UnicornKitty
@UnicornKitty@lemmy.world
- Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here? 1 year ago:
I’m very interested in understanding. But I don’t want to always be the smartest person in the room. I’m already the smartest in most situations I’m in IRL. If it was always like that, I’d definitely go crazy.
- Comment on Why is that on the internet, people assume you're a male from America, but if you're a vegan on the internet, people assume you're female? 1 year ago:
My guess would be that with the huge amount of American males (it is a big country after all) people just assume. And women are known to care about animals more, whether that is true or not.
I’ve been called a guy before and my name doesn’t exactly strike people as male. I am female. I’ve been on the internet long enough not to care.
- Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here? 1 year ago:
I would say no. Lots of the super smart people become eccentric. I suspect any smarter and they’d just end up flat crazy. Dealing with being the only one in the room who understands what you’re saying can be lonely.
I’m working with a group of people, some 10 years younger than me, who don’t really understand technology. It feels weird.
- Comment on Nightmares are just your brain doing combat readiness drills 1 year ago:
Oh so you’ve been a bowl of petunias I see
- Comment on Why do people road rage? 1 year ago:
Back when I had this issue, it was because I had a stressful job, and all I want to do is go home but you get people on these winding ass country roads who don’t know them so they go 20 under!!
Now I just get mad if someone is stupid and almost hits me.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
This makes me sad. I was excited to find a decent browser too.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
My biggest one is $30 total. That’s also my only patreon currently. I will do more of those soon. I have a list. The youtube memberships probably add up to somewhere around that amount in total. Yes it’s probably way more than premium. I really loved the pay what you want phase of music, but at that time I was broke.
I am a big believer of supporting talent whenever I can. I am grateful that I have the chance to do so now. My current budget for that stuff is low right now because we are working on moving.
Thanks to the state of the US, we would have been considered middle class before, but now it’s back to lower. Your dollars don’t stretch very far. I’m lucky to have a husband who feels the same way I do. We will never be rich in money, but we help as much as we can wherever we go. We also make donations to non-profit organizations we know don’t use that money to line their own pockets. So those are the smaller places that always get overlooked. I foster kittens, and we sponsor each one. That means we pay the fees associated with adopting said kitten.
Apologies for the info dump, but it’s a subject I love. I’ve been dreaming of the day I could do these things since I was in single digits.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
Brave did?
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
Or you could just become a member of their channel. I look at it this way though. If a youtuber I’m watching has lots of subscribers, one more member in that community probably isn’t going to make a difference. If a youtuber I’m watching doesn’t have the subscriber numbers they deserve, I will become a member. I always choose the highest tiers for them too. And join their patreon and do the same there. If I do that, I will actually listen/watch on patreon then put both YouTube versions in my watch list for when I need background noise and just upvote both videos.
That way they get all the things I can possibly do for them without giving youtube as much as I give the creators. This is my understanding of how that works though. With premium, if they actually give any of that money to the creators (my heart says no, corporations suck), it would be way less than the channel membership would give them. I don’t actually know how much premium costs though.
Please do correct me if I’m wrong. At the moment I don’t have very many people on my memberships. And I know most people these days probably can’t afford to do that, but even a $1 or $2 membership to one or a couple of them can make a difference to the ones you really support and who probably need it more than they’d get from premium.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
Use Brave instead of chrome or Firefox or whatever. As of last night it was still good.
- Comment on When does the future begin? 1 year ago:
What if we actually did? Scary.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
Sorry that’s not exciting enough.
- Comment on Have you ever felt a imaginary switch click that changed the trajectory of your life? 1 year ago:
This is how my children turned out more well adjusted than me.
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 1 year ago:
We are moving out of our red state by the end of the year. I do have a dog in this race. I’m a mother to a daughter. We only waited because of opportunity, but we’ve been planning it since RvW.
I will always encourage people to move out of red states if they can, especially Texas. Find a place that makes you happy.
- Comment on Would you work for a corporation that you oppose ideologically, if the pay is good? 1 year ago:
Nope. To be fair I wouldn’t look at the sticker price if it was a company of ill repute. I would have to be offered the CEO of that company so I can fix it. Only way.
- Comment on What are good examples of cute as a look for men/masculine folks? 1 year ago:
This was my first thought.