[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[a-for-effort-f-for-execution]

if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:

browser.ml.enable

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:

sidebar.revamp

unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox

[mckitterick]

and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox

on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup

[mckitterick]

irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2025), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):

browser.ml.enable

browser.ml.chat.enabled

browser.ml.chat.menu

browser.ml.chat.page

browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge

browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge

browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled

browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled

browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

extensions.ml.enabled

browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate

in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing

[b0nkcreat]

the way people used to use tone tags in 2020 makes me laugh in retrospect because in what world would you need to tag “good morning” as nonsexual. hi friend! /gen /pos /srs /nsx /hello /smiling /happy

[b0nkcreat]

something sinister is going down in the nearest beautiful mountain stream

[archaardvarkarchive]

not to be That Person but male-bodied people experience morning wood on the regular so why would this be surprising.

Saying ‘good morning’ to a person is already a bit in the queerplatonic zone (if you said ‘good morning’ to every single person you were ‘merely friends’ with, you’d have like a dozen different threads going on- it denotes a special place in your sphere) and since a lot of people conflate emotional closeness with romance and ergo sex, this makes perfect sense as a clarification

esp if the two people in question were queer, esp bi or pan

[b0nkcreat]

[depsidase]

[pancakepikachu]

“I am a strong, beautiful, independent young woman, and I can do anything I put my mind to,”

I say aloud before going outside and setting up a Halloween yard inflatable of a cat in a ghost costume by myself

[princesconsuela]

[vixvigil]

at least sisyphus only had one never-ending task. i have like 50 and all of them cost money

[badassdemonsword-deactivated202]

His name is Lovely Sweetie

[badassdemonsword-deactivated202]

Lovely Sweetie the puppy before and after standing up

[leninthesixth]

doctors hate her! This woman is experiencing symptoms that might point to a health problem and wants doctors to do something about it

[cipheramnesia]

Doctors hate her! Who is she? Where is she? How did any of us get here? What if the color blue to you isn’t the color blue to me? All this and more isn’t information doctors need, or want, to suggest she just lose weight!

[jager-bruder]

[queen-scribbles]

[stephenroot]

take out a hit on dead person

georgia desecration of a corpse penalty

find a gravesite covington georgia

champagne and chocolates shipping service georgia

[mlobsters]

At 81, she just voted for the first time: ‘Made me feel like I was American’

For Helping Voters Who Can’t Read, She’s Been Criminally Charged — Twice. That Hasn’t Stopped Her.

Olivia Coley-Pearson offered help to voters who struggle to read. For taking on one of America’s oldest forms of voter suppression, she got

[butch-king-frankenstein]

You can tell this is the social anxiety website because of all the people you see act like it's impossible to host hookups if you have roommates

[butch-king-frankenstein]

"how are any of us supposed to have sex in this economy" you tell your roommates you have someone coming over and then they all put their earbuds in for a couple hours

[butch-king-frankenstein]

@northgreatern okay so listen. idk what your living situation is but imagine if you will: you live with roommates. you have a friend who wants to come over and watch TV. you want to have a steady viewing experience that is free from interruptions. so you tell your roomates: "hey I have a friend coming over later to watch TV, try and keep it down if you have to go through the living room while we're watching."

this is like a totally normal interaction to have, right? but the best part is, you can say this for literally any activity and it's fine. even for sex. you can literally just say "hey I'm having a hookup come over later, so take whatever precautions you think are necessary to not hear me fuck." (you might want to say it more delicately than that but that's not important here)

the reason you can do this for sex is because sex is not special, it's literally just another activity that people can do for fun. I sometimes see people posting shit like "if you have sex in your house while other people are there then you are a sex criminal traumatizing your cohabitants by exposing them to sexual activity without their consent" but like, you literally are not doing that. you are just doing an activity with a friend, most likely within the relative privacy of your bedroom, while everyone else in your house does their own thing. I feel like we can agree that if your roommate said to you, "you're not allowed to watch TV in the living room because I don't want to hear any noises produced by your activities", that would be completely insane, so there's no reason that sex should be held to a different standard

relatedly, I'm kind of bothered by your usage of the phrase "just for the sake of your roommates hooking up". sometimes people want to have sex! those of us who do it tend to think it's a lot of fun! living with other people should not (and does not) require you to Simply Forsake The Unnecessary Pleasures Of The Flesh for the (imagined) benefit of those other people!

and speaking of those other people: in what I imagine is the vast majority of situations, all of you pay for the apartment you all live in. that includes the people who want to have sex there! they are also allowed to "just chill in the apartment (they) pay for"!

now, sometimes one person's chilling can conflict with the ways in which another person wants to chill, this is true. but frankly, that's just the reality of living with other people, regardless of your relationship with them. you gotta compromise with each other sometimes. communicate your needs and desires so you can all experience chilling sometimes, instead of living with the impossible expectation that you specifically can chill all the time. it's a necessary skill for group living, which is something people have been doing since long before the invention of paying rent, and will continue to do long after the idea of rent is merely a memory.

hope this helps!

[liquidtoast]

“Overwhelm the vote”. That’s the best I’ve heard.

Election Day is important.

Vote. Call out sick to vote. Use a PTO day. Work extra hours to make up the money ahead of time.

Vote.

If you don’t vote, you can’t complain. You did not even try to make change, you just hoped other people would do it for you.

There are services to help make that happen. Vote.

Also check your registration status often. Make sure you can just show up and vote.

