Discord, YouTube and Twitch. Even if I don’t count 1 because I don’t really build any online presence, all 3 together probably count as having mainstream social media no matter how strict the definition.

For purely economic reasons, the less often I need to buy it, the more I allow myself to splurge.

So vegetables and my go to drink I consume everyday are bought the absolute cheapest, but that spice blend for those veggies lasts me months so I really don’t care if there’s a cheaper alternative.

Of course, expensiveness is measured per kg/litre, paying a bit more up front is always worth it if it means a lower price per kg (if you can consume it before it goes bad).

Never heard that argument.

When I mention any transport be free, the only thing people care about is “But won’t it be overrun with the undesirables?”, the last part being described with various levels of political correctness.

And while it might be male privilege that I don’t find the feeling of security a particularly big problem, some people do reject it on the basis of giving homeless people temporary shelter alone. Fuck those guys.

I don’t know how this fits into any off this, but “gendered bus routes” popped into my head. This is definitely something in our society taken to the absurd, but I’m not sure what.

Fairly certain what you describe is what they meant with inflation proof, compared to a fixed price.

In any case, I imagine most Patreon creators have over time adjusted their reward tiers, or gathered more Patreon supporters to keep up with how Inflation affects their costs, thus giving more to Patreon. Both the company and creators would benefit here.

Instead, increasing the (average) percentage just helps the company at the cost of creators. To make their pay keep up with inflation, they still need to either increase the number of supporters or the price of rewards, so the company benefits doubly. Edit: forgot, this change is currently only for new creators. Existing accounts do not need to adjust their pricing (yet)

There seem to be enough alternatives that only charge a 5% fee, so this might just lose Patreon money if enough Creators see this as a step too far.

The reason there are fewer child births in the US since the 90s is mainly the reduction of pregnancies in the demographic “25 and younger”. They didn’t made a conscious choice, looking at their abacus and evaluating the state of the world. They slipped into it and were forced to make it work. Interestingly, they then still had children later in life as well, for more complex and personal reasons.

It seems to me, that if you give woman the choice, they choose not be pregnant at the cost of their career.

@gork is that true?

For once, we shouldn’t assume stupidity when malice is a perfectly valid explanation.

Can’t harass activists with the threat of jail time for some chalk drawings, better claim it might not have been chalk.

Link him Bill Wurtz’s “history of the entire world I guess” and tell him to skip to 2:08

It really is up to him if he wants to smell like roses or not, it’s totally understandable to pass on that.

If only he wasn’t such a bitch about expressing that preference though.

As knowledge of sleep paralysis spread through the internet, people quickly memed on the concept of having your own demon that watches you sleep. Lot’s of impact font memes beginning with "My paralysis demon… " changing this rather horrifying concept into just an imaginary friend or room mate.

The joke here is that Debra’s demon would rather spend time with that man, and Debra misjudged how close their “friendship” was. Like the awkward situation of realising one’s best friend is best friends with someone else.

A talking apple? How novel.

I have to imagine this peanut butter was intended to feed animals, probably for hunting.

So it isn’t even particularly sweet and processed at a lower standard than the stuff the husband was used to. But what do I know, maybe he always intended to bait hogs with it.

What a weird bunch, to me these are 2 titans, 1 serial one-hit-wonder, and 1 guy whose humour is family guy cutaway gags.

Ah, yes. Their “We found space whales on Nimbus!” video (about speculative Zoology of alien worlds), which was later titled “What actual aliens might look like” was something I could excuse. I don’t consider claiming the impossible click-bait, but seeing the controversy, it was best they changed it.

However, what I really hated was their ad for a “strange matter” vile/necklace (i forgor), not because they lied about it containing reality destroying elements, but because they did the “buy now because they’ll never come back” trick. I consider manipulative sales tactics to be a greater sin than clickbait.

BMI works for me, skill issue :P

I believe discussion on this flares up now and then because it is an easy answer, tough decision.

If you make this decision for others: of course this is the most ethical thing to do, the data isn’t ambiguous.

If you are yourself affected: Oof. Yes it might be better for society, but personally I value this and that, and I am but one and would rather wait on legislation before I do anything.

We love to argue it because one side thinks experiencing it taints your view, the other that only reading data misses the point. Can be about indoor cats, vegan diets or pineapple on pizza, the argument itself never matters.

I really don’t like how, whenever there is an article on something that works, people feel the need to post whatever solution they prefer and say it’s better.

This project had 2 goals - reduce pollution and raise revenue for transit upgrades. It succeeded. Better than a tram would have on it’s own, I might add.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good, if you want to share that video so much, just post it, instead of linking it with that downer of a comment.

I can recognise the Font/lack thereof.

Get that AI slop out of my face before I block you.

Ah, I have heard the name of those before.

Egrets, right?