I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

"I despise your wretched little games" perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy

They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!

Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.

If you use Firefox this extension is god send :D

Signal boost.

I love Firefox, and not just for fixing searches on YouTube. Highly recommended.

But I will warn you that YouTube deliberately slows down videos on Firefox, because they can just not play fair.

Man Netflix is really taking the chance pun fully intended to take the Mickey out of Disney with their absolute fumble with Nimona

First they blast out of the gates as a Beloved movie everybody loved it especially the lgbtq community

And then adding insult to injury on Disney's part everybody knows that it's the movie that they passed up on so everybody begins laughing at them fast forward to February 2024 and Nimona comes once back for another punch by becoming an Oscar nominated film

Then Netflix comes in and uploads the entire thing onto their YouTube page as a final fuck you blow,

The pettiness is on Nimonas level and I love it

If you have not watched Nimona yet, now is the time!

context (via @mellorocket)

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

Ok, so this actually made me cry because this is EXACTLY what Jim Henson would want from those characters in such a scenario. It's so very reminiscent of the episode of Sesame Street that deals with the passing of Mr. Hooper.

He has also gone to multiple interviews about this

Most of the stuff in this one was covered in the earlier reblogs, although Elmo's dad showed up for additional support

My baseless theory is that the "adding salt makes water boil faster" was a clever ploy by Italians to make efficiency-obsessed protestants put the bare minimum of flavour into their cooking.

Wait

People think we put salt in the water to make it boil faster???

Doesn't salt raise the boiling point of water the same way it lowers the freezing point? Shouldn't it boil slower?

Yup! But I was told as a kid that it would make it boil faster, and apparently it's a common myth.

#I think I was told that the salt grains gave the bubbles smth to form on

Okay yeah I was wondering if it was like a nucleation thing (same principle as diet coke and mentos). So I could see it mayne making the boiling process itself start faster once it is up to (slightly higher) temperature? But on the other hand salt famously dissolves, like, on a molecular level. Doesn't it? What is there left over to nucleate on?

Someone who is good at chemistry help, my family is starving (because I haven't started the pasta yet)

Here's what I found, from someone who is better at chemistry than me

To summarize: salt can change boiling temperature, but the amount of salt added to pasta water won't change it significantly. The salt is just there to add flavor!

Sorry, I'm busy having a tea party with rocks and other inanimate objects in order to demonstrate my crushing loneliness and declining sanity

I don't remember the specific episode, but here's the clip!

Here's the My Little Pony bit too, for anyone curious

Sorry, I'm busy having a tea party with rocks and other inanimate objects in order to demonstrate my crushing loneliness and declining sanity

I don't remember the specific episode, but here's the clip!

Miles what the-

WHAT THE HELL KINDA WORDING IS THAT?

⚔️The Final Battle⚔️

Sonic The Hedgehog

The little swedish girl who found a 1,000 year old sword

What other reasons do we need, really?