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accidentally hit something on the treadmill at my gym and it opened a web browser??

So basically anything with a screen these days is a computer. Your TV? Computer. Phone? Computer. Gas pump? Computer. And a lot of those computers are running a fork of Windows, because Microsoft is very good at building for corporate use. But it's a fork with most of the same features, because MS has no reason to rebuild their entire OS just for your SmartFridge. Instead, it just boots up a barebones Windows fork, and then auto-launches whatever program McDonalds uses for their drive-through menu or whatever. Which means with the right inputs, you can close that program. And open whatever MS has installed by default, like Solitaire, Word, or Edge.

This is generally not relevant to the user, but if you want to do something on a device that it doesn't allow you to do, getting out of the initial program it forces you into is usually step 1.

You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

SELF CARE TIPS 2025

Alex Jones is livestreaming rn and for the first and only time in my life it's appointment viewing. He got evicted from his studio mid-stream and they had to cover for him when he popped up in his "satellite studio" (a room in his house I assume) devoid of the Infowars branding. He's talking about how "tens of millions" of people have watched his final broadcast & you can literally see he has far less than a million viewers in the bottom corner (and this is on Twitter, which inflates views of videos ever since Elon had to convince people anyway gives a shit about Tucker Carlson's livestreams). He's currently whining that they chose not to sell his site back to him at auction, so he could keep doing the crimes that are why he was selling his website.

I didn't see this personally but he's apparently read out the Onion's announcement, which is a fake article by a fake corporation, out loud several times as if it was real. Anyway it should be noted how screwed he is, bc...

...while he can livestream under his own name, they own his warehouses of dubious supplements. He has nothing to sell but t-shirts protesting that his show is going down. Since Infowars was, first and foremost, a lifestyle brand, this leaves him, scientifically speaking, "totally fucked". He doesn't have ads, that's the only way he makes money

He just promised that he will "win the information war" which. You were sued into oblivion for lying about the parents of murdered children & lost your platform so hard you don't even have a studio anymore & your brand was seized by a rival to make fun of you. I didn't think the Infowar was a real thing you could lose, but I'm not sure there's a more definitive way to lose the information war. Anyway he's now ranting about fluoride

I just realized all the cars with Infowars bumperstickers are about to become accidentally hilarious.

My personal conspiracy theory: RFK’s brain worm isn’t dead. It’s piloting him Ratatouille style. It’s been steering him to a government health office for years as part of a grand plan to deregulate food safety so more and more people get parasites and the brain worm reigns supreme over a population that is slowly being eaten away.

Sometimes I remember that "I'm so fucking normal right now" is a line from disco elysium. like that's such a sentence from a tumblr post to me but no. harry du bois said that. out loud. he would do numbers on here

harry dubois does do numbers on here. i see him on my dash like several times a day

This is an incredible story.

A man assassinates a former prime minister and gives his demands to the government who turn around and go “Actually yeah, these are quite a good ideas.”

By far the most successful assassin in history, tbh. It's like if someone bodied Reagan and a month later we got police/drug reforms

ABC having ice cream

[DT MSQ] You ever get so tilted about a character's terrible dress that you take matters into your own hands?

every so often on here some edgelord will be like “oh you can’t order a meal ? Make a phone call ? Write an email ? thats so fucking cringefail hahaha get it together 😆 … im also autistic/disabled so thats not a good enough excuse.” And then it gets a surprising amount of notes from people who are capable of doing these things…. um you are just laughing at and belittling anyone less functional than you or with differing struggles and needs. As if autism isn’t a spectrum disorder and disability itself a much larger spectrum… anyway you can still be ableist if ur autistic btw…

Fundamental life advice: never trust a product from a youtuber/influencer sponsorship

Idk maybe the learning platform ones are the exception but i never looked into them

Adding on to this. Skillshare is hard to cancel. There’s a slight chance this has changed but when I looked into subscribing, there was a lot of people complaining about having to email the company multiple times to cancel.

Since Squarespace is templets, they legally own whatever you make. If you decide to change providers, you can’t take it with you. You’re stuck with them forever or have to rebuild your website from the ground up. You at least own the domain name so there’s that, but for me it’s not worth the work if I have to restart should I ever decide I hate the company.

I want more people to know this because every time I’ve looked into something advertised by youtubers, it’s never been good.

Time to talk about SponsorBlock again.

This is a Firefox extension that automatically skips sponsorship messages in Youtube videos. The fact that these small-time corporations feel the need to make Youtube creators behave like trained animals for a tiny contribution is stupid in the first place.

Favorite part of ffxiv is when Alisae, almost immediately after her introduction, goes "fuck this political bullshit I don't wanna be in A Realm Reborn" and simply leaves the story.

pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it

This scene happens with literally 0 context or build up whatsoever