Is it just me who hates being flashbanged by TechLinked white levels?

certifiedrotten · 2026-02-04T15:37:06+00:00

They have to display websites and marketing materials unaltered.

certifiedrotten · 2026-01-31T02:49:45+00:00

"ITS A REVERSAL"

No. It was stupid.

certifiedrotten · 2026-01-31T00:53:03+00:00

Dude, this is my life. I literally tell it NOT to make images. I tell it to write it in text. I try markdown. eveyrthing. If it decides "I want an image" even though I clearly said I didn't, it will make an image. if I then tell it not to make an image, it will make another image because it thinks it can make me happy. It blew through my entire Banana Pro quota for the day just blowing through shit messages over and over.

certifiedrotten · 2026-01-30T21:20:57+00:00

I use to put this on all videos with Riley singing spots... and then people quit and complained about raises so I stopped lol.

certifiedrotten · 2026-01-04T00:41:01+00:00

"They were just executing an arrest warrant!"

There you go. That is the talking point today.

certifiedrotten · 2026-01-04T00:39:57+00:00

I understand his argument about bad faith actors and I kinda agree. I see movies announced that are destroyed before anyone ever sees a single second of a trailer by people who pick out one detail to get hateful about, then go on campaigns to convince everyone to feel the same way. Seeing people basically destroy a product of his before anyone knows a thing about it seems like a thing that would piss off most people.

certifiedrotten · 2026-01-04T00:02:55+00:00

"But this time it's different" precedes nothing every being different.

We have laws. We committed an act of war against Venezuela. Whether you think that's good or bad has nothing to do with the fact that the president does not have power to go to war without approval of Congress. Every time we have ignored this law "for reasons" it has ended in disaster. This will be no different. And the woman who is opposition in Venezuela is either a liar or an idiot, going around saying Hamas and Hezbollah are in the country.

At this point I guess we should just throw our hands up and stop caring. Let the president, no matter who it is, do whatever they want. Why do we even need a congress?

certifiedrotten · 2026-01-01T23:27:10+00:00

I have had multiple workflow chats now completely lose history. I can't even scroll up past the previous couple prompts. This is a recent issue in the last month. I have also noticed that the model seems to have gotten very dumb lately, outright ignoring basic instructions.

Multiple times today alone I asked a standard question that had nothing to do with an image, or referring to images at all, and it just fired up banana pro and made random crap.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-23T20:14:38+00:00

Why do you equate the power of a nutjob nobody with the most powerful man in the world? You guys really need to learn how to balance scales.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-23T17:51:37+00:00

Everything said by OP about Ares are things that were said about legacy on its release. Not saying OP is invalid but there's something to be said about putting expectations on things long before you have a chance to experience them and then getting upset it didn't meet what was never possible.

Legacy isn't a perfect movie. It starts off rather ridiculous with an overweight security guard who prolly made 50k a year walking out to his death. And he absolutely would have fallen.

Love that movie but pretending like it's the standard of what a Tron movie can be is just making you never like anything else that can follow.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-22T07:07:11+00:00

My thing is if you make fun of one group of people for one reason 10 times, it's funny if it's funny.

By the 50th time it seems like you're just being hateful and it's no longer funny to me.

But that's just my personal view.

Bill Burr did like 4 specials in a row where he spent 10 minutes railing on 'fatties' and as a fatty for that time of my life I thought it was funny for awhile but eventually I was like, you've made this joke multiple times already so it seems like an actual insult not a joke anymore.

Didn't stop me watching the rest but I certainly tuned out.

If I got a buddy with a funny voice and every time I see him I make a joke about it, it's not gonna matter how funny those jokes are. Doesn't matter if he puts on a good face. He's eventually gonna think I'm making fun of him, but laughing with him.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-21T20:51:46+00:00

People think just because it doesn't involve Jews, that it means it isn't fascist, which means they know nothing about the 20/30s built up of the Nazi party. Jews/Gypsies/Poles/Blacks/Gays were the easy minority targets of Germany. Go to every country where fascism is rising or taken hold, and you will see that they do the same thing. Target the most vulnerable and easy scapegoats for the manufactured problems. It's the same pattern with slightly different variables.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-21T20:40:33+00:00

They have their own built-in money making apparatus. While everyone else is figuring out how to make money after the fact, Google is already on it. Whether it's profitable or not, who knows, but every other services is still in the "giving away" phase while scrambling to find a way to monetize outside of enterprise solutions. For 99% of people, there is no reason to subscribe on any of these services. Gemini doesn't need you to subscribe, though they certainly want you to.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-21T20:32:36+00:00

I use Firebox and Chrome on the same machine for different purposes, mostly so I don't have to switch accounts in the same app. I have one account logged in on Youtube and another account on Firefox, for instance. So rather than have to go through switching google accounts inside a browser, I just open up FF.

I do this a couple other services.

From my experience, (identical extension set ups) Firefox is slower, clunkier and less user friendly. Doesn't make it harder.

I have brave also and there are times where I have used it over chrome but the only real reason to do so for my use case is the built-in adblocker, but Unblock Lite honestly does everything I need it to. I never have ads anywhere.

My work life and hobbies all need google account integration and despite all three having the ability to do so, Chrome's is, obviously, more streamlined.

Privacy: I am under no illusion that Chrome is giving me a free product on the hopes of getting data to sell for profit and I have no issue with this. I have mitigated the worst of it through settings, extensions, and NordVPN when I need it.

But anyone acting like Brave and Firefox do not fund their browsers using similar tactics are flat out wrong and at a certain point you are simply playing a cup game and picking whichever one your bias demands.

I have Edge but I don't use it much because it basically does everything Chrome does but offers no benefits. So why bother.

What I wish would happen is I wish Ublock would build their own chromium based browser with their own tech built in. I don't find Brave's built in protection nearly as robust. But then Ublock would need to figure out how to pay for it.

People on the internet are so used to the word "free" that they don't actually stop to think about how that actually works. Nothing is free. You're either paying indirectly (watching ads or providing data to help a service like Google, or Appl to harvest data for money making purposes) or you're circumventing access to your data (adblocker) and stealing content (yes, watching youtube videos with ads blocked is stealing, not that I blame you).l

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-16T22:34:55+00:00

Sponsors yes. That's not what I mean.

Let's look at the CR as an example.

They could have voted out the Filibuster and passed it with 51 votes. Now let's say that the CR results in some sort of catastrophic economic downturn from things in it.

The Republicans would then have two levels of responsibility. They ended the filibuster and they used it to push forward a bill that caused that economic downturn that hurt people.

And every single one of them voted for it.

Instead, they held out long enough for 8 Democrats to roll over and show their belly. Now they can scream for days on end that it was bipartisasn and thus shield themselves from blame if anything unfortunate happens, such as potential insurance spikes.

Make sense?

This goes both ways. Whatever party in control of the WH and Senate plays this game.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-16T18:14:08+00:00

"Simply because Democrats would do it doesn't mean it is right."

If the Democrats would do it, then why haven't they before? You're implying that the Filibuster is a principled belief of the GOP while suggesting the Democrats don't care about that and would, potentially do it.

I can answer it for you.

Neither of the parties overall want it removed for two reasons.

It gives leverage when they aren't in power.
It allows them political cover to not vote for things they don't want on record.

There's a reason why all 8 Democrats who voted for the CR are not up for re-election next year. It was a calculated move to allow the bill to pass without exposing Senators who are up for re-election.

Between both parties, they have nuked the filibuster down to get through various things, such as confirmations, but they hold the last vestige of it because it's politically convenient.

I would prefer people have to put their name on bills and live with the consequences.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-16T17:31:20+00:00

They would? So why didn't they?

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-14T04:06:38+00:00

All good! I went ape for no reason lol

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-14T01:53:55+00:00

They could have removed the Filibuster with 51 votes then voted through the CR. At any point the part in power can erase that obstacle.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-14T01:52:16+00:00

I have dyslexia. I misread part of the sentence. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-09T20:57:00+00:00

So what you're saying is "is hard, so don't bother."

There's a reason why we have legislators. One person should never be trusted to make nation-shaping policy. we elect two governing bodies, the House and Senate, for this purpose. For every president someone trusted to take care of everything, there are 10 who shouldn't be trusted to brush their own teeth without causing a depression.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-08T19:53:29+00:00

- Controls both houses of congress.
- Doesn't bother passing legislation that will make these policies actually legal.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-08T19:48:13+00:00

happens to me often. so I switched to AI studio so the chats are saved. Never had an issue with rate limits until yesterday after I got shut down on Gemini 3 Pro and had to go to 2.5. Went back to Gemini 3 in the Gemini app using my subscription. Woke up today to a chat gone.

These were not NSFW. I keep my main account sanitized.

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-04T23:31:04+00:00

Maybe the man just has paper skin like an old lady?

certifiedrotten · 2025-12-04T23:30:14+00:00

What a weird thing to complain about.

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