I’m just trying to be a little bit more optimistic about things, I feel like we’ve had some real progression in the last decade. My workplace has tampons in the men’s toilets which would have seemed inconceivable ten years ago. Everyone I know has been accepting of my friends that transitioned, even ones that vote Tory. I guess people on the internet just really want to be pessimistic and cry about how bad everything is. I’ll stop arguing here, feel free to continue the doom and gloom.

I’m familiar, a good friend of mine is going through it at the moment. I’m not saying it’s perfect, I’m saying we don’t deserve the name “terf island” when we’re ranked 15th in the world for trans rights.

Care to elaborate on those reasons? And I don’t want to hear about JK Rowling. Every country has loud twats on twitter.

Keep fighting ð good fight!

What about your home WiFi ssid and password? I have emojis in mine and it causes all sorts of problems. Worth it.

Do you have those letters in your codebases, phlubba?

Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars. Not much changed between this and Rocket League, the name was probably the main thing holding them back.

I’ve given up on AirBnB in the last few years. When I first started, you could get great places for cheaper than hotels and it felt exciting having a house to yourself. I don’t know if the novelty has worn off or if the quality has got worse, but the last few times I’ve used it I’ve regretted it. “Check-in” is never simple. Bad directions to the place. Bad communication leading to issues trying to get the key. Stupid rules like having to put bedsheets in the wash. Reviews can’t be trusted. And it’s not even much cheaper than hotels now.

This doesn’t go for every AirBnB, I’m sure plenty are great. But a lot of times you don’t want the uncertainty.

Same. If anything, it would be in Spotify’s best interest to steer you away from broadly appealing stuff because they’re the mega artists that probably negotiated a better deal. (I’m guessing here)

Tall people are short people that are tall

Upset that “loop detected” isn’t the fat lööps cat

Straight up misleading. Mentioning AI in the headline and then sneakily switching to “the cloud” (i.e. most of the internet) when discussing figures. They say it uses a similar amount to commercial flights? Fine. Ground the flights, I’d rather have the internet a million times over.

On top of this, there’s lots of ways that they would get the data without secretly listening to microphones, which people may not be aware of in all these anecdotes. In the one above, maybe just one party member googled lab grown diamonds, or perhaps messaged a friend on Facebook messenger about their trick. Not sure if that gets analysed for ads but it’s more plausible than mics. Anyway if they’re all on the same WiFi then they’ll probably be on the same IP and could easily be shown the same ads, making all party members now ripe for a diamond ad.

There’s a well known video of a guy saying “cat food” around his phone, and then his phone shows Google ads for cat food. He concluded that it was secretly listening to him, because there was no other way for Google to get that info other than to shadily tap into his mic. He performs this experiment on a live streamed YouTube video

Snake / snake-in-the-grass has the connotations of fake loyalty, not sure if it’s specifically amongst several groups but it fits.

I use signal a lot and sometimes people’s phones will stop signal from running in the background. This can cause the behaviour you’re seeing, as their phone wont receive the messages until they open the app manually

Pff Nike ripped off Shia Labeouf

So far the only thing I’ve noticed is I can’t play Valorant, and soon League of Legends too.

Must be exhausting!

Fuck you man if you dont like my fucking music, get your own fucking cab. I’ll pull over to the side and kick your ass out.

To quote pink Floyd: There is no dark side. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.