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My friend works in their engineering department, he lost a ridiculous amount of his close colleagues today and my heart goes out to him.

That said, I’m always blown away by the incredible R&D he’s up to, and the genuine passion for innovation and quality him and his team had. I genuinely think their quality good, even if they frame it as the apple of vaccums while actively pulling shit like this.

That’s the most Lemmy response I’ve ever read, I love it.

I stumbled across this the other week while trying to find the name of the book invisible cities and gave it a watch because the trailer reminded me of Disco Elysium.

Without knowing the original novel, I thought it was really compelling and entertaining, with my only major critique being the pacing of the final episode, but equally 4 episodes is such an easy commitment that I’d absolutely recommend the show if you aren’t in the mood to pick up a book.

Not quite a logo but a symbol, but symbolically rotary phones and floppy discs have become the symbols of calling and saving respectively. There are plenty of other symbols that also draw their symbolism from obselete things.

Oops, thanks.

Also, although I agree with the sentiment, I only need a mattress that’s just good enough to not cause issues, because when I’m asleep, I can’t care about the mattress quality.

Maybe I’m crazy or there’s a cultural difference somewhere here, but if you needed to wear long sleeves then it’s the texture of the material, but surely you’d have a bedsheet over the mattress and not be able to feel it directly?

I often find that if I’m having an issue or want general answers about something, I still stick “reddit” at the end of the search, but I never just open it to browse niche subs even though I am missing the equivalent here.

The thing is, it’s quite easy for a marketing department to measure their success. They release an annoying unskippable YouTube and and change nothing else in their marketing and their profits go up by 1% or whatever. As much as I basically do no shopping where the day to day advertising I see can influence it, that’s a pretty abnormal lifestyle pattern. Plus I’m still susceptible to choosing specific items inside a shop, and I definitely susceptible when I’m looking for specific products and come across secret ads disguised as advice.

It resembles mad cow disease because they’re both prion diseases, which are more or less only spread by consumption of brain.

Some of the other nasty ones that keep my a little freaked out are Chronic wasting disease, aka the zombie deer disease and Fatal Insomnia , which just sounds like something straight from a horror film.

A soon as I started typing I realised it’s probably not too exciting. I think it’s always had that mythic element growing up near it of imagining the amount of work needed for lots of cups of tea to be made at the same time.

There’s a power station in snowdonia, Wales nicknamed Electric Mountain, that just pumps water up the mountain all year round to drop it at optimum times. The cliche examples given are the world cup final half time and after a Dr Who finale. At that point they just drop all the stored water over their turbines to counter the massive surge. I’m sure equivalents of this are common all over the world but it feels so uniquely British.

I do agree, and generally I don’t want everything to be a franchise or a verse. However I feel that a trilogy although generally profit driven can expand a film in a nice way, such as the original star wars or Indiana Jones trilogies.

I have a huge soft spot for the second and third pirates films. I think looking at the first and thinking it could make a great trilogy is totally valid and although they’re definitely much more long winded than the first with less lovable characters, they’re good films and if I ever revisit the first, I generally revisit the second and third too.

I watched the Dungeons and Dragons movie when it came out and really enjoyed it, but it definitely felt like I was watching a marvel movie, albeit a well written one, Pirates may be the last YA action adventure franchise that isn’t just the re-skinned marvel formula, which makes it far more watchable than 80% of the genre since.

Also Pirates 3 is basically the creator of the horrible pressure CGI artists have suffered under for the past 15 years, so take that as you may.

I’m keeping Spotify because I already split a family account (£18.99 per month I think) between 6 people. I pay for a few other subscription services like something for D&D and my phone bill but they are things that I feel I require.

I haven’t paid for any streaming, gaming or other services for at least a year or two. As soon as I started sailing the high seas for specific content not on the big services, I realised that it’s so little extra work for infinite free content.

Funnily enough, my partner and I have been considering picking up a £10 Photoshop subscription that’s currently about, just because she uses an up to date Photoshop at work and swapping between the 2023 and 2020 versions is a small pain.

I’m in the UK and in my mid 20s and I’d say anyone over 30 has learnt to cook at home to save money and 75% of eating out is due to just being out over mealtime or doing something specific like taking someone for dinner.

I’d say I’m not a great cook. I enjoy following recipies and the presentation of food but generally I’d avoid cooking for anyone but my partner and closest friends because I don’t feel good enough to cook for others. When I’m cooking for myself I generally make something quick and easy that would either impress nobody with its 2-3 ingredients or all comes from one packet, but that’s less because I can’t cook at all and more because we culturally don’t care about food enough here and I’m gonna enjoy that pack of instant noodles with old spring onions just as much as a homemade curry because it’s faster, I won’t inevitably get the measurements just a bit wrong and I have a weak British palette.

There are plenty of beaches and people often travel to thembfor the sake of enjoying the beach. The main issue is that for 11-12 months of the year, the water is fucking freezing. If people learn to swim, it’s often in heated swimming pools as kids.

YouTube comments don’t really encourage conversation about the content and are largely used nowadays as a way for people to leave messages for the creators. In addition at one point (possibly still ongoing), the YouTube algorithm really responded well to comment engagement so in videos, creators would encourage commenting alongside liking and subscribing.

I think in combination this led to people commenting on the content they watched, which was largely of creators they have fondness,but having nothing to really say, in addition other like-minded people would open the comments and like the positive one, catapulting them to the top.

It must have been about 5-10 years ago that it was standard practice to block YouTube comments because they were so toxic, so it’s interesting how times change.