seconded, spujb is one of the best of us.
yuri
joined 2 years ago
196 is dead, long live 196
hey i’ve got .world blocked and do not plan to unblock it just because y’all made a hilariously hasty decision. when the man-or-bear thing happened, a frankly stupid amount of folks from there specifically were REALLY VOCAL about their outright misogyny. my experience has been a lot better since.
this was a silly thing to do, and i really don’t see how it aligns with the community’s interests.
i’ve got an ad-blocking DNS on home network and my phone, i use youtube revanced, i’ve even got a fucken apk patcher to strip ad shit out of mobile games. it’s WILD to me how tolerant people are of ads. like anytime someone’s showing me a video on their phone and an ad plays, i have to do a little mental math on whether it’ll be annoying or mutually beneficial to just start playing the video on my phone instead.
and it takes such little effort to get rid of them! i’m constantly offering to teach people how to use patchers or revanced, folks are just like “nah it doesn’t bother me” MAN, HOW? sponsorblock alone is a goddamn godsend, sometimes more than 30% of a video is just ads and self promotion! how does anyone happily throw away their time like that‽
but now you can accommodate one more archer, equivalent exchange!
all hallmarks of REAL and LASTNG economic growth!
seriously tho you reckon we’ll get something silly like one million ruble notes before this is all over?
i have found some delightful vendors on ebay. like specialty tool wholesalers that are actually manufacturing their own tools, novel designs and everything!
i’d highly recommend it for anyone looking to get away from amazon, but do be mindful of sellers using amazon fulfillment. probably you can just check that there aren’t any prominent listings with the exact same product images/description as ebay.
worst case you can always return the item. ebay is pretty darn good about returns and refunds, and i reckon it’d be a bit of a headache for the dropshipper too! hahah
a lot of amazon sellers have listings up on ebay for literally the same prices. when you order it they just send it to you with a gift receipt and amazon does the fulfillment. i assume amazon would also handle refund/replacement with the ebay seller as a middleman. seems sketchy but i reckon it’s actually pretty beneficial to the buyer.
i haven’t used amazon since i tried to cancel prime and was strung along long enough for the site to claim i owed another $100 for a payment cycle that had JUST STARTED. luckily i used a virtual card for amazon, so i was able to just close it and refuse further payments. after that the option to cancel my membership went away entirely until i paid them the “outstanding payment” of $100.
now whenever i log in i IMMEDIATELY start getting notifications from privacy that they’re trying to charge $100 on a defunct card. they’ll do this once a day for a week or so, and then just once a week for another couple months.
the site is basically useless anyway. somehow it’s worse than fucking ETSY as far as sellers that are just dropshipping you shit for a 2 or 3x markup. anytime you find ANYTHING you wanna buy on amazon, go check china before you pull the trigger. odds are you find the same shit with the same shipping time for a fraction of the price on ali or dhgate or some shit. prime hasn’t been worth it for the better part of a decade, and it’s dreadfully apparent when you can find the same shit for sale from the same sellers, and it’s cheaper on the non-prime listing even after shipping.
i’m so consistently bummed out that duncan trussell loves him so much, but i’m pretty sure they were friends a while before he really started down this road.
like fuck, i’ve got some shitty friends. and i would probably also call em out a lot less if they were giving me an enormous fucking platform to just dick around with for funsies.
he’s lowkey on my shitlist until he makes midnight gospel season 2 happen tho. i refuse to believe there isn’t a SINGLE streamer interested. pitch it to chick-fil-a or something, c’mon!
nah his MOST ideologically aligned audience is made up of actual zealots. my dad was literally screaming at me, “he’s got the most popular show in the world! he’s a big deal!” because i said i didn’t think joe was a smart guy the other night.
the context was, of course, vaccine skepticism. he’s really just diet alex jones, but since he’s popular i guess there’s no issue there?
i’m so tired y’all.
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i believe .ml WAS an intended migration point before this was randomly announced. i honestly would’ve been more on board with that! it’s still a bad idea, don’t get it twisted, but at least i might be using the new comm if it had happened that way.