https://xkcd.com/927/

I was excited, until I saw tickets were about $250 each.

The most popular streamers aren’t popular because they are good at games, it’s because they are entertaining. The game might be used to draw people in, but it’s not really about the game itself.

I would say watching sports is about the game. No one is watching NFL because Madden was casting it (I know he’s gone, but I don’t know any famous sports casters/commentators).

Public Service Broadcasting - Race To Space.

Go! (From the album)

The whole album is just them playing music to sound bytes from the space race era.

For Android, in the notification shade, you can hit the power button and there should be an option called “Lockdown” which prevents biometrics from unlocking your phone, just like when it first boots.

There’s also app pinning (has to be enabled in settings) where you can lock an app in the task manager and clicking the bubble at the top and select “Pin”. You can’t swap apps or go back to the home screen without password/biometrics.

If the upvotes are easy, then it’s still relevant. Once the upvotes becomes hard, the majority of people are done.

Just because you get tired of a trend first doesn’t mean the community as a whole is.

That’s how he won the first time. We don’t decide on president by popular vote

The government right now encourages behavior it wants right now with tax breaks. They want you to have kids, child credit. They want you to open a factory, tax break on top of depreciation expenses.

Sunrise from the Final Fantasy 14 soundtrack.

YouTube premium

I don’t use an adblocker. 90% of the sites I visit don’t abuse ads. When I was younger I used to go to sketchy sites to watch content for free, but now I’m in a position where I can pay for the content so I do. The last time I pirated something was an anime because no streaming service offered it, I had to buy blu rays.

Also, I like targeted ads. Most of the time you can ignore them, but every once in a while they show you something interesting that you do actually want. I’ve picked up a few board games that way. I didn’t buy it through the ad, but it did cause me to start researching it.

Another thing to consider is just because someone says something that is not true based on reality, doesn’t mean they lied. People’s memories are terrible and easily manipulated.

If they weren’t ambiguous, then you wouldn’t see them getting popular. The difference of opinion drives engagement which means it’s more likely to show in your feed because that’s how most social media algorithms work.

Things that everyone agrees on don’t get engagement, so they don’t bubble up to the top.

Pineapple and pepperoni is better, because pepperoni tastes better than ham

I don’t think Vader is idolized because of his morals, it’s because his character is cool.

Some balance does exist that not even the right fight for. Violent felons, sexual felons, and sometimes domestic abusers lose their right to bear arms even after they’ve done time served.

It’s also an extra penalty to be armed while drunk (maybe it’s just DUI?) or while trafficking drugs.

My favorite bit of irony is how spez was throwing shade at third party apps for having the audacity to “profit” off reddits’s work for free, when that is reddits’s entire business model.