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The lack of ads is great, yeah. And the knock-on from that is the (perhaps over-sold) lack of recommendation system, since ML-based post display is usually tuned to maximize ad views, they end up filling your feed with emotionally charged engagement bait.
Without the ads, the system of being fed content you didn’t subscribe to, and the system of maximizing the emotional impact of that content, never comes to be, and the social media landscape looks wildly different.
I’m so tired. Dear gods am I tired.
Due to my layoff, I’ve started rationing my physiotherapy appointments. My supplementary health insurance lasts until the end of March, so I can try and draw things out a bit more and do work on my own. My gym membership is also paid up for the next 11 months, so I have lots of runway to rehab independently. So, my PT gave me a gym routine for solo rehab, and told me I should do it 2x a week when I have an appointment, and 3x a week when I don’t.
I tried it out this weekend, and things went well. I was happy with it. Then on Tuesday night, I did it again, this time with more weight. I wasn’t going to do anything else until my physio appointment this morning.
But my wife decided she liked doing the weights, so we went yesterday morning. I was just going to do some of my physio ‘homework’, not my gym routine, but… but… the equipment was right there. I felt good! It was low weight! And maybe I just needed to get used to doing this stuff more, like I would if I was working a manual labour job. It only takes a week or so to acclimate to that!
Yeah… That was a mistake.
I’m so tired today. My everything feels so heavy. And I have karate in an hour! WTF?!?? What’s that doing in my day???!?
At least I don’t have to get up for work tomorrow, I guess.
Chris Trottier Americans also don’t want them. They speak French.
2021-2024 we didn’t have this shit
Sure you did. It just wasn’t happening to white folks within your borders, so nobody gave a shit. What you’re seeing now is the face of the US outside of the country, y’all just never had to see it.
This is the face of the US to non-whites, y’all just never cared enough to do something about it.
All that’s happened is that they finally crossed a line that is moved white folks to action. But that’s just a matter of degrees, not types.
I’ve always considered myself a Nintendo fanboy, but hearing about other Nintendo fanboys on the Internet is a continual culture shock. I love my Switch games, but the hardware is weak sauce, and the Switch 2 is unconscionably expensive. I’ve said before that I don’t care about the game prices going up, but I have a hard limit on what I’ll spend on the base hardware, since it doesn’t even include a play experience.
But also, I am continuously playing games on my PCs. Usually old ones. I’m currently replaying Final Fantasy 7. I just finished Ocarina of Time. FF9 is up next once I finish 7. Doom/II and Duke Nukem 3d are constantly revisited. I was planning on playing Baulders Gate I and II before picking up 3. I’ve been meaning to finish Doom 2016 for… well, 10 years now. My Steam collection is overrun, and almost exclusively with games that will run on my little convertible ultrabook.
I don’t think these people like video games. I think these people just like being on a “winning team”, and they chose Team Nintendo when they were “winning”.
Jürgen Hubert I wish Canadian authorities had such hesitations. We’re still treating this, in many ways, as a top-down problem, and are trying to wait out the current administration, completely and wilfully blind to the oligarchs who are propping the administration up, and who the administration are working for.
Especially with HP, I hear. I suspect this is part of the reason a lot of the community on Reddit and the Paizo forums think low level play is “rough” or could use some “work”. Everyone’s used to big numbers being relatively meaningless, and suddenly small numbers are getting you one-shot.
Chris Trottier Just the police of colour, though, from what I understand.
The people next in line always believe they have more in common with the abusers than they do with the abused. They’re often cheering the abusers on.
Charnock Yeah, you either tear it all down and start from scratch, or you get Vladimir Putin as dictator for life.
America is going to actively choose their own Putin over ever admitting they were wrong.
