I switch from Google to PA with the first email like this that I got from Google.

I tried maybe 4 alternatives and ended up sticking with PA. I don’t really like it…it’s most used icons are small and hard to reach, navigation is very unintuitive to me…but basically it sucked less than the other options.

Also just as plausible that there’s still some broken noodle crumbs and fragments stuck in the bottom flaps of the box.

It’s mostly edgy teens and people who never grew out of that phase of life.

Super weird correlation, I admit, but in my city it’s been my experience that one odd trend I’ve observed has been that Tesla drivers do three things disproportionately more frequently than drivers of other vehicles:

Lack of using a turn signal (which they arguably share with BMW drivers.

Forcing their way into lane changes and/or cutting people off (often accompanied by a noted lack of signal).

And flat out just plain running red lights. This last one is the most alarming and honestly the one I’ve noticed to be most closely linked to Tesla drivers. It’s so bad that even if I have a solid green when approaching a red light, if I can see a Tesla in approaching or crossing lanes, I’ll let off the gas and hover over the brakes, just in case they “pull a Tesla”. I’ve seen many of them pull up to a solid red, drift to a stop, then find a gap in the cross traffic that has a solid green and just dart across. I’ve seen them turn left on red without stopping. Seen them cause near accidents, all running red lights like they’re just a suggestion.

I don’t know of any liquid or gas hairdressers, so I’m guessing it’s good for all of them.

If her partner drives the car, is she required to wear the onesie?

The sticker makes no mention of driving, so I would think that as long as someone in the vehicle is both lesbian and wearing the onesie, its conditions have been fulfilled.

Yeah it’s come full circle.

Cable exists. You pay for content but still get ads because greed.

Piracy gains traction. Technically illegal but usually unenforced. All content, no ads, kinda a pain, but clearly worth it to many.

Streaming gains traction. Cheaper alternative to cable. On demand. No ads. Many pirates diminish or quit pirating content. Clearly most people are willing to pay a reasonable amount for quality on demand content and no ads.

Streaming really picks up steam as the mainstream starts cutting cable for ad free on demand content for less. Again, people are happy paying for what they see as good value.

Greed creeps back in, content is fractured among many streaming services, making the cost basically a wash vs cable but still has advantages of on demand and no ads and the ability to share and juggle subscriptions.

Greed continues, ads creep back in, “premium” streaming offered for higher fees to eliminate introduced ads. Content continues to diminish. People start turning back to piracy for the same reasons as they did 15-20 years ago. Services also start cracking down on sub sharing.

Assuming greed continues, I predict we’ll see these services attempt to squeeze even more money from the loyal subscribers they have left as they restructure their subscription models to contracts. No longer will there be any paying month to month. But rather you’ll have to enter onto a 1 or 2 year contract to stream. I also predict that they’ll very carefully curate their selections so that new seasons are available to current subscribers, then once the season is complete, they go away for a year before coming back, just to get people to maintain subscriptions instead of juggling contracts by year.

In these areas where bribes are so commonplace for all manner of interactions I just can’t help but wonder how it goes on so long without anyone being desperate enough and wild enough to just pull a gun or a knife and basically say, “My bribe payment to you is just do your damn job and I let you live.”

Or I guess maybe that does happen and then those people get disappeared.

“Be happy about your horrible situation because there are more horrible situations out there” is such a shitty take.

Basically you’re saying “unless you’re the single most unfortunate person on the planet, maybe even throughout all of human history, you should be happy”, which is obviously nonsense.

This sort of collective treatment seems awful “communist” for a system that claims to hate it so much.

Almost like they’re okay with it when it means forcing their will and their hardship onto a group that is powerless to resist…

This would be one of those rare times where I would wish I had cash.

I’d tip the staff directly, based on the original amount, then leave exactly the price of the ordered items, not including the service fee.

Then I’d leave.

This is the natural effect of the core structure of this platform.

And it’s only going to get worse as the user base increases and instances start to defederate one another due to differences in acceptable content and conduct.

I know saying anything the least bit critical of Lemmy means lots of downvotes, but the whole system seems far too prone to fragmentation and the repetition necessary to make up for it.

The whole appeal of Reddit was that it was a one stop shop for key discussion on the topics you were interested in. No matter how many similar communities popped up there was usually one subreddit that was the spot for a topic, and other similar ones were only viable if they focused on a specific niche. Here, it’s completely possible that there might be 20 communities on exactly the same subject that have 90% of their content overlapping…and you have to be subscribed to all of them if you want the extra 10% of unique stuff they bring to the table.

And this, I feel, is one of the biggest issues with Lemmy…and unfortunately one that I could easily see being its Achilles Heel and ultimate undoing as a viable, sustainable model in the long term.

That’s not what they asked though.

The question wasn’t that self-centered, it was asking if a user from an instance that defederated from another instance could still access content from the defederated instance through a direct manual subscription.