MystikIncarnate

In this example image, those be some "earth" colors. Used to be a big thing. Lots of dark green, dark yellows, oranges and browns.

And they liked that.

It's a whole vibe. I don't know who vibes with that, but it definitely has a vibe.

I'm half on one side, half on the other.

The line I draw is between safety and convenience. On the safety side, I want things to be very manual. I don't want some app or external system managing whether or not the lights stay on, or whatever, on the convenience side, I 1000% want a way to manage things like the lighting from an app.

So anywhere that safety is a concern, like the kitchen, bathroom, a handful of other places.... There's zero "smart" anything. Everywhere else, yeah, I can turn off my lights from an app.

When I'm in my office/living room, where safety isn't really a concern, I don't have to get up to turn on the lights, I can yell at my Google home to do it for me, or use an app. If I want the lights to be some shade of turquoise, I use the app....

In the kitchen, as an example, no such control exists. You have to push the light switch, and you get basic bitch white light. You don't get an option. You want the light off? Take your fingers and do the thing that makes the light switch go click and turn off the lights.

The decision to make anything smart relies on whether or not I'm going to be in danger if the lights go out and there's no way to turn them on again because the Internet is down.

We need a few more Luigi's in the world.

Figures.

I'm a cis male and I have so little interest in my looks that the only looks related thing that I even think about, is my weight, mainly because I don't want to be unhealthy. If I'm "overweight" or "obese" and healthy, I couldn't give a fuck about being whatever weight I am. I just know that being overweight is frequently a sign of being unhealthy, or can cause health complications like T2 diabetes.

I typically wear black 90% of the time or more, because I don't have to think about matching colors or standing out or being stylish or whatever.

For fashion, all black, uninteresting clothes, are generally neither hated, nor loved by people. It's very meh, bland, uninteresting, not notable, and generally very meh. I'm good with that. I may never be "en vogue" or whatever the fuck, but I'll never have someone looking at me like "you're wearing that shirt with those pants?" They're all black. I'm wearing black jeans with a black T-shirt.

Yes, we are pack mules.

I just want to point out that they are, including and especially the current pos, I mean Pota, business people, and businesses are, with one exception, authoritarian in nature. The exception? A co-op.

Orders are barked from the top, and that shit rolls down hill until it lands on someone with the skills necessary to execute on those orders.

Now take that, and build an entire political party on it, and for the likes and subscribes, throw in a religious element because the religious books can be "interpreted" whatever way we want to justify whatever we want to do, and that will garner some extra votes.

Yay!

I don't have the funding to do such an examination.

Can we get a grant for this?

Assault with a deadly weapon. The driver should get charged.

I'll put this up front, just to make it clear: I'm not going to sit here and say that advertiser's should hold any power over what we say or how we say it. In general, modern advertising is a cesspool of shit.

With that said, advertiser's have one main goal, to reach their target audience, and endear them to your product so they go out and buy it. If you're advertising on a platform like YouTube, there's going to be a nontrivial amount of pretty much every demographic, which is uncomfortable with such difficult topics or the words associated to them.

So I don't think it's surprising that they wouldn't want to advertise to their demo along side content that would upset or otherwise make their demo uncomfortable.

Building on this point, advertiser's are just reacting to a very real issue that some have with some words and terms. They might be upset or triggered or otherwise made uncomfortable/unhappy by hearing some things being said; I think it's respectful to those who would be triggered by other terms for "unalive"

Understanding what "an hero" implies requires a measure of understanding that you generally wouldn't have unless you used 4 chan, or one of the platforms where 4 chan folks hung out....

"Unalive" requires no prior explanation or context, which makes it far more accessible. It's intuitive, the same way "unpack" is the opposite of "pack" (and dozens of other examples). So the prerequisites are basically baked into the English language.

Because of this, I'm entirely unsurprised at the change in wording.

Interesting take.

Especially considering internal combustion engines are most efficient at high gear, moving at a steady pace on a freeway.

I gave my opinion, you gave yours. It would seem that my opinion and your opinion are both different and to some extent, incompatible.

It's interesting, isn't it? In any case, I respect your opinion, even if I don't share it, and I hope you have an excellent day.