Seems like OP is not familiar with fae mythology.

Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren't bound to license agreements, turns out it's actually very easy to have a "massive" content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.

When I quit at McDonalds to start a career in welding, the owner of the store happened to be visiting. He took me aside and told me "You know, those guys at... (Sorry, what was that place called again? Right...) You know, I've heard the people there aren't as nice as we are here. Are you sure you want to leave?"

I've never wanted to punch an old man so much in my life. In that moment, he was the personification of class warfare to me, trying to "trick" me into throwing away my future just so he could have more cheap labour. And the fact it was so blatantly obvious added insult to, well... insult.

Anyway, it's not the same, but the "wallpapers" thing definitely gives me the same vibes, lol.

Not to turn this into a sociology discussion, but for anyone unaware: this is a fairly common pattern.

Women often pioneer fields like this, but as soon as it becomes seen as something "important" out "respectable" then suddenly it becomes male dominated.

The opposite also happens, where as society deems something as unimportant, a male dominated field will become female dominant - see teaching for an unfortunate example of a field that used to be highly paid and respected, and is now largely looked down on.

Sorry, don't mean to go off on a tangent - it just bugs me and I think more people should be aware of it.

And the funny thing is, rather than competition driving down prices, they only seem to be competing for who can charge the most while showing more ads.

And yet we still haven't figured out nuclear swords smh.

Yeah, anyone calling the creator of the 40-hour work week "Satan" is obviously ignorant of the history of labour.

As you said, we can definitely do better, but at the time it was (quite literally) revolutionary.

Not American, but I would add some severe roadblocks to anything that makes basic housing an "investment".

Plus the Pinkerton thing.

Plus the OGL thing.

Plus...

I made this mistake with "Ruffles" - a chocolate-covered coconut snack.

I mentioned I liked them, and for the next year or two, every week my grandpa would stop by to give us 2-3 boxes of ruffles. We had a cupboard literally full of them, we were giving them away, and I ate so many that the thought of them makes me feel queasy now. We kept telling him to stop, but the man was on a mission.

Sadly, he passed away last year, and I made sure to bring a couple boxes of Ruffles to the service.

My therapist recommended a book about how ADHD can be a "superpower," but as I read the book I noticed that nearly every single example they gave of some famous person that "leveraged their ADHD into success" was rich to start with.

Like, it obviously wasn't ADHD that made them successful, it was generational wealth - classic "pull yourself by your bootstraps" BS. I couldn't even finish the book, because it was just making me angry.

Keep in mind that your Google results are probably highly personalized. For instance, I tried googling that exact phrase (in a private window), and Lemmy doesnt appear for me at all.