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  • I did that for a while, and I’ll be exaggerating my uselessness but here goes.

    “No, that can’t be him. See, the man who did the robbery was wearing a pair of pantyhose on his face. This guy has no such article of clothing on his face. His friend had on a ski mask, I don’t see a ski mask on this man’s face. Yeah, they’re wearing the same shoes but what about the face coverings, hmmmmm?”


  • I’ve been dealing with this forever.

    Some issues I have that I only deal with when I’m not signed in without an adblocker:

    If I try to skip back to a spot in a video, I get the loading circle and sometimes it doesn’t come back until I refresh the page. I have to make a mental note of the time and do that pretty often.

    In safari and Firefox I will get a black box for about 40 seconds, no play button, and sometimes I have to refresh the page a few times just to get it to work at all.

    Comments will not load sometimes until I refresh the page, sometimes more than once.

    The video will sometimes stop and start “loading” while I’m watching it. The solution is always a page refresh or two.

    Signed in with an adblocker, the problems drop by about 50% (pulled that number out of my ass, but I’d be willing to bet it’s close). Signed in with no adblocker on Firefox or Safari and the issues become significantly less noticeable, with exceptions from time to time. Signed in with no adblocker on chrome or edge, I experience none of this.

    I believe they purposely throttle it on non chromium browsers too.

    Sorry if this comment is jumbled. Woke up in the middle of the night with a stomach ache, got bored waiting for it to pass, so now I’m here and barely conscious.


  • How would a civil war even play out nowadays?

    I imagine the United States fracturing into multiple independent states that form alliances with each other in some way. Will there be independent cities, landlocked, surrounded by enemies? Will forces move in to occupy and conquer lands up to and around cities? How many states will survive to have actual statehood?

    “We traveled into the Carolina empire into an area once known as Southwest Virginia. Fighting continued for months, but we couldn’t make progress. The locals know these mountains better than we ever could, even with our tech, they were killing us with pellet guns and improvised explosives called, “yee haws”. So we made our way into Georgabamasippi to hide among the Cousins and regroup. I’m keeping hope alive that the United States of California will make its way east, but even the word California can get you killed in these parts. I know you’ll probably never get this message, but it’s set to send as soon as I get signal, if I ever get signal. I love you, my darling. -1337NUTZ69420”

    I hope I never have to live through anything like that, but I’d love to play the video game or watch the series of movies. :p


  • This. As a hillbilly with no access to books growing up, with my education practically stopping at the 4th grade and no stores in sight to purchase books from, I would have never had access to the things I read without piracy.

    I half believe that’s why it’s an issue in the first place.

    I started my reading adventure at 640x480 on windows 98.







  • theangryseal@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldFacts
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    It’s just like anything else honestly.

    I have a cousin with a sometimes stiff button for a penis a he has never dated below a 10.

    His wife is gorgeous and his kids are beautiful. Been married almost 20 years and had multiple flings before that, as well as girls going batshit insane over him all his life despite an entire small town seeing his shorts come off at the local pool.

    I told the guys on the Reddit small wiener community about this ages ago and they told me to go to hell and that life was miserable and I didn’t understand and was making it up. Well, I might not understand personally, but I’m definitely not making it up.

    Women don’t give a damn, not really. Your bros might give you shit, but most women don’t care.

    Some do. Some don’t like guys who eat Cheetos and want a dude who eats healthy and works out. Oh well. She ain’t the one.

    Don’t stress.

    You know what made life so easy with the women for my cousin? You can see his confidence a mile away. He’s brilliant and he knows it. So are you. Know it.


  • theangryseal@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldNO DOGS IN HOUSE
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    I wish I hadn’t to be honest with you. I wish I could have carried on relating to my family, ignorant of the problems of this world.

    I miss believing in ghosts. I miss the comfort I got praying as I walked through a dark room. I miss the live music at church a few times a week, the big tent revivals, believing I was seeing actual miracles when faith healers called someone up.

    I miss that short window in life when the only things that I knew related directly to me and my community.

    I don’t miss any of it enough to actually, honestly go back even if I could, but damn.

    I’m just worked up because a stray cat got hit by a car. There’s something wrong with me, I swear haha. Sorry for this.