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So today I watched probably about 5 hours of youtube content and I think I only ran into about 2 ads during the entire experience I really don't experience that many ads on youtube anymore and I have turned off my ad blockers and such explicitly for Youtube since I wanted to give at least a little bit of ad revenue to the content creators that I watched at the time that I turned it off. Yet I continuously hear that people have been having problems with too many ads and that ads are ruining the experience on youtube. How many ads do people who watch without ad blocker get on a video such that it's seemingly ruining the experience?

When the FBI actually does a good thing but it's running a Child Pornography website 🥶

For me the most important quality a role model should invoke is hope, whether that be in the current system and how things can run or the hope that things can change for the better. Whether it be fictional characters or real people the most inspiring characters are the people who try to in some way create change in a seemingly hopeless world and struggle through to make the world better not necessarily even for themselves but for everyone around them, it's also thus what snake oil salesmen and other such hope merchants inevitably prey upon. They are preying on your hope for a better world or your hope to get something out of you whether that is power or just monetary benefits.

Hope is something that everyone wishes to cling to as a quality but that people seem to have started reducing down to a transactional thing. When it's anything but that, the people who bring hope always do so at great cost to themselves. People who try to sell hope are people who try and put on a façade that they are helping you out of genuinely good intentions even when they aren't. They are just trying to use your feelings of despair to lure you out.

Anyway that's enough about hope from me what do you think of when you hear the word hope.

Does anyone have any book recommendations for books in the science fiction genre preferably with space ships involved and not just grounded to one planet or such.

One thing I miss most about PCM at reddit was the need to flair up. Is there an equivalent here?

I ran through the political compass test and took a screenshot of my result to use as my user avatar. Is there a better way?

I need to post a sample image to check some stuff on the admin side. But since I have your attention, why don't you tell me about your day?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/148716

(posted for discussion, not necessarily in agreement with author)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/08/thematic-books-series/

Links to articles used in book (not linked on the site, presumably this is the book's contents):

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Why we need a speed limit for the internet

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/why-we-need-a-speed-limit-for-the-internet/

Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/email-in-the-18.html

How to build a low-tech internet?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet

How to build a low-tech website?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/

How sustainable is a solar powered website?

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html

How and why I stopped buying laptops

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops

Why the office needs a typewriter revolution

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/11/why-the-office-needs-a-typewriter-revolution.html

What a magnificient being it's an absolute injustice that people have been trying to change his name to Slime Toad. I mean he doesn't even look like a slime he looks like he's an excellent jam and he's definitely a frog and not some kind of toad I mean how could you mix these two things up.

Konami really needs to step up and fix the issue they made by renaming this card from it's pure and perfect prior form with this new weird and silly decision that they have decided to make by changing it's name. I still have strong feelings about this change even years after it happening. Konami Please fix.