hydroptic

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 42 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Literally the same thing

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 60 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Not people, conservatives

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Yes, blame the victims, that always works well.

Microtransactions exploit the fact that some people have addictive tendencies. You won't "fix" that by making fun of those people.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tech bros in general seem to lean right for some reason

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Ah well that's certainly fair enough, I had no idea it's a Google-encumbered format.

Not sure I've ever "voluntarily" converted something to webp. Many Lemmy instances' pict-rs setups seem to use it, my home instance sopuli.xyz obviously being one of them, which I guess is a sort of a funny choice considering

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Why do so many folks dislike webp? I really have no strong feelings towards it one way or the other

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Which, I guess, is part of the problem

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly so!

While I'll definitely do what I can to try and influence the trajectory we're on I'm just one person with very little power, and I'm not exactly optimistic about how things are going and figure that at some point something like this meme will be the best I can do

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Most pleasant gamer

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's the step between primary and secondary school that a lot of countries have, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_school

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Yeah it was a middle school thing in Finland too, at least in the 90's.

I did an exchange year in the US in my 2nd high school year, and I was honestly a bit surprised at how… well, simple it all was. I was a senior in the US and I'd learned just about everything they taught that wasn't specific to the US or the English language (and even some of those…) either in my 1st year in high school or in middle school.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah it's obviously a shit idea, but that generally doesn't stop executives when they think there's money to be made – considering how eg. YouTube's trying to stop you from blocking ads and will apparently start showing ads when videos are paused, requiring attention seems like a logical next step to drive that CPM up to fund the CEO's new yacht

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