CumbrianCucumber

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I dunno, it feels pretty deliberately rage-baity, what with demanding a 25% tip when 20% is considered fine anywhere (in the US). If there's one thing an LLM can do, it's ragebait. The use of stars for visual flare but lack of a restaurant logo of any kind is also pretty unnatural. Also it stumbles pretty clumsily between like 3 different points, when normally they'd just make the other points separate notes.

Basically, spying is one of YouTube's most egregious problems, and one of the biggest reasons people like me want valid competition for it, and one of the biggest selling points of smaller competition like Peertube and Glomble. I don't see Bilibili offering that, but just the competition itself might give YouTube the kick up the arse it needs to respect its users.

I'm kidding myself, at this point it feels like YouTube would keep abusing its userbase even if it wasn't profitable, just for the sheer fun of it, but in an ideal world, this would solve a lot of problems.

I've heard of Billibilli. It's great for pirated films and TV shows that you can't get anywhere else.

I don't really trust it to be much better at respecting privacy than YouTube, but at this point, I'd be surprised if it was any worse, and YouTube has been getting worse for lack of competition for over a decade now

Yes and no. You're certainly right, most of Trump's popularity comes from Russian propaganda, and far more institutional issues like underfunded education, the blind eye to the Southern states after the Civil War, leftover Red Scare paranoia, and rampant lobbying.

That being said, using the disease metaphor, I think of Trump as more of a "complication" than a "symptom". Something that's drastically exacerbated a problem that was already there. Every other politician, even ones as corrupt and self-serving and dictatorial as him, all have to play the PR game and dress their rancid fantasies up as something that would benefit the public. Trump meanwhile, can transparently go back on every single promise, back stab his every last ally, out himself as perhaps the most prolific paedophile in human history, and order his fans into a street militia, and somehow, his supporters just accept it as part of his "brand".

The US was probably always going in this direction, but I still think it wouldn't have got here half as fast, maybe not even a third of the speed Trump's been disassembling it without him. I don't really know why Trump's popularity was never affected by his vile actions until this year - they would sink any other public figure. Maybe it's the right wing press playing defense for him at every turn, maybe it was his "joke candidate" status he earned back in 2015, maybe it's his history in the public spotlight. Whatever it is, far right politicians around the world have tried to replicate what Trump has, and they've all failed. Because of that, I still think that the Big Beautiful Obituary will be well worth celebrating!

on Puppetmon Time Stranger · c/digimon · 1 pts · 20d

I had a Puppetmon in Cyber Sleuth! I couldn't manage to get him until the late-game, but it was worth it!

Thanks! I do remember a few visual cues associating the DNA double helix with spiral power, so that would make a lot of sense! As a Dragonball fan, I had to learn the hard way that you'll always enjoy an anime more by focusing on the story and characters over obsessing about the power levels and maths!

I refuse to pump my car tyres from petrol stations anymore because all the ones in my local area have started charging exorbitant prices. It always used to be free with petrol, then a few years ago it became 20p, but now it's randomly shot up to £1.50. WHY??

You can buy devices that pump your car tyres up for you too. They tend not to last very long, so they're not exactly "one time" purchases, but they're far more cost effective than doing it at stations nowadays.!

I kind of get it - Light was definitely getting more insane throughout the show, but even in episode one his first words were muttering about how humanity was lost and the world was rotten to the core. Everything that happened afterwards was simply because of Light getting the ability to act on those thoughts.