played by an actor who, I’m guessing, isn’t actually a vile and pathetic person).

😬…One would hope…

The centrists literally don’t care if they lose.

As long as the rich stay rich - whether R in charge or centrist D, the donors are happy and the money keeps coming.

Ds lose? They win. The Rs lose to a centrist? They win.

A progressive splits the ticket and causes an R to win? They win.

Primary them in their own party? They lose. It’s the only viable option in our current federal election structure.

Threatening the donor class’s comically massive piles of wealth is the only thing that motivates the centrist Ds to act… because that is the only thing that could adversely effect the ultimate goal of centrists.

Splitting the ticket will screw only those whose goals are diametrically opposed to both the Rs and centrist Ds… splitting it will only screw us.

Reminds me of an item in Elden Ring…

He looks like that one jerkface kid Eddie from MobLand.

Correct. From the inside is the only way to change them. Actual 3rd party just splits the ticket and gives seats to the opposite party who are always worse than the most centrist D.

It’s the same way the MAGA Rs shifted that party from within. The old guard neo-cons fought them as long as they could, and now they know if they bad-mouth them, they get primaried by insane people like MTG and Boebert.

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1. Cook at home and eat healthy
2. Sleep enough hours every night
3. Cultivate and maintain healthy non-familial relationships
4. spend meaningful amounts of quality time with family
5. Work at a full-time job 40+ hrs a week
6. Play video games or engage in other hobbies

Choose 3

You cannot effectively do the rest.

I do 4, 5, & 6.

I slept 3 hours last night and have an embarrassing number of Uber Eats deliveries each month… but on the bright side I count the video game time sometimes as “cultivating healthy relationships” when I can get ahold of my fellow gaming dads who don’t go to bed until after 1am… 🫩🥱

It’s an expensive carbon spewing parrot.

Had all-laser LASIK done in 2007.

Was scary, and the excimer laser sounded like a giant electrical wasp, but overall, I’ve had zero problems. Best procedure I’ve ever had done.

My older sibling had it done back then, too. No issues. 2 other close friends did the same. Not a single issue.

Give it a rest people.

Go get checked to see if you’re a valid candidate, and have the procedure done by a professional ophthalmologist with an “all-laser” setup who has more than a decade or so of experience and also has the $200,000 equipment to do it right and a lifetime contract-backed guarantee, and you will be happy with the choice you made.

For your web browser, don’t use Chrome. Use Firefox with uBlock, NoScript, Sponsorblock, and a VPN like Mullvad.

For Smart TV usage, block your TV’s built in “smart functionality” and its access to the internet via MAC address blacklist on your router. Also use SmartTubeNext on a Shield Pro with FLauncher instead of Google’s.

For mobile, use 3rd party YouTube clients on your device like Vanced on Android, and Unwatched on iOS.

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I’ve mentioned this topic in regards to animated images, but don’t see as big a reason to push for static formats due to the overall relatively limited benefits other than wider gamut and marginally smaller file size (percentage wise they are significant, but 2KB vs 200KB is paltry on even a terrible connection in the 2000s).

What I really wish is that we could get more browsers, sites, and apps to universally support more modern formats to replace the overly bloated terribly performing and never correctly pronounced animated formats like GIF with something else like AVIF, webm, webp (this was a roughly ~60MB GIF, and becomes a 1MB WEBP with better performance), or even something like APNG…

Besides wider gamut, and better performance, the sizes are actually significant on all but the fastest connections and save sites on both storage and bandwidth at significant scale compared to the mere KB of change that a static modern asset has.

This WEBP is only 800KB but only shows up on some server instances since not every Lemmy host supports embedding them :

Literally go watch video interviews with the Boomers’ parents in the 1980s when seatbelt laws actually went into effect…

They react almost identically as depicted in the meme.

Can you Shift and/or Ctrl click to select more than one layer yet?

Favorite is not the right word.

I think there are different Ghibli movies for different questions.

Which is the most rewatched in my home? Probably Porco Rosso since it’s light-hearted and easy to consume. Miyazaki’s Magnum Opus? Mononoke or Nausicaa. Best to watch with your kids? Totoro, Kiki, and Ponyo. Most emotionally impactful? Grave of the Fireflies.

“Favorite” though? No idea. Depends on how I’m feeling.

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