sigh

Yanks.

Fuck no. They’re a stupid, terrible idea peddled by psychotic grifters.

Worth mentioning that this wasn’t a problem on other systems. Unix had long, case-sensitive names before DOS existed.

Canadian here.

Stop it. Stop it stop it STOP IT!

Refuse tips everywhere. If a business gives you the ‘option,’ refuse. Refuse, explain, and stop going there.

PENALIZE any place that sets up tip options. Hurt them. Drive them out of business.

Break the spine of tipping now. Before it’s too late.

Years ago, a company wanted Tom Waits to do a commercial. He refused, so they hired a voice impersonator to do it instead. He sued, and won.

Not in the US, but here are some ideas.

• citizen’s arrest
• protest local government to have the perps arrested and charged
• doxxing

The last of these will eventually lead to the ultimate and worst response - retaliation and possibly civil war. Frankly, I don’t know if the US can avoid it at this point.

Apparently tabs are tags.

Alberta got rid of them eight years ago or so, but before that they were extremely one-use items. Super-fragile with an incredibly strong glue. You could NOT have remove them with a razor blade and the precision of a master jeweller.

Besides, annual registration is what - 80 bucks? Not worth it.

The presence of a laugh track is irrelevant. The necessity of one for people to find the show funny is a different matter.

This isn’t new.

I stopped watching TV in the mid-90s when Star Trek TNG turned out to be a disaster, and there was nothing else good on.

Most of the shows from that era (Seinfeld, Married with Children, Malcolm in the Middle), are about horrible people being horrible to each other - with a laugh track! - or about unrealistic people behaving in ridiculous ways (Friends, I’m looking at you!).

Sitcoms are rarely funny, but that’s a long-standing tradition. Shitty and/or cringe-inducing behaviour rule the time slots.

Waterfox.

We moved a few weeks ago. Yesterday afternoon, my new neighbour who I had not yet met yelled over the fence at me. We met up out front, introduced ourselves, did the social thing, and then he said “hey, your new house has an air conditioner, and there’s a cover on it. You probably want to take that off.”

He was right. I did. Thanks new neighbour, for being…well, for being a neighbour.

Mostly, seeing my family succeed.

I’m not very happy very often, but I watched my son get award after award last week, and was happy. A year ago, my wife finished her Masters’ degree with a 4.0 GPA, and I was happy.

Personally, this morning I went for the first >100km motorcycle ride of the season. Once I was out of traffic and riding through some of the prettiest scenery on the planet, I was happy.

Try a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.

yes.

Theory, economics, etc., all have something to say about it. But at the end of the day, Netflix (and the rest) want to deliver as little as possible for dollar of revenue.

No no no fucking NO!

Do NOT accept this! Do NOT normalize this! DO NOT COMPLY!

Did you really need to see that youtube video? If it was that important, then find another way. Lie. Get a downloader. Get creative. Or walk away, since it was probably not that important

DON’T SELL YOUR IDENTITY FOR CONVENIENCE. DON’T WILLINGLY FEED THE SPIES MORE INFORMATION.

I feel like this belongs in shittyasklemmy.

neesh for all purposes.

I’ve never heard anyone talk about a “nitch.” Maybe an US dialect?

Canada has Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID). People can - with medical approval and assistance - choose to go out on their own terms.

Do you mean within the US or trust internationally?

The rest of the world has begrudgingly let the US dominate world commerce, culture, and morality. Now they’re realizing how much of their own identity they’ve given away, and are struggling to recover from it. Critically, even if the US ever gets their shit together again, nobody else wants to go back to the same relationship they had. We’ve been forced out of an abusive relationship, and now we’re free.

Generally, because that’s not how cartoons are voiced.

However, table reads at comic conventions are a popular thing.