After being a few months away from being married and seeing it all fall apart I’ve realized that I don’t ever want to be married.

Doesn’t mean I don’t want a long term relationship but I don’t want to tie the knot and tangle up my life like that ever again. If we had gotten married then divorced my ex would have ruined me. I was too soft at that time and I would have let her use me as a doormat on the way out. I know better now but I still don’t want to deal with those complications.

At this point people can believe in whatever they want as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. Someone believing in a bunch of crystals and burning their money on them is a lot less harmful than other beliefs that I won’t mention.

People don’t understand that high numbers of people not voting is a symptom of a problem, not a problem itself.

It’s such a good metric to have and unless you’re a fan of authoritarian governments then I don’t see why you would want mandatory voting. “Everything is fine in our country. Look at all of this engagement in our elections that we forced.” That’s what you sound like if you full on back mandatory voting.

I don’t get the hate for non-voters. Mandatory voting is a dangerous practice due to the existence of the “donkey” vote.

Imagine if even 2/3s of the people who didn’t vote in 2020 just voted for DT because he was the current sitting president and they had no interest in voting but were forced into doing so.

The only people I’m really upset with are the ones who have a clear viewpoint and understanding of the circumstances but didn’t vote out of laziness or out of the belief that we’d win anyways. Those are the people that cost us 2016 and those are the ones that could potential cost us this election if they don’t get out there.

It’s a shitposting meme. The poster has this pinned on their twitter:

That said… I have heard horror stories about poor theater staff finding cucumbers after the 50 shades premiere. Some of it was just people memeing and trying to prank but I’m not entirely sure about all of it.

Unless it’s a YouTuber. Then they’re possibly pronouncing it wrong so people will comment about their pronunciation and fuel the algorithm.

Forgot about that banger.

YouTube is great in general. I remember as a teen going into college thinking that the changes were going to kill it but really the platform has a lot of great content for everything. Everything except gaming anyways, which is a bit ironic.

Tutorials, cooking videos, engineering and math videos, historical discussions and theory.

If it’s not corporations then it’s PACs astroturfing. It’s nothing new.

Says a lot about where our society is going.

I know someone is going to make it sound easier than what it really is, but having to sift through the site, fighting against the algorithm’s sorting to find something you like is hard.

More like the client who paid for my firms services coming in, belittling the very professionals they paid to do their job and acting as if they know better.

Could be Québécois . They put the dollar sign after the number, rather than before if I recall.

YouTube already does this in a less invasive way. “Here’s this random video on theory crafting how we can put life on Mars that we just thought you might like.”

I was really hoping that with the onset of AI people would be more skeptical of content they see online.

This was one of the reasons. I don’t think there’s anything we can do to prevent people from acting like this, but what we can do as a society is adjust to it so that it’s not as harmful. I’m still hoping that the eventual onset of it becoming easily accessible and useable will help people to look at all content much more closely.

Not entirely surprised.

The numbers were already up there, but I imagine YouTube’s recent campaign only drove them higher. More people than before are now aware that adblockers exist and they love using them.