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tocopherol, to memes in Oh nooo
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In the suburb I grew up in, a lot of the restaurant workers spoke Spanish, so even at the sushi place the Japanese chef would speak Spanish to the staff, saying gracias could be no different than arigato or thank you lol

tocopherol, (edited ) to piracy in Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees.
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Would you really put the blame on piracy for that when there are conglomerates manipulating the entire market? I’m not doubting they exist, but can you name a small business streaming service that would be affected by pirate services? I have never heard of such a company. I’ve seen small streaming services utilizied by libraries but they are on government contracts and tax funded as far as I know.

tocopherol, to asklemmy in What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world?
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We would call the sauce for burgers, fries etc ketchup, ‘tomato sauce’ in the US would be the sort for pasta, like marinara. If you asked for tomato sauce for a burger people would be very confused lol.

tocopherol, to asklemmy in What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world?
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You have tomato sauce packets? It’s funny to think of ketchup as tomato sauce, in the US if you called it that everyone would be confused even though it is really the most accurate thing you could call it

tocopherol, to asklemmy in What's some amazing technology they have in Japan that's very normal to them but would blow our minds here in the US and western world?
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Also from the US west, I’ve seen a bunch of hot vending machines! In several hospitals and schools in different states, a few gas stations. They will have coffee, tea or cocoa selections, a cup pops out and gets filled with fresh brewed coffee. They were usually around 1.50 to 2 dollars a cup, maybe more expensive now though.

tocopherol, (edited ) to piracy in Youtube has better anti-adblock now. Other than Invidious, any way around it? Purging and re-dowloading the ublock stuff didn't work
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Same, they must not have rolled it out to everyone, I have firefox/ublock origin on PC and android and have yet to see an ad on youtube, and the quality and speed of loading seem to be fine.

I doubt they would ever do this, but I wonder if they have some metric about the user’s likeliness of clicking ads, and prevent more ‘advertisable’ users from blocking the ads but let some keep blocking them because it wouldn’t make as much of a difference, or they would just leave youtube. If my adblock stopped working I would stop using youtube, without a doubt. I am allergic to ads.

tocopherol, (edited ) to memes in fr fr ong
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I’ve heard it in lyrics from long before twitch existed

In Black slang, to cap about something is “to brag,” “to exaggerate,” or “to lie” about it. This meaning of cap dates back to the early 1900s.

www.dictionary.com/e/slang/no-cap/

Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Cap

tocopherol, (edited ) to asklemmy in what are your fun, low stakes new year resolutions?
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It’s not always so easy for everyone, I’ve been trying with effort for years off and on with plenty of studying and have had maybe two lucid dreams ever. I have never been able to remember many dreams, I think that is a big factor. When I did have the lucid and semi-lucid experiences it was when I had been in the habit of writing my dreams down, it increased the number of dreams I remembered massively.

tocopherol, to asklemmy in what are your fun, low stakes new year resolutions?
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Wouldn’t that be a Rubik’s Dodecahedron?

tocopherol, (edited ) to news in Today 4 years ago, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of a suspected SARS patient in a Wuhan WeChat group. Soon later, he was arrested for “making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.”
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It was one comment and you got 15 upvotes with no down lol. For the record I think it sucks that you lost your business, that is a tragedy, but my first thought was that it did sound pretty callous, like ignoring the hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths.

tocopherol, (edited ) to asklemmy in Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
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For anyone curious the history really is interesting, when reading previously I learned about Pfeilstorch, storks throughout the years that had flown to Germany with African arrows stuck in them. First seen at a time when people didn’t understand bird migration, it helped to explain where all the birds would go.

tocopherol, to asklemmy in Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
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Lets make the change now, all wireless data, ‘wifi’, the cloud, it all comes from the ether.

tocopherol, to asklemmy in What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost?
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tocopherol, to programmer_humor in Good luck web devs
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I thought it was surely just a joke but looking at the devices to the right maybe this was due to limited desk space?

tocopherol, to news in Biden says Netanyahu must change, Israel losing global support
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Yes I know, it was a facetious comment because anyone still supporting Israel appears to be in a different reality than I, and I see no point in debating this issue.

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