I bought a lifetime pass for 100 bucks about 10 years ago, and have had 10 years of not having to give a shit about these announcements. I’ve saved well over 100 bucks on streaming services in that time. Worth it 1000%.

Best way to support creators is the same way as with bands - buy their merch!

YouTube uses a pretty wide variety of signals from across your Google account, including the age of your account, the types of searches you’re making, the types of videos you’re watching, and which apps you’ve downloaded, to make this estimation.

Account age is one factor that will be considered. Who’s to say their AI won’t screw up weights for the other factors and decide that someone is a child because they primarily let their kids use their account (bad practice, but not unheard of from stressed parents)? What happens when you aren’t a youtuber with an audience that can get the attention of actual human beings?

Google has already made AI-related errors with moderating youtube. I will trust what they say after it’s been proven.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/youtube-denies-ai-was-involved-with-odd-removals-of-tech-tutorials/

I just don’t believe them. They will find a way to screw it up with AI, the same way they’ve screwed up youtube moderation.

My account is old enough to drink in most of the world. They better not try and age verify me lol.

something something year of the linux destkop

Fry: Mister Nimoy, I came as soon as I heard what happened centuries ago. I can’t believe your show was banned.

Leonard Nimoy: I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

Fry: You know. 1966? 79 episodes, about 30 good ones.

i just looked this up, lmao is this seriously a movie adaptation of rock 'em sock 'em robots??? has hollywood no shame?

lol yeah they said the robots will need to train for a while before they can do certain tasks, or do them well. “the next few years isn’t about owning a super useful robot, it’s about raising one.” our little robot children will eventually grow up and overthrow us, really warms the cockles.

That’s definitely less than ideal.

I’m not trying to support AI but I’m pretty sure the water that is “lost” to data centers is due to evaporation, which would return it to the water cycle. I think the rest of the water use is “closed loop”, so minimal losses.

Copilot.

They had these at the Harris Teeter when I used to live near D.C. The wheels would also lock if you went outside the perimeter they had marked out.

That’s… not how it works. A law firm rep (usually) just has to connect to the swarm and see what IPs are there. It matters not if you share, being in the swarm is enough for them to send your ISP a notice of infringement. So as others said, use protection.

The chronic sleep deprivation certainly doesn’t help either.

Batman will never laugh and Joker will never stop trying to get a laugh from him.

Thanks, now I can’t stop imagining Batman as a Greek myth lol.

Oh now THAT is interesting, I played male V then female V but they were so far apart time-wise that I honestly didn’t even think about how his dialogue may have changed.

Oh man yeah, I didn’t even bother playing the male protag since I heard Kassandra was the canonical or intended choice. Then I heard Alex or whoever and was so glad I didn’t have to listen much longer.

Another one that irks me for some reason is that a LOT of games get the MOST boring, cookie-cutter action hero voice actor for the dude. I just can’t get invested when “me” in the game sounds so unenthusiastic. I tend to pick the female character/voice option just bc they seem to put more effort into it. See: CP2077, most bioware games.

Well mine were already wall mounted lol but you can just do like jaybone said and use wire to make it as far from the wall as you want. I just used some leftover speaker wire and some eyelets, but you can buy purpose made “picture hanging wire” that is good for 20-30 pounds or so if you want to be extra sure.