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Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

juststarsandthemoon

Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data

lewstonewar

Oh, they all are stealing your data....except beloved AO3.

As much as I love Dropout's Game Changer, "Samalongadingdong" felt very strongly like a series finale.

"Don't Wake Standards and Practices" vibe felt so different and is full of so much cringe in the first minutes I noped out quickly.

This is the first episode I went in fully blind and I think I can't handle it. I maybe have to wait for the best bits via short form videos to come out

Or Maybe I can't rawdog it. I started my subscription in the winter and Dropout shows were my go-to watch while crocheting.

#dropouttv #game changer

an-ruraiocht

which of these classical texts have you read?

the iliad, the odyssey, and the aeneid

the iliad and the odyssey, not the aeneid

the iliad only

the odyssey only

the aeneid only

the aeneid and the iliad, not the odyssey

the aeneid and the odyssey, not the iliad

I have read none of these

Voting ended onJul 22

"what if I've read part of it" if it's a large enough part that you would consider yourself to Have Read It in general contexts, then it counts. if it's not, then it doesn't. only you can be the judge of that, but I'm not giving you a nuance button.

any translations count, but abridged retellings don't

obviously, there are lots of other classical texts out there. you might have read none of these and be an expert on greek tragedy. I'm not judging your classical knowledge so you don't need to tell me all that. I'm just curious about combos of these specific texts and their popularity, bc a post i just saw got me thinking about it

jacopo-belbo

It is not the fuck possible to be an expert on Greek tragedy and not have read Homer you dilettante.

#I was the worst english major ever #I never read anything I was assigned #I as assigned aeneid and odyssey #so I participated in class discussion and listened to lectures about them #actually read a word? no #would you believe I graduated with a 3.6

figglypuff

necrolentil

Goddamit i hate this fucking post. I hate it because obviously if “twelve” followed the same pattern as the other teen numbers it wouldn’t be “twoteen” it would be “seconteen”. Think about it. It’s not “threeteen” it’s “thirteen” as in “third”. It’s not “fiveteen” it’s “fifteen” as in fifth. So with that in mind, you count “first, second, third, fourth, fifth,” and so on, so eleven would be “firsteen” and twelve would be “secondteen” or “seconteen”. “Firsteen, seconteen, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen….” It just drives me absolutely mad everytime i see this post that this obvious pattern was overlooked and i cant hold in my rage anymore.

improper-integral

#zwolf

spin-the-wheel-polls

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

NO!!!!!!!

Voting ended onJul 21

#giant scissors #depending on how big I will likely use it as a blunt object in most situations

miggylol

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onJul 14

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

#Castiel can protect me from Cristina Yang surely.

What's the deal with calling every nose-less alien Squidward when Squidward objectively has a rather large nose?

#Squidward #Avengers: Infinity War #Supergirl

apolladay

What category is your last name?

Son of some guy ("Johnson", "O'Brien", etc)

Job ("Smith", "Miller", etc)

Place/town ("Hill", "del Valle", etc)

Nickname/attribute ("Short", "Goodman", etc)

Hyphenated/multiple of the above

Other (describe in the tags!)

Unsure/results

Voting ended onJul 6

#translates to stonefield

dailymarvelstudios

The Marvels (2023), dir. Nia DaCosta

lewstonewar

I think people (the men) were so up in thier feelings about a superhero movie being women-centric and fans and journalists being so busy addressing that. That the plot point about a society so dependent on AI it collapsed in mere decade when it was taken away just drifted by unremarked on.

#the marvels #Ai dependence

justalurkr

"She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche"

So, that's the sentence at the heart of a pearl-clutching TikTok discourse on reading comprehension and basic literacy that has been spreading to other social media platforms. The basic criticisms seem to be that high school students on the cusp of graduation:

Can't pronounce the two French loan words

Can't pronounce "extraordinary"

Can't make sense of the sentence

Comment sections seem divided over whether these kids are ignorant or stupid and also whether any "normal" person would be able to parse that sentence, because it's awkwardly worded.

At this point, picture me doing a Stare from The Office.

Please tell me I'm not the only person to notice that the entire sentence is a pun?

Would you like to know more?

Yes, lurkr; please make your case

Nah, I see it

No, this nonsensical discourse has gone on long enough

No, because you're about to be mean to the French

YES because you're about to be mean to the French

I just wanna see how this plays out

Voting ended onJun 17

justalurkr

So, I searched the quote to see who in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby it was about, and... no one. It's about no one in that novel because it's not a quote from Gatsby.

