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  • rifugee@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    5 months ago

    He says that she’s alive and well and has been busy devoting her time to Scientology and is definitely not dead or being held captive or anything, so I shouldn’t “worry my pretty head about it, sweet cheeks.” I should note that he was born in the 40’s.



  • rifugee@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    A zebra is closer to the size of a donkey than a horse, and donkeys have about 5 horsepower, so a 200hp car would be about 40zf (zebra force). Also, since horses actually have about 15 horsepower, that same car would be about 13ahp (actual horse power). Llamas are also about the size of a donkey, so probably similar numbers.

    Disclaimer: I’m not a scientist and these numbers came from my ass.



  • Companies wonder why people use adblockers; this is my experience trying to read this article on mobile without an adblocker:

    Picture of the outside of the building.

    Three paragraphs, each composed of a single sentence.

    Ad.

    Two paragraphs, each composed of a single sentence.

    Ad.

    A teaser block trying to get me read another article on their site.

    Ad.

    A stock photo of a public bathroom with mirrors.

    A teaser trying to get me to follow them on Google News.

    A single sentence with eight words.

    Ad.

    Another sentence, which is a quote from a school admin.

    Ad.

    Two paragraphs, each consisting of one sentence each.

    Teaser block trying to get me to read more articles on their site.

    A stock photo of some social media platform logos.

    A trending block with links to more articles on their garbage site.

    Two more paragraphs, each consisting of one sentence each.

    A distracting carrousel of images that are links to more articles on their site.

    Two more paragraphs, one of which actually has two sentences!

    Links to their social media.

    Is that the end of the article? I think so, but I’ve missed things before, so better keep scrolling a bit just in case.

    Related articles section.

    Ad.

    Ad that looks like a link to another article.

    Ad that looks like a link to another article.

    Ad that looks like a link to another article.

    Link to another article.

    Ad.

    Comments section.

    Editors pick section of articles.

    Ad.

    Ad.

    Okay, pretty sure I’ve read the entire article now, but let’s keep scrolling to see how far this bullshit goes.

    Ad that looks like a link to another article.

    Ad that looks like a link to another article.

    Link to another article.

    And then the following pattern SIX times:

    Ad.

    Link to another article.

    Link to another article.

    Link to another article.

    Ad that looks like a link to another article.

    FINALLY a whole bunch of links to other articles, some of which are promoted by Taboola, whatever the fuck that is.

    And the entire time there was a red popup for “breaking news” taking up 1/5 of the screen.

    For those keeping track at home, the article was a total of fourteen sentences, one photo of the school, and two stock photos. And no photo of a bathroom without mirrors.




  • Too many people are too comfortable to ever get off their asses to do anything more than bitch about it online. It’s a very small percentage of people that actually go to rallies and half of those people are middle class white people that have never known real hardship; the kind of people that are surprised when they get pepper sprayed while trying to break into the capitol. There won’t be a civil war, but we’re definitely on the brink of single party rule.

    We’re like a bunch of frogs sitting in water that is being slowly brought to a boil, but except for water it’s fascism and half the country is okay with it because they think they are “saving the children.” The other half think they can stop it. I think that both sides might be delusional.




  • For those that are confused by the name change, Jack is an old nickname for John. It was most popular in the 17th century and has been on the decline since, so I don’t think many people today use it that way anymore. Or any people younger than 70, anyway.

    Of a similar origin, there’s Jim for James, Dick for Richard (giggity), Harry for Henry, and Sally for Sarah, among others. I think some of these are more popular than others, but it seems to me that they are mostly out of use in general, though some of the nicknames live on as normal names.