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- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 day ago:
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 day ago:
No, the point is to prevent real democracy by being “democratic enough”.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 day ago:
All the constitutional monarchies started as just monarchies.
Nope.
Spain, for instance, started as a dictatorship.
Then the bastard died of being an old piece of shit, hopefully extremely painfully, and the corrupt fratricidal parasite he’d named as a successor, a descendant of some dude who had been king long before the dictatorship (which started as a coup against a democratic republican government) he’d been grooming for years, was named king.
There was a sham “democratic transition” that defecated a “democratic construction” with the military threatening the elected politicians to make sure the new constitution wasn’t too democratic, and a referendum where the people voted for that thing because at least it wasn’t as bad as going back to the dictatorship.
Then a few years later the parasite (secretly) staged a coup, and then publicly diplomatically dismantled it, enshrining himself as a saviour of democracy and making sure the citizenship wouldn’t push for radical change, lest the next coup succeed.
As the bastard Franco said before he died, he left everything “tied up and well tied up”.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 day ago:
Or 1984, or Brave New World.
My money’s on Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, though.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 day ago:
Late stage capitalism, then. 🤷♂️
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 1 week ago:
Photocopy of a photocopy.
It’s always been obvious that this was the inevitable result of them poisoning the Internet (their own source of information for training) with their garbage.
- Comment on Bunny Girls Evolution 1 month ago:
- Comment on Rising egg prices and high demand are prompting consumers to rent or buy chickens, but experts warn the move may not cut costs 2 months ago:
Do you want bird flu? Because this is how you get bird flu.
(Though, to be fair, if you’re in the US you’ll almost certainly end up getting it anyway, so you might as well enjoy some eggs and cleaning lots of chicken guano while you’re at it.)
- Comment on telecommunications dish 2 months ago:
Does the cone of shame do anything in this case?
Looks like the nozzle would still be able to reach everything it’d reach normally…
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 2 months ago:
At one particular point it was, if I recall correctly, though Chrome also (mis)implements some standards its own way, so Google might also use that as a form of attack against anyone who implements them properly, much like Microsoft did in the bad old IE6 days…
It’s all a silly arms race, though, with Google coming up with new ways to enshittify the web for anyone not using Chrome or using ad blockers and Mozilla and ad blocker (and alternative YouTube frontend) developers trying to figure out what they broke this time and how to fix it, so what worked yesterday might not work today and work again tomorrow.
It’s all a profoundly stupid waste of everyone’s time and resources (all for a few more ad views) which will hopefully end up with Google losing their monopoly position on the web like the Internet Explorer bullshit did for Microsoft, but will keep being a major hassle for everyone until it does.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 2 months ago:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtube-responds-to-delayed-loading-in-rival-browser-complaints, for instance.
Or https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/, for an older one.
As for how to fix it, Mozilla tend to do a pretty good job of eventually working around Google’s bullshit, so keeping the browser updated is a good first step.
Since Google tends to roll this stuff out regionally and doing A/B testing, though, the best way is to identify what specific handicap they’re hassling you with (which specific features don’t work or don’t work right, when they work properly on chrome), and look for an updated add on or userscript to fix that particular issue.
Or you can just look for a generic YouTube or Google Docs “enhancer” add on and hope it fixes the issue without making the whole user experience too different from what you’re used to.
- Comment on Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout 2 months ago:
Mainly that Google intentionally makes its sites (like YouTube or Google Docs) slower and less useable when they detect you’re using Firefox, and/or ad blockers (which you need Firefox to use, so same difference).
It’s mostly fixable with add-ons and userscripts (and eventually, one hopes, with an antitrust lawsuit), but it’s still a hassle.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 months ago:
Any software intended to cause harm is malware. MBFC is software intended to cause harm. MBFC is malware.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 months ago:
It has malicious intent, therefore it’s malware. 🤷♂️
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 months ago:
reminiscent of a malware site
Well, that’s because it is malware.
it, is to me at least, right leaning
It’s not right leaning.
It’s disinformation malware whose sole purpose is to move the Overton window as far right as possible.
It labels anything short of outright fascism as far left.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 3 months ago:
The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 3 months ago:
Revenge. 🤷♂️
- Comment on 🎵 🎶 🎵 3 months ago:
Col Do Ma Ma Daqua!
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 3 months ago:
I’m from Belgium
No you’re not. Everyone knows Belgium doesn’t exist, especially Belgians.
- Comment on What Were The Best Fan Service Anime Of 2024? 5 months ago:
I love how no one has said anything about Dandadan, because, of course it’s Dandadan. If there’s anything Dandadan is not, it’s subtle.
Fun show, though, except when it chooses to traumatize the viewer for no apparent reason.
- Comment on What Were The Best Fan Service Anime Of 2024? 5 months ago:
Frieren looks like it was directed by Quentin Tarantino, at times.
So many feet shots!
(Also, as others have mentioned, Übel’s armpits; but, mostly, feet.)
- Comment on don't be a coward 5 months ago:
known species with a human level of higher intelligence
- Humans (allegedly; evidence points to most being dumb as a rock).
- Some species of extinct hominids (sure, but they’re extinct).
- Dolphins (and orcas); absolute creeps, though.
- Some species of octopods.
- Some species of parrots.
- Some species of corvids.
- I swear some of those black and white sheepdogs seem more intelligent than many of the people I know.
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
I don’t avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
I don’t avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 5 months ago:
Source?
I mean… [ gestures broadly at everything ]
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 5 months ago:
They see the world as a zero sum game. They can’t imagine being happy unless someone else is unhappy.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 5 months ago:
Most people seem to want others not to have a good life, ignoring or disregarding the effects that might have on themselves.
Many if not most would sacrifice their own wellbeing if that guarantees that “the right people” will also suffer. They see the world as a zero sum game, and can’t conceive the possibility of having a good life if others aren’t having a bad one.
Most people suck, often to the point of being monstrous by any decent definition.
- Comment on Dandadan Preview Has Anime Fans Thinking Harry Potter Crossover 6 months ago:
One of Ken’s missing balls, I assume.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 6 months ago:
That’s their end goal: no choice whatsoever, you watch 30 minutes of ads, followed by the 30 second video the algorithm wants you to watch (which is also an ad), 30 more minutes of ads, and so on.
And, since they also own chrome, you can’t go to any other page without first spending at least six hours watching youtube.
- Comment on The universe is bottle-necked at processor speed 6 months ago:
Hard drive space might be bottlenecked by the holographic principle.
