halo at 3am while having way too many energy drinks and one of us always managing to fuck something up while driving the warthog
Playing Crota's End raid in Destiny 1 blind with my friends when it came out and trying to get through the maze with the lamps
That summer me and my girlfriend were both unemployed and we played hours and hours of Dungeon Defenders
Everyone either has kids now or travels too much or just isn't interested in playing anymore. It's sad those days are probably forever over for me now. Maybe once we're all in nursing homes there will be a resurgence in lan parties, instead of bingo for our generation.
You would have the freedom to abstain on every vote, but you have to submit the paperwork. I wouldn't force someone to actually vote for a person if they didn't want to, but like taxes or jury duty, they have to show proof that they completed the task. If that ballot is effectively blank, well that's their choice. But I feel that getting to enjoy those same liberties you speak of requires you to at least minimally engage in the process.
Personally I'd rather have someone randomly fill in bubbles than not vote. As they're randomly filling stuff in, maybe they see a name they recognize and they actually cast a real vote. That's a win.
This is basically all modern elections. Very few flip sides, it's mostly about which side actually gets enough people to get out to vote.
Which is why I want mandatory voting. The country would be a lot better represented if everyone was forced to cast a ballot. Sure tons of people would vote without any real care, but they'd still tend to vote roughly for anyone they knew they liked. The college kid that always talks politics online but can't be bothered to vote will now actually cast a ballot and be heard.
But this would almost definitely finish off the current Republican party so it's doubtful it'll ever happen.
Pretty sure since it's a layoff they'll argue it wasn't specifically targeted as a form of discrimination. America is full of things that feel like they should be illegal, but aren't.
Like how my state has absolutely zero laws enforcing access to bathroom or food breaks at work. Totally baffling.
Rather than discouraging people not to invest, I think the larger concern is the further entrenchment of a three class system.
You'll have your capitalists, those that own the assets and robots and land. Then you'll have some amount of humanity lucky enough to get one of the jobs not automated. Finally you'll have those existing purely on UBI.
The economy will shift towards catering almost exclusively to the first two groups and anyone on UBI will be seen as a useless parasite. There won't be any efforts to price goods and services for this group beyond the bare minimum because they have very little buying power and zero earning power.
I think we've seen time and time again that the rich are more than happy owning a small pie rather than putting in the work to build something bigger, even if that would result in larger profits long term. It's going to be easier to just shrink the economy to those that still have jobs than it will be to make everyone have more equitable buying power.
UBI will probably happen and probably get paid, because it will help prevent revolts and unrest, but that is a cost center to the rich. You minimize cost centers as much as possible. It's a subscription they pay to the masses to reduce risk and that's it.
UBI will probably come, but much like AI, we're probably not going to be happy with what and how it's used. It won't be to enable an artist to pursue their passion, it'll be just enough to keep you quiet and docile, no more.
Lemmy seems to have inherited all the snark of Reddit, with very little of the 'random expert reads post and chimes in with cool anecdote' that Reddit used to have. I miss that.
McDonald's has a pretty shitty loyalty program anyway. They have a very limited selection of stuff you can even spend the points on and you can't both use points and a daily deal at the same time.
I mean exactly? Why are Democrats courting the people flirting with fascists instead of at least the broad, varied base of their own group. The could cater to the conservative Democrats and still come out ahead.
Ok so 3% of the 42% of independent voters are truly undecided. Why spend the effort on them, vs actually motivating the roughly 50% of your base + independents who are actually Democrats that just don't show up.
It feels like by doggedly pursuing this tiny fraction of 3% undecided voters, they disillusion a much higher percentage of their own already locked in supporters from actually showing up. If they spent their efforts on targeting supporters that just don't vote, could they get 5% more votes? 10? 15?
Time and time again it feels that the side that wins isn't the one that flipped a vote, but rather the side that was more excited and engaged. Someone the Republicans seem to have figured out and work heavily towards.
People have been saying 'anyone but these two fossils' for awhile now I guess now we'll get to see if they really meant it or if they just wanted to whine.
This feels kind of overblown. It wasn't an apocalypse scenario where people needed to stock up on food and stuff. Honestly if the Internet hadn't filled up with memes I probably wouldn't have known about the outage. My company was fine. Everyone in my family's company's were fine. All the places I shopped today were fine. A few of our vendors were mildly affected. It certainly seems widespread, but not nearly to the point of validating a prepper lifestyle.
Which is why I don't understand why the Democrats seem to so heavily target these mythical independents. Feels like the Republicans have completely stopped catering to anyone other than their base, meanwhile Democrats seem to ignore their base or compromise their own values for voters that don't even exist. To me it's the strongest argument for the whole theory of controlled opposition, even if I don't really believe in that.
I'm absolutely going to hear some Karen later repeat this fact as a reason to protest against 'government crackdowns on salt' or something, aren't I?