I thought browser back button hijacking was something you weren’t allowed to do. Seems like most news corporations that get posted to Lemmy have to take me to ads or more stories instead of letting me go back. I guess on federated stuff you’re expected to have a slicker setup than a mostly stock android.

Foreigners being smooshed into goo and sprayed down the drain is the same as Americans watching their king have a parade.

I can’t stop thinking of the contrast between charged-up Americans willing to fight, kill, and die in a shitty battlefield for our freedoms but when our freedoms are being destroyed as the main attraction these guys are nowhere.

If I thought that way about YouTube, why not just be a sovcit about laws in general? I don’t want to cherry pick philosophy. Let’s go all in on technicalities and loopholes and definitions and wording. Life is a video game where X leads to Y because that’s the rules. YouTube is merely answering requests, and I’m merely watching a curated selection of data. They have a TOS but I never agreed to it. For I’m not a user or customer, but a Netizen, and we have rights.

The married father of two used “joebidennnn69” and several other user names to exchange 220 obscene files

accused of distributing more than 200 files of child pornography online while using the screen name “joebidennnn69,” federal prosecutors alleged

Circus shit. Dude used multiple names but the headline is Biden and they even have a picture of him. Plus this rag hijacks my back button so it’s harder to come back to Lemmy on my phone.

Also:

May allegedly kept several videos of himself on trips to Colombia engaging in sex with three women who appeared to be underage and were paid, a DHS official testified.

Underageeeddd woomeennn

But I don’t have adblockers installed and I still get told to turn my blocker off. I have no extensions and YouTube randomly stops my video to tell me I’m doing it wrong.

Edit: I guess this is the result when dealing with the kind of users who refuse to watch ads, but also can’t fuck off like decent human beings. Just millions of people who will climb your fence, pick your locks, smash your window, because they deserve to watch content, but they won’t pay or watch ads.

JK Rowling sounds like an incredibly talented author. Most people just massage things into place. Reuse tropes. But you’re saying she baked her worldview into practically every sentence?

If I see ugliness in the world, I might express it as I see it. I don’t have to think something is right for me to include it in a story. Do you think I’m special? Am I the only person capable of writing things that I don’t necessarily support? Everyone else is forced to include things they personally would vote for. If you write about slavery, that means you love slavery. Is it weird that I’m capable of being against slavery, yet it’s possible for me to include it in stories? Should I be using this power?

I didn’t realize Rowling was one of the best authors. I thought she just reused things without really thinking. I never knew it was 100% meticulous and so… thought out. I don’t think even Tolkien can be said to inject so much meaning into every single page.

Hopefully he dies early in production. How’s that for winding down?

I wonder if he’d be ok with others wishing he would die. Or is it only acceptable when he’s playing a character or working for bigots? In any case I’m sure he finds it all very exciting.

What’s the timeline going to be? Proud Boys scheduled to burn cars at 4, news and ramping up at 5, martial law before sundown?

Iran does bad things, yet you cheer their actions. Curious. - Charlie Kirk

It’s not “America 250.” It’s “America 1776 - 2025.”

Children can consistently win in Mario Kart. Adults shouldn’t have trouble seeing how the RNG works and acting accordingly.

They’re all just accessories conservatives wear in the moment. Even Trump, who they boo when he says vaccines are good.

Depending on the field I feel like it’s not exactly rare to find typos in white papers. Maybe it’s just from reading compsci stuff.

Moderators were previously told to remove videos if one-quarter or more of the content violated YouTube policies. Now, that limit has been increased to half.

This seems like alien speak to me. They announce that shit, someone read it, and then repeated it in an article. But what does it mean?

Can you have 6 contents and make 2 really crazy? Can you tell people to commit violence for 5 minutes and then review a game for 6 minutes? Is there a dude with tvtropes open going through and marking the contents of content?

I’ve been deliberately dehumanizing Trumpers for long enough that these articles make no sense to me at first. Who cares if a simple creature had an automatic response we’ve all known was common? “Extra extra! Man dangles carrot, horse tries to get it!” It’s a quaint, goofy society that gets excited over that.

I guess trump supporters superficially resemble human beings but I still don’t think it’s newsworthy for them to repeat the sounds we make. Just say floopergoop dinglewhams are progressive! and now the parrots say they hate the thing you just made up. How long until people get bored of this?

We should have Trump dragged through the streets by a Tesla.

“Hey Canada we’re a bunch of pussies that want to run away because fascism is taking over. How’d you like to team up with us while you also deal with fascism?”

Why wouldn’t Canada just take these states for themselves and deport all the cowardly Americans? You guys aren’t going to fight, you’ll just run away to yet another country.

I don’t care if it’s deliberate or not but there does seem to be some pressure release valves in society preventing meaningful action. I guess that’s why alt right pipelines work. It’s about capturing pent up energy, stoking it, and siccing it on fascists.

Youtube is run like shit. I get frequently told to turn off my adblocker… when I don’t even have extensions installed. It’s already annoying as fuck dealing with ads but it’s some kafka-lite bullshit to be told you’re not watching them.