• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    Not even the wackiest scenario he’s done.

    Bro legit took this one incredibly seriously and talked about the consequences of having to explain sudden freak accident deaths to pre-schoolers and how conspiracy theories would proliferate about Reagan being responsible because supposedly he had pushed for the launch to stay on schedule even when issues came up because the plan was for him to make s phone call to the crew of the ship from the SotU address that year.

    Basically Reagan would go down in pop culture canon as being the man who murdered big bird, and whatever consequences that sprung from that would be the biggest shift vs present timeline instead of the obvious fact that big bird would be canonically dead since all the normal viewers would have seen him go up in a fireball and die.

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    I’m so happy to be out of the dating phase of my life. I wouldn’t stand a chance with my tinfoil hat settings like deactivated recommendations, ad- and js-blocking and auto-deleting all cookies when closing a tab.

    • @sparkle@lemm.ee
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      What do you mean women don’t like a FOSS privacy-oriented user experience? Don’t they like going through 500 pages of documentation when Gentoo breaks only to realize all along that the problem was fixed by turning the computer off and on again?

      What do you mean men don’t like that either?? What kind of place is this?!

    • @Emerald@lemmy.world
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      auto-deleting all cookies when closing a tab.

      You know, I would never use auto-delete cookies because I want to stay logged into sites. However I do wish there was an extension or something that would delete all cookies except for manually whitelisted sites. Then random news websites wouldn’t be able to easily track all my visits, but I could stay logged into sites.

      • @Kiuyn@lemmy.ml
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        What you want is a feature that all Firefox based browser have. I am not sure about chromium based but ik that brave also have it.

      • povario
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        210 months ago

        On Librewolf the default is all cookies get cleared. When you go to a site you want to save cookies for, you can easily add it to the whitelist by clicking the lock icon in the URL bar and toggling on the “Keep cookies” option.

    • @ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      It turns out it’s harder to meet a privacy-conscious partner but they really do exist in large numbers. Back in my day the dating scene for this type was the weed dealer’s house/apartment, but now that it’s legal I don’t know what the replacement is. Probably ren fairs or lighter hobbies like kite flying meetups lol.

    • SSTF
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      Why deactivate recommendations instead of being logged into YouTube using an email that exists only for the YT account?

    • Wugmeister
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      The biggest thing is that all the Muppets on Sesame Street canonically exist in the same world as us at the same speed as us. One week for us is one week for them. If Big Bird died in real life, he would also die in the show. Which would be a problem, since at the time he was the de facto audience insert and was as popular as Elmo is now. It would also definitely cause tone issues which patents might not like. Imagine if Elmo died and Big Bird had to try to explain to Zoe that her best friend wasnt coming back. Or imagine her bringing Rocco to the funeral.

  • @ATDA@lemmy.world
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    You’re correct. Judging people based on an algorithm your have no way of knowing is indeed a red flag ma’am.

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      I think if I was a woman and I saw that a potential mate’s recommended was full of *ndrew t*int videos or similar, I would take it exactly as that: a red flag. Not an immediate condemnation but a sign that something MIGHT be wrong. It could be that they’re watching the videos with a critical mindset, or the algorithm is just doing some wonky shit, but I would probe further just to make sure that they aren’t a raging misogynist

      • @ATDA@lemmy.world
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        Yeah I’ll eat crow on that. Tate is in my thumbnails because I’m probably just a little too deep into politics. Maybe not a red flag as much as a bore flag.

  • @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    I actually have YouTube history turned off and rarely if ever watch something that I’m not subscribed to, namely, a maths nerd, two tech channels, some musical people and the guy who makes sausages.

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    Pseudo-Spirituality is a good thing to look out for

    The amount of guys who think the seventh principle of Hermeticism is a reason to be a sexist dick…

    Edit: For the record, it’s gender. The idea that Gender must be kept in balance… I’ve actually seen incels say that they don’t get laid because they let too much “Feminine energy” into their lives, and they need to “Man up” and “Reject these new fangled woke ideals”

    The Seventh Principle is keeping Gender in balance WITHIN YOURSELF, embracing both your masculine and feminine traits. As an occultist it just pisses me off when I see fucking these pseudo-spiritual dickbags qouting the Seventh Principle to do the OPPOSITE and just double down on being toxic edgelords.

    It’s almost worse then the white girls who claim to be an expert on life after death because they had glow-in-the-dark star stickers on their ceiling as a kid.

  • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    It’s not. I spend too much time vetting and blocking right wing channels despite never watching any while logged in.

    • trainsaresexy
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      I usually binge a specific channel in a new subject then youtube blasts me with whatever they think will engage me the most and it’s always the trashiest content. Big red arrows, all caps, surprised faces, misleading thumbnails.

      • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        I once left a live stream open when I went to bed and the next day, I had train videos on my recommendations. They had raided into a train live stream.

    • Natanael
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      I have watch history turned off precisely to avoid getting personal recommendations because they have always sucked for me