This must be malware! This test also works without downloading any app - or indeed without a phone.

The United States.

“American comeback” indeed…

Well, I don’t wish ill on anybody. But when it does happen to some people, schadenfreude can be enjoyable.

Rest in piss Charlie.

If the sickos who go into schools with guns switch to gunning down MAGAts instead, I’m all for it.

It is not Greta Thunberg’s flotilla.

I know it’s meant to mean the flotilla Greta Thunberg is part of, but I reckon it’s worth pointing out.

Sam Altman is worried the dead internet theory is coming true the same way the Sacklers are worried there might be an opioid crisis.

A strangely pointed metaphor of America today…

My personal issue with Brilliant is that I never want to hear about Brilliant, but somehow they regularly force me to.

So you think I’m a Curiosity Stream shill and my comment is an elaborate way to plug their name here do you? 🙂

I dump on NordVPN because I think they’re shite and I praise Curiosity Stream because I think they’re not. It goes both ways: not everything positive is suspicious - although I understand where your cynicism is coming from, in this age of falseness, con artistry, psyops and manufacturing of consent on a grand scale.

Yeah you’re right. I forgot about those. That’s cool.

But there aren’t many Youtubers who do that.

That’s exactly what it it!

I pulled on it harder and the shower head holder came down with it - although I had to fight the brake quite hard.

Quite a clever thing.

Thanks!

Sponsorblock doesn’t catch sponsored segments, viewers do that.

I’m aware of that. It was just a turn of phrase.

It doesn’t seem to do anything other than what you see in the video. It’s not connected to anything, and it offers very little resistance.

It basically looks like a retractable keychain holder integrated into a shower head rail.

I will say this about regular sponsorship - and if you’re a company bribing Youtubers to shill your shit, take heed:

Whenever a Youtuber interrupts their content to sell me garbage I don’t want (and SponsorBlock doesn’t catch it), I take note of the company and it goes in the very long shit-list of companies I try to avoid patronizing.

The more Youtubers that company bribes, the higher it rises in my shit-list.

The more the Youtuber tries to seamlessly weave the plug into their narrative, to sneakily make me watch it by not realizing they’ve switched to the plug, the higher the company they shill for rises in my shit-list - and this one annoys me no end, so the companies that pay Youtubers to make clever seamless transitions to the plugs go very quickly to the top. If you’re going to waste my time with your fucking shill job, at least be honest about it.

When a company is on my shit-list, I will go the extra mile and then some to never buy anything from it, even if it sells the best and only product I really want. Fortunately, they rarely do: it’s always shit.

Examples of companies at the very top of my shit-list:

NordVPN (or any VPN supplier I hear about on Youtube really)
BetterHelp
Brilliant
…

They can all fuck right off.

I do make an exception for those Youtubers who shill for quality content platforms that are alternatives to Youtube, for documentary and science videos and such, like Curiosity Stream. Not because I like the shilling, but because they advertise a service that competes with Google and that always gets my vote.

I believe that’s what Louis Rossmann does on a regular basis on his channel.

Hey no sweat 🙂 I just happen to be old enough to have known / read about / heard about RMS for decades. Given enough time, if you’re at all interested in the free software movement, his less-than-savory traits naturally end up coming to your attention.

Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.

Could we perhaps not drag RMS out of whatever dark place we’re blessed not to hear about him from now?

We have enough pedo shit going on with the POTUS at the moment.

Also, LibreOffice saves in .docx format, if you want to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic.

This is drivel. Previous generations did have it easier than some recent ones.

Did I claim otherwise?

Of course we gen-Xers had it easier. And our boomer parents before us even more so. This is totally unrelated to what I said, which is that older folks tend to remember the world as better in the past than it truly was.

Also, America sucks and always will.

That is what I said. There is no better America in the past.