People who watch YouTube ads aren’t trying hard enough. You deserve the most unhinged ads possible for your laziness!

Pennywise, you say?

Wait until they’re 2+ and randomly adding things to the cart in the hopes you won’t notice!

If you still enjoy using the self-checkouts for bigger shops then - you might just be a masochist! 🤣

With a toddler in tow, ain’t no way in hell I want to scan and bag a week’s worth of groceries all by myself.

For small shops of a couple items? I’ll absolutely going to go through the self-scans as they’re fast and convenient. But when spending the equivalent of ~$150USD across dozens of items - nah, fuck that noise. Especially when having to deal with any interventions because the machine vision gets confused by what’s happening on camera, or the weight sensor doesn’t correctly detect an item added.

Give me a cashier to scan and pack any day of the week.

TIL rechargeable CR2032s exist, and also that their output voltage is higher than standard ones and apparently may run the risk of damaging circuits?

To be fair, that iconic PS1 texture twitch was Ming-boggling to see in action!

People like to live within their comfort zones. I remember a study being referenced that claimed to show introducing facts contrary to a person’s existing viewpoint don’t get them to change, it just made them double-down and be more defensive.

My parents got me this set of the Childcraft children’s encyclopaedias when I was like 6? I inhaled those things for knowledge back in the pre-internet days!

Am considering getting one for my own kiddo when they get old enough, but like most things from my childhood - they look to have been discontinued.

Oh, but you can bet your bottom dollar there are still something like 20:1 ratio of dark-market bets synthetic collateral against these shares further underpinning valuations.

Legitimately fear that this will make the ‘08 meltdown look quaint in comparison, as the fiscal stress will not be limited to shares but impact loads of financial instruments (home and car loans, retirement accounts etc.).

Food deserts are such a weird concept to me; Australia has about the same land-size as the continental US and only ~8% of the population. Yet even for all their perceived faults, our two biggest supermarket chains are able to deliver fresh produce to pretty much all but the most remote communities.

Meanwhile, sections of major US cities are somehow lacking access to fresh produce?! 🤯

Legitimately could be underestimating it, honestly… after all, everything is bigger in Texas!

I can understand a banking app such as Chime* wanting to obfuscate whatever bugs or potential exploits they’ve come across and patched - to prevent users on older versions from being targeted; but the rest of those examples are utterly bullshit.

I put forward Duolingo as another egregious example of this bullshit:

Perspective; the 2x2 is closer to you than the 2x4.

I only keep the boxes for things I intend to eventually resell, or are valuable enough that I would want to repackage it in the event of a warranty return.

Everything else is fair game for the recycle bin. We have limited space in the garage, can’t take it all up with useless crap!

Which JRPGs have you tried so far? The community might be able to help guide you towards a better entry point, if they can figure out what titles you bounced off from.

It’s literally sad that the only hope for EA to become less scummy as a privately held company, than it was as a publicly traded company, is for the Saudi Arabian regime to proactively use them to win over gamers through the digital equivalent of ‘sports-washing’.

It’s depressing to think that we are at a point where EA could be considered the lesser evil in comparison.

Does it ever make you think that when her parents were having sex that one fateful night, they would later be able to look back upon it and say that they were making Whoopi?

The maximum I’ve ever consumed was ~1,200mg (1.2g) of caffeine over a ~16 hour timeframe.

I did not feel OK afterwards; reading your comment just started giving me heart palpitations… 😅

Again, I think it’s mostly because it’s iOS - but Brave seems to be the only browser that allows both Picture-in-Picture and background play while also blocking ads.

Both Safari and Firefox display ads, and struggle with PiP.