Ignorance… it’s an apt word here…

This was me with beer. Gave it up over 15 years ago, as what was making me feel shitty about it was putting out the recycling bin filled with beer bottles and cans… and realizing just how much money I was spending on something that was doing nothing good for me. Stopped drinking in 2009 and don’t miss it a bit. Saving a lot more money as well…

Just got to have a wand like Bellatrix Lestrange’s then.

No politeness there…

The extremely gullible ARE the joke.

No one technically DID say anything, because it was a film set prop.

I’d have a field day with anyone losing their shit over this and thinking it was a real thing, by showing them the film it came from…

Damn… I wish I didn’t remember my dreams. Usually they involve me trying to clean a house where the rooms constantly change. That, and my car always seems to be turned on it’s roof.

God only knows wht I keep coming back to that weirdness.

Fry that fucker up till it’s nice and golden, add some HP curry sauce and crack open a beer. Almost like Leberkäse…

Heaven. Will take all anxiety away.

…polite the environment…

Do they give it a sincere “Good day to you!”?

Jazz 2.0 just dropped

LOL!

That or Progressive Acid Folk.

Dad joke for coders? Ooooo… you!

A 56 y/o half-brother that I would do almost anything for and a step-sister that… well… whatever.

This is it exactly.

And I kind of like that there are no total upvote/downvote stats tied to our accounts.

Prevents karma farming so it disinclines the behavior to rage-bait or post controversial items for attention.

(Remember u/unidan? Guy karma farmed hugely and eventually got rumbled creating some brouhaha over the difference between crows and jackdaws. Absolute stupidity that got the better of him…)

The content is more the focus here…

The weird thing is apparently, I wasn’t allowed to delete my account last night. I thought I did, but I went back not too long ago and on a lark, signed in again. Account’s empty of all my unarchived posts - since I deleted it all, but I still have access. Think I’m going to see if the PM’s work and just start hoovering interesting articles and items from there. WTF, it’s not like I didn’t bring content to the site… Gonna take the best of it back and bring it here. Fuck it.

I think it’s James Corden… used to do a show where he’d drive people around in a car and sing? Carpool Karaoke?

Something like that. I wonder who he pissed off…

I was a 14 years long redditor that was more into the arts and graphics and from the time of the IPO, my feed pivoted to much more rage-bait content and subs appearing on my homepage that were completely unknown to me. Definitely some site-wide fuckery going on, that’s changed the nature of that beast. Moreso now since they have corporate investors and within the last week or so, a whole bunch of bad reports about the data not being used for AI training as much as they hyped it up. Methinks they’re pivoting to the right in order to appease their investors…

AI, maybe, but upheld by a person upon appeal.

I honestly think those appeal responses are bullshit and no one is actually reading them. Maybe paid members will have their appeals looked at but I doubt anyone else does.

That is what happened to me… the bots banned me within a minute for a metaphorically based - though salty - post. 14 years.

Thing is, I noticed a change in the algorithm not too long after the IPO since my homepage started in with more rage-bait subs and many were ones I’d not visited or even heard of. It was subtle but also kinda disheartening. I decided to manually delete all of what I could and as I was going through the posts I noticed that the art subs I used to go to had all but disappeared on my home page.

I used to go to photoshopbattles all the time and as I was scrolling my home pages, it was nowhere to be seen. Nor was AppleHelp, VintageApple or MacPro…

Delete all your Reddit bookmarks and favorites and find a lemmy community to launch yourself into. I picked gaming and a few news ones and so far, it’s fine… Even moreso that I found the old.lemmy.zip page and it’s comfortable to me as I was dedicated to old.reddit and RES.

It’s mandatory in 49 states.

In New Hampshire it is not, if you 100% own your vehicle and it has no liens or debts tied to it and you have not been arrested (not convicted, but merely arrested) for a DUI.

We also have the cheapest insurance (for the population density of the Northeast - I mean, yeah places like Montana probably are cheaper as they have scant traffic on the roads) because it is NOT mandated, so people can tell the insurers to fuck off it their rates are too high.

(but I gotta be honest on this point if you’re uninsured and even if someone else is the cause of an accident and they’re insured, you’re going to have to lawyer up to get paid for the claim. So just on the lawyer angle, insurance is smart… Heck, just a liability policy wil cover you. Collision… Well… if you’re a dolt at the wheel and drive off the road and hit a rock wall… that’s on you, otherwise… get that coverage as well…)

Because of this, NH has some of the highest compliance rates - over 90% of all drivers - in the country.

Isn’t a truly free market grand?