WhipTheLlama

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (39 children)

I hate ads as much as anyone and have been blocking them for almost as long as ad blockers have existed. I still acknowledge the fact that 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 do you think Youtube is supposed to survive without ads or subscriptions? When they puts ads on their site, the unsaid agreement is that you exchange your ad views for their service.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can envision a world where the search bar is an AI prompt. What a time to be alive that will be!

I wonder if we can also browse other peoples' prompts. That would be cool.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.

Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country's Thanksgiving is about that. Canada's Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

IIRC, he fought the Russians to protect Ukraine from their invasion. He had no other allegiance to Germany or Nazis. It was a "the enemy of my enemy is my ally" situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm sure google will never pull the same stunt as Amazon. They're the good guys!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bell TV in Canada doesn't support Samsung TVs because Bell is stupid. The only option is to use an external device. It's a good thing I don't care about their TV app. I only have access because it comes free with fibre internet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I empathize with your story, but I'm not sure why it became about anti-women doctors. Men constantly have our complaints misdiagnosed.

The problem is that most GPs aren't very good. People who do the best in medical school often choose to become surgeons or specialists, not GPs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Good cops are usually punished for calling out bad cops. The system is broken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are also pedestrian safety laws. I'm not convinced that the Cybertruck is less safe than any other similar-sized pickup truck. If anything, the nose is a bit lower, so it'd let a pedestrian fall on the hood more than if they were hit by another truck.

Either way, the stainless steel isn't going to be a factor, and the pickup market is flooded with vehicles that are less safe for pedestrians than lower cars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are people so convinced that the Cybertruck won't be safe? Of all the bad things we can say about Tesla, it's a fact that they're quite safe vehicles. I see no reason why the company would suddenly build a vehicle that is so unsafe it cannot be sold in Europe. Some comments in this thread say it doesn't have any crumple zones. How strong do you think 3mm stainless steel is? The strength of every vehicle comes from its frame, not from its body panels. Same thing with the Cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Including that she was an ogre, too. She would have expected Lord Farquaad to kill her once he found out.

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