[augustheart]

i'm crying rn.... the fucking Torta.....

[letterstothefutureme]

Every single on of those registrations was a single person deciding to register. When you think you're just "lil ol me" and your voice doesn't matter that much: Remember this. Your actions have impact, your voice and your vote matter.

Get Registered and VOTE

VOTE.ORG

[dduane]

Please get registered and vote.

[thechanelmuse]

I was today years old. That is disgusting.

No Child Left Behind is one of the worst things to ever be incentivized in schools. It was signed into law when I was 14. Reading Rainbow was my show as a kid. LeVar Burton played a big part in why I became an avid reader to date. The joy of it. It's an adventure around the globe and through different time periods without stepping on a plane or time machine.

Children parrot behavior. In grade school, I always wanted to read the same amount of books as my teachers (50 books) and managed to double that each year. Before No Child Left Behind, book fairs and Scholastic catalogs were a serious matter like your grandma's Fingerhut catalogs. Libraries were (and still are) a wonderland.

Reading comprehension and proficiency in schools has been declining for decades. A crisis. The joy of books isn't pushed anymore and I'm always saddened by it. It's one of the reasons why I post my book reviews and recommendations on here, as well as posts from others to encourage reading and (novel) writing. Kids will parrot your behavior while the education system sadly fails to return as that example.

[mysteryteacup]

For those of us who aren't from the states, what - apart from apparently a shitty law - is that?

[kethsposy]

A law passed by Bush that cut funding to public schools whose students didn't improve every year on a set of standardized tests- meaning not that each student was supposed to improve during their time in school, but that this year's first graders had to do better on the tests than last year's first graders, and next year's had to do better still. Obviously this was really difficult over the short term and completely impossible over the long term.

This concentrated schools and other education programs entirely on those tests, especially schools with students who were already struggling, at the cost of art and music programs, home economics and shop type programs, and any in depth exploration of pretty much anything that wasn't on the test, which were pretty narrowly focused. Reading Rainbow was a relaxed encouragement to be imaginative and curious. It didn't teach kids the answers to questions on the test. So it didn't make the cut.

The program also incentivized schools to cut their losses on struggling students, expelling or encouraging them to drop out to bring the test averages up instead of being able to spend the effort to actually help them.

[anyroads]

No Child Left Behind was an absolute disaster for education, poorly hidden behind an insidious name. The real goal of it was not just to defund education (in order to reallocate those funds to appease Republican lobbyists), but to stop teaching critical thinking. Not only did struggling students get left behind, but by prioritizing students who did well on standardized tests, the focus shifted entirely to teaching students memorization without understanding context, and how to guess their best on a test in order to pass. The focus became passing tests, not actual learning. In the process, students were taught that they don't need to understand the material, they just need to know how to follow directions and give the answers deemed correct by the school boards. They were deprived of agency in their own educations.

This widened the gap between public and private school educations significantly, because students in public schools learned mostly how to regurgitate information, while students in private schools learned how to understand it, analyze it, think critically about it, and apply it - in short, if you could afford to go to private school, you still got to have agency over your education. And sure, many public school teachers were dedicated and still taught their students more than the curriculum demanded, but they were under a lot of pressure and scrutiny and their hands were often tied. Many of them couldn't sustain the effort it took (and how little they got paid) and changed careers. Meanwhile basic necessarily skills disappeared when arts and non-academic budgets were slashed into oblivion - you used to be able to learn how to sew, mend, cook, budget, do woodworking, fix a car (hell, build one), paint, draw, do pottery, and so much more in elective classes. What's mostly remained is performing arts programs, which struggle to continue existing, but since you can charge admission to performances they've had a better chance than shop class and home ec.

You have no idea what it's like to have watched all that happen under the Bush administration and now see the second emerging generation of young people who were deprived of the education they deserve and don't understand critical thought or media analysis. Those of us who are old enough to remember the Bush era are frustrated, but not at all surprised to see how reductive and binary fandom discourse is, or that critical media analysis has diminished significantly and turned into fandom discourse instead (ie. that being a child during the "what you feel is more valid than facts" Bush administration has led to the second emerging generation of people who struggle to separate their personal feelings about a piece of media from the idea that fiction is social commentary, who struggle to understand nuance and are more concerned about judging others for their even slightly divergent political views than about what makes for effective activism, or that fandom has become a way for people to judge and condemn others).

You have no idea how terrifying it is to have watched No Child Left Behind unfold in your early 20s and have thought "this is going to lead to generations of kids who will be ripe for manipulation by propaganda" and to now watch how hard it is to get Gen Z and Alpha to understand the ways they're being manipulated by fascists. Believe me when I say the very real purpose of forcing education to focus on tests instead of knowledge was to create generations of people whose brains are trained at an early age to accept information unquestioningly. That's what I see when people reblog screenshots without sources and base their political opinions on tumblr funnymen.

No Child Left Behind was devastating. We knew it then and we see it now.

[jetblackwingz-deactivated202412]

which superpower do u want

fly but only for 10 minute intervals

shapeshift but only into a bug

superspeed but only on the 30th of the month

laser eyes but only at night

mind-reading but only thoughts about you

x-ray vision but only when you're at sea

you always see the lyrics of whatever song someone is listening to above them

time travel but only once

teleport but you lose something you had with you every time

telekinesis but only to the weight you can lift normally

talk to animals but they all hate you

live forever but live forever

Voting ended onJul 27, 2024