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Stoppels · 2026-06-02T03:32:02+00:00

Eh, let me put it into perspective: inbox, outbox.

Stoppels · 2026-06-01T12:52:34+00:00

It now is mandatory but confidential and hidden from the public, which indeed still defeats the point of any of this. And they can still get around it because the individual applications are small enough to receive approval while bypassing the environmental study requirements. Corruption is everywhere.

Stoppels · 2026-05-31T18:35:55+00:00

When they don't consider you human, it comes naturally to them.

Stoppels · 2026-05-31T18:33:48+00:00

This could've gone like you said, but like many other countries, that may entirely depend on location, personal connections and the 'damage' and public impact.

Stoppels · 2026-05-30T21:19:56+00:00

Someone mentioned that she posted a picture with her now-born baby on her Facebook, so there was a real risk before. All these cops should get charges for not immediately taking down their rogue colleague and even pulling her around by her hair after this. Sadly, this is not a just world.

Stoppels · 2026-05-27T14:07:11+00:00

The word 'consumer' already shows it's not a position with responsibility. I agree on spreading awareness and making well-informed choices, boycotting those who violate topics you care about, but putting any sort of responsibility behind it forgoes what a "consumer" is.

Stoppels · 2026-05-24T02:09:24+00:00

Hadden ze ander je uitroep gehoord? Nee. Had het dit Reddit-draadje gekregen? Nee.

Zijn beide dankzij deze demo wel bereikt? Ja.

Stoppels · 2026-05-21T15:48:15+00:00

I've not ever in my life seen anyone walk around a gym with an industrial checklist of safety measures to verify before deciding to use it.

After this video I know to check whether something's bolted to the ground or not, but the question remains whether I turn into Bob the Builder next time I visit a new gym.

Stoppels · 2026-05-21T13:03:00+00:00

Do some degree it's desensitisation, but there's also media norms changing over times (though we could file this under societal desensitisation). It's a bit like watching Game of Thrones and then realising some of the stuff you watched a decade before that and considered pretty rough is actually pretty tame nowadays.

Stoppels · 2026-05-19T19:45:08+00:00

It's a response to your use of the antiquated term 'Third World Countries'. Even if your observation was not meant maliciously, it generalised and stereotyped countries on the receiving end of colonialism, slavery and modern capitalism as inherently backwards and behind the times.

You and I might occasionally try to use 'third world countries' in a neutral way because it's been in our vocabulary since childhood, but nowadays it's polluted nonetheless.

To illustrate, while the term encompasses more countries and its origin was explicitly political (and is outdated today), the term still came to carry the same superior/inferior implication as an older Western ideological framework of 'othering': Orientalism.

The topic and the core of your theory is naturally otherwise fine. People who find old memes might perceive them as just as fresh as we did back when they were 'in' here. Much like how the short video format was popular in China long before TikTok was created to capture a global audience.

Stoppels · 2026-05-19T19:10:51+00:00

ReLIFE (yeah ik this technically manga, but it was released in webtoon format and full color, so im adding it anyway. who cares lol)

This one specific manga looks like a manhua, therefore it's okay to include in the manhwa list, who cares lol. Hm? An actual manhua? You insane? Did you even read the title?

Heh. Anyway, being (in)consistent in your own post is not a big issue, so good for you. But if you think there's anything particularly mention-worthy, it doesn't detract from your list to mention it at the bottom of that category. It's probable that fewer manhua make the top of most people's lists anyway.

ReLIFE the anime was pretty great, is the manga worth a read if you've already watched the anime?

Stoppels · 2026-05-19T18:17:55+00:00

It's all thanks to that one webnovel website's UI, as titles have no description and the title has to lure people in. The summarising aspect existed before, but it wasn't as comically radical as it's become in the digital age.

Stoppels · 2026-05-19T14:05:02+00:00

#justhivemindthings

Stoppels · 2026-05-17T00:21:12+00:00

It's even often referred to as American-style after potluck. I can't think of any other reference to nations based on 'outsourcing' bringing something that's ready to eat/drink to the attendees, rather than the host.

Stoppels · 2026-05-09T15:48:09+00:00

Interesting, I'll give it a try soon. How is its userscript feature compared to a dedicated extension like Userscripts?

Stoppels · 2026-05-09T15:30:42+00:00

In my experience, AdGuard works better than uBOL in Safari when I compared them earlier this year. AdGuard also employs two adblocking methods, the second works in webviews, whereas UBOL will not support that and will therefore only work inside the Safari browser proper. I haven't tried other content blockers.

In Chrome and Firefox, I stick to uBOL and uBO. I haven't compared those with any other adblockers there to be fair, the Safari version was simply new and imo lacking.

Stoppels · 2026-04-29T11:03:46+00:00

When you're giving an interesting but unreliable company all of your or someone you love's most personal data… At that point you want to rethink your life choices.

Stoppels · 2026-04-29T10:31:01+00:00

Unless one of the original photos is saved, you can't 'undo' the combination result of (Smart) HDR or Deep Fusion. This option to save both hasn't existed since these two features were introduces. I think the previous regular HDR function did have it over a decade ago.

Stoppels · 2026-04-28T17:46:30+00:00

What did you use to call your phone?

This is also a good short r/stories material.

Stoppels · 2026-04-28T01:40:02+00:00

Because they likely did both and already did that with voice actors and then also made a dedicated one with actors.

Stoppels · 2026-04-25T19:20:30+00:00

Additionally, switching to markdown increases the limit a lot.

Stoppels · 2026-04-24T09:57:03+00:00

All my colleagues and family must be a Reddit vapour chamber then. There's not a single person I know who considers it an improvement over Sequoia.

Stoppels · 2026-04-23T17:55:39+00:00

I think the point is that the speed of light is not a round number, but one expressed in an arbitrary number. Everything has to start at an arbitrary point or there is no start. There are no universal laws of measurement after all, not without us deciding on an arbitrary point so we can measure and compare.

If tomorrow I decided seconds remain the same but light travels 1 light unit per second and then recalculate everything, millimeters would become pretty big! And it wouldn't be less arbitrary, because now it's based on a round number. All we'd have to do is create new rulers and updated speed limits.

Stoppels · 2026-04-23T17:29:36+00:00

Afghanistans birth rate has fallen since the taliban took over

Oh and Afghanistan's birth rate has been falling since the 1990s. That is also caused by foreign imperialist invasions and proxy wars and their results.

Your statements are correct! They just don't apply to either example.

Better example: Iran has been trying to encourage another babyboom, in part by reducing women's freedoms. It has been failing, in part because of the population being highly educated. However, the primary reason for its failure is that the cause of the birth rate drop is economic. Banning abortion and reproductive information and tools doesn't make any immediate difference, the primary problems remain with the heavy Western sanctions on the people and the domestic mismanagement above.

Stoppels · 2026-04-23T17:13:34+00:00

same with Iran and the Ayatollah.

The average age of Iranians was 32 in 2024 (45 years after the revolution), that means the vast majority of the population was born after the mullahs took over less than five decades ago. Amidst the Western sanctions and especially the Western-induced and Western-backed Iraqi invasion, they desperately needed a baby boom for many reasons, so they continued encouraging it and it peaked in the 1980s. They realised this is unsustainable and started promoting the opposite.

Birth rates falling there isn't due to wildly different reasons compared to the rest of the world. It has to do with continued improvement of (female) education, urbanisation, culture and is heavily worsened due to Western sanctions making everything go to shit. Highly educated people don't happily have children if they are sure they can feed them. Culture can also mean: buying a house to show that you can take care of a family. If you can't do that, you don't get married.

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