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  • I’ll put an offender on blast: Max.

    A couple of months ago I subscribed to the highest tier, ad-free plan. Around a week into it, we started getting ads for different kinds of sports shows, interrupting the shows and movies at random spots just like traditional ads on television.

    First thing first: Back in the days when we rode our Dimetrodons to school both ways uphill in fallen volcanic ash, we called it Cinemax and HBO was separate. And neither one of them had ads show up in the middle of their content because they were premium channels.

    Second thing second: When I contacted customer service about it, they actually had the audacity to tell me that those aren’t ads, they are previews for other content offered in their service.

    So to me, whether it is a bug in their system or the definition of ad has changed in the ensuing millennia since I first learned its meaning, the fact that there are even ads in premium media services like these is a prime example of enshittification to me.


  • I have a family member who told me last year that they believe Christians are the most persecuted group in the USA, even more so than gay people.

    In truth it was very challenging to stay calm in the face of someone saying something so blatantly biased and false. Packaged as an opinion, of course, but presented as the truth.

    I asked questions and challenged some of the statements being made, but I know for a fact that the only thing I accomplished is that she’s unlikely to make that particular statement in front of me again. No minds were changed that day. It’s just sad.

    As someone who actually IS persecuted in this country for things I cannot change about myself, I really don’t get why someone would want to live under the delusion that they are being persecuted when they otherwise aren’t. It’s not fun and there’s no benefit to being persecuted.








  • Purely due to circumstance, the price of eggs became an easy, overly simplified economic indicator, and via massive amounts of misinformation/disinformation, somehow an indicator of the Biden administration’s efficacy. Eggs were essentially the stand-in for all the complicated and politically inconvenient stuff that willfully ignorant folks don’t understand, prefer not to think about, or simply want to deny.

    Willfully ignorant people know that grocery prices in general were being affected by inflation, but understanding the causes and recognizing that it was a global phenomenon was not something they were willing to engage in because it was an easy way to demonize and blame Biden.

    In my personal experience, when prices spiked last time, these were the people who claimed that eggs were the bulk of their diet because it was the only protein they could afford to eat anymore. That was never true for most, but that’s what they claimed as they lamented how they could no longer afford to eat. They also liked to mention the prices of the highest price tier eggs (name brand, organic, fancy stuff, free range, etc) and try to pass that off as the going rate for eggs, despite the fact that they never bought those “premium” eggs prior to the price hike and that the “cheaper” eggs cost significantly less. Also, now that it’s happening under their preferred presidential administration, suddenly they are much less vocal (almost completely silent) about the price of eggs. But if forced into a discussion about the topic, they suddenly appear to understand and advocate for the idea that it’s caused by factors outside of the president’s control. Funny how that works, huh?

    On the flip side, most of the folks who are currently bringing up the egg prices are doing so in a satirical sense (even if it’s covertly satirical), fully aware that Trump isn’t in control of the egg prices. It’s just a good way to further demonstrate his supporters’ own hypocrisy. Also, it’s sort of giving the willfully ignorant people a taste of their own medicine. Probably not terrible effective from that standpoint, but cathartic for the people currently doling it out.




  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtftoScience Memes@mander.xyzIt's coming
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    10 days ago

    It’s a meme pic, so I’m just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it’s the “mushroom” fruiting body that’s doing anything in this research. It’s almost certainly the mycelium or we’re dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don’t produce mushrooms at all.

    Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.


  • As I recently lamented in another thread, I’ve had to give up on Taco Bell. I’ve given it a couple of tries post-Covid and it’s no longer good, no longer cheap, and no longer fast based on my recent-ish, terrible experiences. I don’t eat at fast food places often, so I definitely don’t claim to be an expert here, but of the fast food places I’ve eaten at in the past 5 or so years, Taco Bell has declined the worst, by far.

    Also, I learned how to make my own crunch wraps at home with black jack and hookers. I mean with higher quality ingredients tailored to my and my family’s preferences. It’s not difficult, just a little time consuming. Still not something I’d eat regularly, but nice to have once in awhile now that Taco Bell fails so hard.


  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtftomemes@lemmy.worldWhen does it happen?
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    15 days ago

    Here’s the raw truth, as I understand it. I’m one of the people who has used this phrase. Typically I pull it out when I absolutely lack the ability to explain and verbalize something in a way that the intended audience can understand and accept. Yes, it’s a failing on my part, but also, despite what everyone wants to believe, not everything can be distilled down to a simple easily understandable explanation without losing the message. You’ll probably understand when you get older.

    Realistically, it’s not so much a guarantee that you’ll understand the exact nature of what I’m saying when you’re older. It’s more that when you’re older, you’re probably going to be more willing to accept that I have my own perfectly valid reasons, even if I can’t articulate them effectively, that the world is complicated, and sometimes it’s those complicated and difficult to articulate threads that are actually the only things holding everything together. So, when I say you’ll understand when you’re older, I might not mean that in the most literal sense, it’s very likely that I’m speaking more in a metaphorical way.



  • In my industry, there’s a saying along the lines of “Good, fast, cheap. Pick two.”

    I think the fast food industry version is “Good, fast, cheap? No, no. And believe it or not, also no.”

    I don’t eat fast food very often, so this is entirely anecdotal. Of the fast food chains I’ve eaten at in recent history, Taco Bell is by far the worst. Against my better judgment, I even broke down and gave them a second chance at a different location thinking maybe my first terrible experience was a fluke. Didn’t work out. Makes me think it’s bad everywhere. Wendy’s has held up the best of the places I’ve eaten. It’s definitely not cheap anymore, fast depends on the location as well as other factors, and good is relative, but overall it hasn’t gone down hill as bad as the others.



  • They have nothing better to do than store a decade’s worth of password hashes so that every 90 days I have to come up with a completely new password that’s somehow magically different enough from every other password I’ve come up with in the past 10 years and is at least 10 characters from each of the 4 holy categories.