What, so I can be underpaid to do the most stressful and undersupported job ever, with the chance that the next political controversy may force me to go weeks or months without pay, and then feel the guilt of killing several hundred people if I screw up?

I used to pay less than the single plan for a family plan, split between 5 people. Back when ad-free YouTube was an afterthought and my primary reason for using it was Google Play Music’s unlimited music storage and streaming.

The amount they just increased the cost of YouTube is about how much I’d be willing to pay total for no ads. Until then, they’re competing against zero ads (but no casting) for free.

Got it, so one may only discuss serious topics man(kind) to man(kind).

It still makes perfect sense, imo. I wouldn’t even call it incorrect on a technical level. The contrast between “man” as singular and “mankind” as collective should provide all of the context needed.

If I describe a scene of a story as “man goes to work,” no one assumes I’m talking about the collective of humanity.

Now Ricky wasn’t the only shit-head at that table

That might be putting it mildly

books cannot contain unskippable ads

Ready Player One might disagree

Yeah I haven’t been happy since the 90’s either.

Right, but we look at examples like Chromium and we can see where there is still so much potential for things to go sideways. GabeN and his yacht could sink to the bottom of the sea and his estate sells control of Valve to someone less benevolent.

A commercial entity that has enough control over a project pushes the direction of that project in their favor. And sure you can fork a FOSS project at any time, but once the commercialized version has enough saturation, user inertia and lack of experienced developers to take that initiative often prevents alternatives from achieving success.

Just wish it was coming from a non-commercial entity. Puts a sour note on the status of Linux gaming that a for-profit entity is the only one out there making meaningful progress.

It’ll dry out the beef something bad, though.

We talking in terms of percentage used or number of varieties?

Pastafarianism probably has the highest ratio of silly hat wearers per adherent, but only a few varieties to my knowledge (colanders and pirate hats/bandanas).

I’m unfamiliar with that subreddit and it appears that it no longer exists. What’s the story?

I guess it depends on what OP means, though. Different substances can still yield identical or comparable physiological outcomes to cause physical/chemical addiction (as in, you experience withdrawal when not using).

Yep, never forget the way ICE/DHS tried to spin the narratives around Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Just the light contrast. Stars are not as bright as the light from the sun reflecting off the Earth and the Moon. If they adjusted the exposure enough to see the stars, the Earth and Moon would look blindingly bright in comparison.

It truly needs to be very dark for stars to be easily visible, to the extent that the mere lights from a nearby city shining through the atmosphere are enough to render them invisible on a clear night.

It’s just water water, really. Water is already an acid.

Basically. How to be the worst contractor and still get paid for it.

I forgot what the game was called until I looked it up again just now, and so this had me thinking that Low-Budget Repairs had finally released

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3167920/LowBudget_Repairs/

In a general sense, absolutely, but there are still a good number of pro-AI communities around here that typically keep to their own bubbles. Anyone browsing by All will inevitably see them come up here and there.

I also see AI-gen content make it to the top of larger, more general communities like Lemmy Shitpost every now and then. Usually when it’s harder to tell that it was generated by AI. When it gets called out, you’ll typically see more upvotes than downvotes, but there will inevitably be some AI sympathist or two in the replies who won’t hesitate to go off about how it’s not a big deal/it’s just a meme/there’s nothing inherently wrong with AI/etc.