Won't hurt me but it's weird watching how long it takes a glass that wasn't rinsed well to dissipate foam. An alarmingly long time when pouring carbonated drinks or something viscous like milk.
Oh, not the total owed, but the actual usage graphs. Yeah I only get an annual email containing a recap pretty much at years end for a few services. Otherwise it's off to the shitty website.
My workplace tried to make me attend a steak dinner after work with my "coworker" who I don't like and some random new shift supervisor in the highest turn over position on site. Predictably he was gone 4 months later. I refused to go. While the food would be compensated, my time wouldn't be and that's the #1 thing of value to me. I don't work for free.
Google doesn't do global roll outs with their updates. The anti adblock stuff especially. They target only some % of randomly selected users to spread confusion online, and I would guess their hope is to frustrate people into disabling ad blockers on Youtube after reading a bunch of misinformation and placebo bad advice when looking for tech support.
One of my BlueSky accounts I use for what you're missing. Follow artist starterpacks to get started faster, the AI and Politics mass block lists too, and avoid Catch Up like the American doomer plague it is. "Show less of this" everything political/not the account's focus in your Discover feed. Block them first when you have the patience to do this tedious task. After awhile all you'll see is artists/indie. Disable risque/adult content default-on blocks as desired.
Is Newgrounds a diminished community? Yes. Is it still active? Also yes. Had a bit of a artist population boost around when the exodus to BlueSky from Xhitter was going on too.
I have Total Aphantasia, and zero sense memory at all. I do have an "inner monologue" of sorts. I can't "hear" it in my head, but I understand all the same. I don't know how to explain with words and I don't know how I work either, really. My outer and inner voice are the same thing to me and I have full control over it., often transitioning back and forth when I'm alone. As in, no racing thoughts. One of the ideas behind meditation where you try to silence your mind? I don't have to try. It's not something that takes effort for me. I bring this up because this is how I'm reading books, with that silent inner voice. One of my friends is like me with Total Aphantasia, but he has no inner monologue either. Which is bonkers to me. I don't get it, neither does he! Haha. Many different kinds of human minds out there, it's not so simple.
Hard to miss what I've never experienced, I still enjoy thinking about these fictional worlds even if I can't conjure up a representation of what is written in my mind.
I read every genre. It's actually specific writing styles I lean towards. If the author is really detailed with describing environment constantly, I appreciate that. I can't really "fill in the blanks" so to speak. I also really like it heavy on the internal monologue side of things with main characters. I think that's why I liked Ender's Game so much when I was a kid.
I do prefer any visual media. I save all my book and research reading for when I'm at work these days, which is a lot of time actually. One of them hurry up and wait jobs. Books are far better when it comes to potentially constant interruptions.
I go see what the fascists are saying directly in their safe spaces once and awhile instead of hearing about it 2nd+ hand. Do not recommend.
To be more specific: The sanitized idea in their non-verbatim words (I think this was in the lead up to the first Trump campaign?) was to see if "leftists" would let them ruin an already long established funny hand gesture to the point anyone who wasn't white nationalist would stop doing it out of fear.
Then alt right grifters picked it up and it kinda worked...if you let them have that win.
Where I live it's frankly too dry for uniform grass lawns and dandelions will completely take over if left alone. I'd be fine with it if I didn't find the green jagged leafed plant and milky red stems so fugly, never mind the nice yellow flower.
I've been overseeding with white clover and native wildflowers since moving in both of which thrive in the spring choking out dandelions naturally. Puts nitrogen back into the soil too unlike grass.
All I do is aerate now.
Better for the bees in two ways. One, I'm not spraying chemicals and two, dandelions are actually pretty shit tier from a bee perspective.
If I wake up in 1875 right where I am and a birch tree hasn't appeared through my chest, then I'm a half hour hike away from Fort Saskatchewan. A North West Mounted Police outpost+jail and they'll speak English I can understand in 1875.
In 1879 they'll hang a whiskey addicted Cree man who killed and ate his six children, his wife, mother, and brother. Swift Runner or Ka-Ki-Si-Kutchin. Got kicked out of the fort (I think he worked there? So he might be around already), and then his own tribe kicked his dysfunctional ass out too before he did this.
From Canada Day I wandered through a few times the new replica Fort the city built and read the history placards. So I'd also know a few of policeman names, some trivia about them, and how some of them would die. Mostly by fighting natives. Most of them were cunts frankly. Yes yes very surprising to nobody.
13 too, I usually go with the Ecco brand. Last forever and the shops usually have a few models in stock that aren't Runners.