A blog about love, loss, and anxiety.... no but really, just the ramblings of your average, everyday Joe (Jo?) Schmoe. This will be in parts, about comics, cartoons, anime, movies, tv shows, life matters, general opinions, and just my daily going ons.
So we’ve been having a bit of a debate in the office because we wanted to do the headline “Local man gives up sugar for 12 minutes” but then overdoing the “local man” trope is a bit male-centric, so we considered “Local woman” but then that sounds like we’re typecasting women so that wasn’t great either, but I think we’ve finally found a worthy compromise:
Wait, why can’t you do fireworks on the moon? There are plenty of flammables that carry their own oxidizers. That’s how we got people OFF the moon in the first place*. Regular ones wouldn’t work, but there are certainly ways to make it happen!
*I mean, it was a combination of hydrazine and an oxidizer, the point is that you don’t need to rely on atmospheric O2 for combustion.
you set them off on the moon and those suckers just keep going up
tumblr, please stop giving me badges for not having a life outside of scrolling endlessly through memes and gay stuff… you’re making me wanna drag myself outside and shrivel up in the sun, like a fungus
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.
