Complete side note, I saw your pfp and checked your profile to confirm my suspicions. Thank you for your work on OpenRGB! It's been a great tool for managing the LEDs on my computer.

If you look at the whole coin (in the original image without the red circle) and trace the text, it looks fairly uniform except for the empty space under the hammer's handle. It's a rather unseemly gap that could have been made more aesthetically pleasing with better design.

I think they'll get away with it because they're deliberately marketing it the way so many similar movies are managed: formulaically for kids, but with some actors and writing meant to give 'the adults' something to watch too. Unfortunately, 'the adults' are almost always assumed to have only a passing familiarity with the subject material, and I have a feeling they're going to write the 'for the adults in the room' jokes with that assumption in mind.

It feels like it's being written on an outdated manual, ignoring the fact that there's a very sizable core audience of 20 and 30-somethings they could tap into. My guess is that everything they tried only tested well with children in focus groups, since apparently they were dead-set on a live-action format from the very beginning. I hate to be so cynical, but it's possible they decided to go all-in on kids because they can hit the appeal without worrying as much on the production standards.

So glad we let the leader of that country into the US Congress, let him speak his fascist diatribe, and leave freely. That opportunity should have been used to turn him in to the ICC, but instead we see whinging civility politics over the protests held just outside.

I mean, even if they're broadly unenforceable, companies include them anyways as a means of intimidation. This FTC decision basically puts up a giant neon sign telling everyone "yeah this isn't legal" which makes it pretty cut and dry. Big companies thrive on ambiguity because that's where an expensive lawyer comes in to argue the case whichever way; they will have a much harder time doing that now.

idk that sounds like a pretty mansionless thing to say /s

Except for phantoms, which you can't turn off on Bedrock without bricking achievements

I'm inclined to believe it's one of those things that, once it enters the recommendation sphere on your account, it's really hard to get it to go away without manually removing profiling info via Google account settings. I just remembered now, at one point he did run a personal experiment to try and see how extreme the content would get if he let it play after it started showing up. After getting kind of disturbed with how bad it got, and bored of laughing at it for amusement, he tried training the algorithm to only show him cat videos and kind of settled on where it currently is. I'm guessing his account has a lot of those older associations still tied, and the algorithm tries to rekindle them from time to time.

I had my suspicions that the issues I've been running into are mostly because of the worsening botting/scraping situation, and in part due to the general very slight preferential treatment Chromium browsers get on the wider Internet, where anything weird coming from Firefox automatically looks more suspicious because it's an underrepresented browser already.

I typically just look up "Firefox Hardening Guide" and follow what looks like the best of the first few results every time I do a fresh install. Because of that, I don't know exactly which guide I followed last, but this one echoes a lot of the steps I remember taking. I've since turned webRTC back on because it kind of broke discord(... I know, I know, discord is terrible for privacy but it's where all my peeps are at!) Didn't tweak everything outlined in guides such as the one linked, but pretty much whenever there was privacy to be gained seemingly without significant website breakage, I'd toggle it.

The user agent thing was bizarre, especially since it was also on Minecraft.net! I swapped to a generic Chrome on Windows agent and it instantly started working again and let me use the site as normal again. That said the user agent thing doesn't always work... But the fact that it does sometimes may be a clue to why websites seem to hate my configuration.

Do we really though? Don't get me wrong it's some of the most entertaining content I've seen on the Internet but I think it brings more harm than good on the whole, especially with the fervor around GME that spun off into being downright delusional. I'd prefer if we don't end up bringing that over here tbh.

I think the 'old' wsb even would be sort of borderline with the egging on and memefication of gambling one's life savings on weeklies

I try to keep track of ones that can't be turned off so I know to never visit that gas station ever again

Uh I think you might be off by a few orders of magnitude, I'm pretty sure that, of the roughly 360 million people in the US, 300+ of them do not live in either AL or MS