I’d absolutely use a lawyer that put a badass dragon on every page

Good for them

Agreed. When the images started to change it got really creepy.

One of these things is not like the others

Best alternative I’ve found is Signal for VoIP and parsec for game streaming

Is the TOR part optional?

Use an app with filter lists. Add american political terms to filter. Experience gets muuuuuch better.

Agreed.

Plus the money actually goes directly to the creators you watch.

Yep. And besides, the only people actually taking significant risk here are the instance hosters storing the content.

Creator-owned platforms are the answer. I pay 2.50 USD/month for Nebula, and I have a less invasive experience, no ads, and the creators are paid better.

I also pay ~5/mo for Dropout, which is entirely owned by the people who run it.

In both cases, I feel as though I’m getting more value out of my time spent watching compared to the average YouTube video. Higher quality, less fluff, less algorithm bait.

I think we are going to completely abstract from traditional ethics, entertainment, and communication, aside from a few niche communities akin to a 21st century Amish.

You’d effectively be capable of being in two places at once.

Shit, that was good. Maybe making the switch will help reduce the amount of ambient doom I feel nowadays.

I used this trick a few years back during a cold snap when my furnace wasnt working. It did genuinely seem to increase the temp of my room by around ~10 Fahrenheit over an hour or so.

my understanding was capturing the hot air for a moment allowed more heat to radiate (and the pot did genuinely get to around 150 degrees according to laser thermometer) instead of the hot air rising in a narrow stream and losing its heat into the cold ceiling.

Didn’t have a fancy setup, just a spare pot balanced on three mugs over some tea candles.

I reccomend this series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYxuJ9ujAYo

Reminds me of the Rimworld world view

This is the one case where I’d make an exception. I read through the threads, it got particularly heated.

Life has gotten better since I dropped it. Moved a dozen or so people over to Signal and have been running with that ever since.

I do miss the ability to easily stream games, though.

874 partners

Man these polycules are getting crazy