Creator-owned platforms are the answer. I pay 2.50 USD/month for Nebula, and I have a less invasive experience, no ads, and the creators are paid better.

I also pay ~5/mo for Dropout, which is entirely owned by the people who run it.

In both cases, I feel as though I’m getting more value out of my time spent watching compared to the average YouTube video. Higher quality, less fluff, less algorithm bait.

Gators as a species have existed for hundreds of millions of years, predating even some of the stars in the sky. They should be alright.

I think we are going to completely abstract from traditional ethics, entertainment, and communication, aside from a few niche communities akin to a 21st century Amish.

“I’ll take that as a motherfucking green light, superstar” is such a killer line

You’d effectively be capable of being in two places at once.

Steam UI genuinely fucks, and if you’re suggesting it should be homogenized into the bland, emotionless material design full of dark patterns that every other web experience has turned into… then you, sir, can go to hell

I’d absolutely be down for a decentralized club penguin

I believe that Ronald may be made of asbestos

This comes across as incredibly emotionally immature.

Shit, that was good. Maybe making the switch will help reduce the amount of ambient doom I feel nowadays.

That looks quite hot

The black latex in the sun, that is. Probably heats up very quickly

I think it may be Thanos

I used this trick a few years back during a cold snap when my furnace wasnt working. It did genuinely seem to increase the temp of my room by around ~10 Fahrenheit over an hour or so.

my understanding was capturing the hot air for a moment allowed more heat to radiate (and the pot did genuinely get to around 150 degrees according to laser thermometer) instead of the hot air rising in a narrow stream and losing its heat into the cold ceiling.

Didn’t have a fancy setup, just a spare pot balanced on three mugs over some tea candles.

I do genuinely believe that the majority of death threats and hateful remarks made on the internet come from teens who haven’t fully developed their sense of empathy yet

You probably shouldn’t be eating them then

WE CAN SHOW THEM NUDE CUZ THEY AINT GOT NO SOULS

Playing Rimworld can satisfy all of these

I reccomend this series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYxuJ9ujAYo

High kicks, high kicks

I can hardly remember the days before I became a man of tungsten.