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What is the purpose of paying for software when a company like Adobe treats you like a free software user and keeps adding things to the app that you don't want and failing to fix the things that make using it harder?
You can *buy* a television *subscribe* to streaming ... but you still need to see ads.
Even minecraft shows ads on the loading screen.
What is the purpose of jargon? What does it glorify? what does it obscure?
"conducted a lethal kinetic strike"
"killed people with a bomb"
You could disrupt the whole universe by simply making fun easy to use *user-centric* software that didn't require your "geek tax"
You want disruptive? That would be it.
What would it feel like to not feel like I'm always fighting with the damn software?
What if you made the software actually help me for once?
YouTube is continuing their assault on "hand que'd" videos. That is the practice of marking the videos you want to see and watching them on a play list.
They just pushed a new update that tries to hide the queue if you don't open it again. It also tries to replace the queue with a list they made (their algorithm) unless you keep navigating back to it.
The moment this breaks I'm gone.
I'm not gonna let ya'll pick what I watch. I don't trust you.
We may need to find an alternative for the student yearbook and newspaper club because of this nonsense.
Which makes me happy in a way FOSS til the end and all.
HOWEVER these are student run clubs, *they* choose the software because it's what college an other student groups use. Now we come in and say "no no no" not a great look.
I think it's also slowed down so gotta learn that time travel jump off too.
This has bothered me for decades.
"What is that sound in 'jump around' by House of Pain"
(I always thought it was like IDK a fire alarm for terrible whiteboys incoming)
In the US I think you can get a permit if you live in an area with a proper winter. Which is a little paranoid.
Pica. I don't know how to say this nicely but I don't like your "song." I just don't think it's very good. It's too repetitive and discordant and it has too much RAW RAR and no real ... flow?
I just don't think it's ever going to be popular so I don't know why you keep at it.
I have a tiny sliver of respect for that I suppose... you know, like one of those bits of glass you get in your foot and you know it's there but can't see it.
I sometimes wish I could keep leaf-cutters, but seeing how relentless and persistent they are ... well. I think it's rather like having a pet bear.
Any time I can get the chance to see that colony I run over there. They are like an old friend.
You notice things about them if you visit more than once... they have good days and bad ones, they sometimes move the queen but I don't know if anyone has caught this happening.
They are at war with their keepers (like all ants) they keep little compost piles to make soil to block openings and reduce light. You can always find one ant who has gotten over the mote.
I love them.
@BathysphereHat
normally, I have to walk to the museum to see the ants but if I could just come to your house that sounds so much more convenient
@GustavinoBevilacqua
I saw several big soldier humans at Grand Central Station just the other day. absolutely terrifying.
When they first brought the Atta Cephelotes colony to the American Museum of Natural History, there were lots of large soldier ants, guarding the path where the ants, carried their leaves back to their nest, but now having settled in, you see hardly any soldiers at all. I had to look in the nest near what I suspect is the Queen’s chamber to even find one!They may have stopped producing soldiers because, in a closed environment, they just aren’t necessary.
At last I've got her number! #picaTheCat
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While most interactions with the creature occur online, it is possible for one to live in your home. Will sap body heat from lap, empty bank accounts.
("Everybody else" is right here on the planet with us.)
they have this thing called the “Fermi paradox.”
They get all sad and mournful about “where is everybody else in the universe?” and it’s hilarious because it’s impossible for me to imagine any of us ever been that way: but that’s just how isolated they are: they have no idea they aren’t alone and they have no idea what a blessing that is.