I gave up caring years ago when I realized it was way too late to undo it all. If Google really cares that I’m a gamer then oh well, at least my ad blockers work just fine and I use Firefox so that’s good enough.

Well it’s your birthday so I wanted to make sure I did something you could write a gloomy poem about.

Watermark away dude. Nobody wants your picture; not the abomination in the middle, the Eldridge lemon on the right, or that disturbingly excited man with the penis fingers.

I always find it weird when countries use animals that are not native to their country. Although in Scotland I’m pretty sure that unicorns actually exist somewhere. Or at least, they do if you drink enough.

I thought wish.com turned into that Temu cheap Chinese crap store I keep continuously seeing ads for.

OP this is clearly a cyborg. Unless it’s undead, in which case it might count as a cyborg zombie, Golem, or pure construct. Hard to tell, there seems to be some scarring on top of its snout.

If it’s a mobile problem, get Newpipe. It’s not on the App Store, you have to go on the website to get it, but it absolutely is worthwhile. Firefox and you block still works just fine though on desktop.

Most limbs have one upper bone and two lower bones (not counting wrist/digit bones) - so just wtf is going on here?

Which SCP did they say this was again?

Why is her arm so disproportionately long?

Touched by his noodley appendage.

Wow, that’s too bad. Anyway, who wants some pizza?

This is some nightmare fuel right here. What the hell is that monkey thing right above orange shirt kid? And who the hell is letting them play on the tracks?

Unfortunately I don’t know if any way to turn a screen into a mirror.

This is where I learned the word tankies. It sounds like British slang honestly.

No surprise. After a surge of reactionary, or curiosity, based signups, some will inevitably loose interest. In particular, the ‘bottom 10%’ of users, who weren’t/wouldn’t contribute anything of substance anyway, or possibly were annoyed by some feature or another that was different than Reddit. I similarly don’t care that more people haven’t moved from Reddit to Lemmy, as the majority who haven’t would likely make the place worse. When everyone can interact with something with even the most meager barriers to entry removed, the quality always declines.

Good. These people paid their nickel and took their chances. It’s not anyone else’s fault that they made a stupid bet. It’s no different than those whiners suing over their stupid NFTs being bad investments.

Unfortunately the government has all the tanks. And historically people will tolerate nearly anything short of death - often via food scarcity - before they actually put their own necks on the line.

They were stupid to give the developers an out. It’s not hard to do some math and figure out what it would take to recoup the penalty in rent or sales compared to the much lower revenue stream of affordable housing.

Now the fine is just part of the cost of doing business. They’ll either eat the fine, or more likely spread it out across whatever they were gonna charge for whatever they’re building instead of the affordable housing.

You can’t give greedy assholes an inch, or they’ll take a mile and then bill you for it.

It doesn’t need to be. It just needs to be better than Reddit, which it is. That’s enough to make me happy.