Apparently, the TikTokker made up several sentences for his fellow tech magnet school students to read out for the lulz content, and this was one of them.

My error for not checking before I went tf off, but it's still a decent pun and I'll still do a little essay on it if there's interest.

justalurkr

So, more yeses than noes! Here we go:

The sentence is 12 words long, two words of which are French loan words. French loan words are not pretentious by themselves, but I think we can and will start building a case that they're pretentious af here.

Our first loan word drew a lot of heat for being somehow both rare/unknown and also misused, because "everyone" knows that's not what silhouette (sil-oh-WHET, btw, if anyone was in the same boat as the TikTok vics;) means.

Except it sort of, a little bit is. A silhouette is most commonly understood as a dark outline against a bright light. In fashion, the outline of your look is not the be-all, end-all of design, but it's a big consideration, especially when you get to the little turn on the catwalk level.

In fairly niche discussions of fashion design, it wouldn't be too weird to refer to a model's outfit as their "silhouette." Not especially common, a little awkward here, definitely reaching for sophistication that might not be there, but it could happen.

Then, her silhouette of clothes burst forth into extraordinary, the next word some of the ambushed high schoolers had trouble with. All those syllables! WTF!! Why is this here!!!

Because if her silhouette isn't wowing you, dear reader, let's elevate this b¡tch and her look into the stratosphere with a multisyllabic word bomb straight from the PSAT! Flash! Pow! Fancy! Are you not enter- I mean, impressed?

No? The let's do some of that fancy writing sh¡t and go understated with "somewhat"! That's all learnéd and stuff, right? I'm telling you it's sophisticated, so suddenly stepping down the tone must be.

You're still looking at me funny, so it's time to drag the vowel-crazy Frenach back into this and lob another loan wordbomb with gauche (hard g-long oh-shh, extra silent e because French c'est sexy!) to round out the twelve words of tortured prose, just to make it sophisticated.

OK, maybe a little awkward. Possibly even inept. But that TikTokker definitely swung for the fences of sophistication.

Now, go look up the word "gauche" and tell me you're not looking at a 12-word pun.

Or, I can just tell you that Merriam-Webster defines "gauche" as socially inept, with "awkward" and "tacky" as synonyms, and point out that I've only read and heard it used to denigrate people who were trying to appear wealthier or more sophisticated t han they were and failing badly.

#I don't think you thinking a sentence is gauche and also containing the word gauche makes it pun #it's just hat on a hat

Tickets to the local pride festival is so reasonable this year and the headline acts are Margaret Cho, Sasha Colby and Nina West. Very tempting but outdoors all day in mid July. Ugh.

I have yet to make it to local pride because the local organization is so terrible at communication and marketing. I only found out because I was searching for Death Becomes Her US tour tickets at the same venue.

#happy pride 🌈

urie

did you receive abstinence only education in school? (and please say where your school is located in the tags)

yes

Voting ended onJun 20

#No #Nebraska #I missed the year they did it #I was pulled out for a christian school that was founded for the sole purpose of avoiding “sex ed in public schools”#When I went back to public schools they said f it was just a clinical gender segregated puberty and reproduction lecture

ceslatoil

Back during the time when it was popular to bash Twilight for both legitimate reasons (Edward being borderline abusive to Bella, the whole child grooming plot point in Breaking Dawn, etc.) and not (REAL VAMPIRES DON’T SPARKLE THATS GAY), I saw this meme on Facebook where it was Louis and Lestat from Interview With The Vampire commenting on Edward’s sparkling and making fun of him for being gay. Like… Buddy My Guy. My Fair Dude. My Dear Sweet Homophobic Idiot. Not only are the Vampires in IWTV super duper gay, you’re lying to yourself if you think Lestat wouldn’t slam dunk his entire body into a tub of glitter on any given occasion. You Fool. You Imbecile.

loislanespulitzerprize

@wicked-felina

cumaeansibyl

Lestat: WHY DON’T WE GLITTER I WAS ROBBED

Louis: Does he ask our pity? He can walk in the sunlight, whereas we, foul creatures of darkness as we are, are forever barred from God’s kindly li –

Lestat, upending a pound of iridescent craft glitter on his head: SHUT UP LOUIS

#that is true thing

sconesfortea

RIP Anthony Stewart Head (1954 - 2026)

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech