stalfoss

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

“It never happened to me personally so it must not be real” — this is the mindset that conservatives follow that leads to so much cruelty in the world

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Georgia the county or Georgia the country?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (14 children)

That’s like saying if you support gay rights protestors, you have to also support nazi protestors, or you’re being hypocritical. You’re looking at things on the wrong axis.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The streamers on twitch control how many ads you see. If it’s a huge amount, they opted into that. They get a small cut of the ad revenue

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I think even more horrifying is that more people voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Notice the footnote on every TSA webpage that their officers can always change the rules on the spot if they feel like it. So it’s always a gamble.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The big artists don’t fight this because they make more money under the status quo, and Ticketmaster takes all the heat and they can play victim while raking in the cash.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I like the overloaded power strip balanced on top of the heater, really ties the whole disaster together

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I hate the YouTube clickbait style thumbnails, I’m not watching the video out of principle

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Random Nancy comic from 1963: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FPIAAOSwq5ZkIIrb/s-l1200.webp

Im not sure I see a real difference between them?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

One of the main methods of video delivery is actually by sending a series of 2 second video clips over http. So it would not really take much processing power to insert ads in the middle, it’s not like they are having to encode video or anything.

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