kalkulat @ kalkulat @lemmy.world

Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

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Then they'll learn that you have really good taste.

While YT is playing its games, I've found a half-dozen other ways to get at the videos. Very educational. I'm thinking they are learning a whole bunch about what people think of their way-too-aggressive approach ... and how people usually respond to that behavior.

Disguise it as a sausage grinter?

Good point. Having a *really * good stash isn't a bad idea. BUT then there's the rubber hoses. To avoid the looters, then, means moving away from them ... and not leaving tracks to the stash.

I know a couple of things about making log cabins. For someone who's got food and my back.

I've noticed that when times get rough, people -tend- to group together and help one another, with less bitching about little shit - because life's on the line. Yeah, at those times they need to hang together to avoid cooperating with those chaotic forces ... having zero tolerance for anyone trying to take advantage.

I know a place I could last for months, depending on what time of year the power's lost, but it's a long ways from here. And then, only if bullets for hunting were still available (they'll get scarce fast, faster than toilet paper when COVID came around). Once the bullets are gone, I've either learned to trap or become a vegetarian.

In my fairly long time on this planet, my experience of 'human traits' has been much more positive than yours. As for leaders, yes, many are selfish. Luckily they and their disease can be avoided, and many people have grown past being infected by it.

Their kind of 'success' is reflected in their smallness and misery. Be careful ...The old 'As you reap...' adage is actually a fact.

STD's love this approach.

Here's the deal; Give us physical proof that you're an alien, and you're in the club!

fair prices Who gets to define what 'fair' is? Someone who'll decide every year that 'fair' is 50% more than last year. Ask me how much I'll pay, accept that number, and guarantee it for 5 years. OR go away and leave me alone.

ads are the primary revenue source for a lot of things on the Internet, and I selectively enable them for content I want to pay for.

How many years have we heard the BS about how they're gathering all this info so they can do 'targeted advertising'? HAH. 1. Ads suck. 2. Dear advertisers: you are being conned: it doesn't work. Do you REALLY think anyone is actually WATCHING those advertisements? WHY?

I enjoyed watching favorite -old- movies not chopped-up to insert 2 or 3 of 5 minutes of commercials. I quit cable-TV and got my views where I could.

There was a time when people were asked to choose between TV adverts and Pay-TV with no adverts. Those who went for Pay-TV got a few years of respite. Then, as always happens, they got screwed over. Don't believe that line for a second. They'll just bide their time, and next thing you know, you'll be watching ads-a-plenty again.

Cable TV chopped one of my favorite movies up into about 24 parts once so it could shove commercials in between those parts. I don't do ads anymore, and will auto-kill them or auto-quit whatever 'service' or site tries.

Funny thing happened to Cable-TV didn't it?

Good question. Many good answers. Put them aside and you still got a string made of multiple fibers that rub against each other. I'd guess that after a few hundred yards (depending on the string), the energy of your pull would be turned into heat by internal friction alone.

I'm never surprised at the middle east's violent co-existence. They've been at it for ten thousand years. They wouldn't know what to do without it. Hatfields and McCoys? Ireland and England? Wannabes.

Work on my forever computer project (lots of reading & research). Podcasts, keeping up with YTube channels, audiobooks. Mourn all the things I don't find time for because of -all the damned media!-

Not complaint but suggestion: When I get to the bottom of a column of msgs and click the NEXT button ... page should scroll to the top!