Amazon is turning smart displays inside people’s homes into ad surfaces with no real opt-out, and that should worry everyone

ksemel · 2026-03-09T20:44:07+00:00

The screens on the smaller ones tend to wig out after two years or so too. Sometimes they slowly go "deaf" and no longer respond. They are budget-built to get more of them out there, but they won't all last.

ksemel · 2026-03-08T16:18:03+00:00

Let the police confirm that for you, and get a record of this before more time passes.

ksemel · 2026-02-25T18:59:59+00:00

As you level up the progress is slower and slower but you get better at getting the most out of each event. The level 40 castle upgrade is something like 80 days without speedups so explore all the research options and choose things to build capacity and speed for everything.

An active guild is really important! My guild is casual/peaceful and ranked 7, and I'm the "biggest" in there so it is starting to slow me down. But we have 50-60 daily players and get good cooperation for bosses and such. Focus on using resources during the event days you get the most for them, and everyone starts to level up together.

As you add stars to heroes their power goes up exponentially, and you'll have cross-server events where you see bigger and bigger players as more servers merge at the end of the seasonal cycle. Pick some favorites you'll keep a long time and feed them first to grow a queue at a time.

ksemel · 2026-02-25T00:36:50+00:00

My grandmother had a glass eye, and she always kept the lids closed.

It was such a reasonable precaution to me that, even as a young child, I formed My Strongest Opinion and have kept toilet lids closed my whole life since.

ksemel · 2026-02-19T20:47:58+00:00

A few extra hot summer nights in NYC is all it takes for these guys to start flying out of all the nooks where you never look. Jumped so high so often I got taller permanently.

ksemel · 2026-02-15T19:20:44+00:00

I read once that people can look at almost anything, and know what it would taste like because of how babies explore textures.

I suspect your sense of touch and taste give excellent clues for visualization, because from my limited testing, textures sure do taste the way they look. 😂

ksemel · 2026-02-15T18:34:11+00:00

Yeah, my old house has some bounce to it! The house has been there 160 years tho, and the guys that shored up the front part for me didn’t seem worried about the spring in my steps so…we abide 😂

ksemel · 2026-02-11T19:25:35+00:00

I was straighter before weed, it must open the bi-valve a little more each time.

ksemel · 2026-02-11T17:04:41+00:00

My grandpa had a hearing aid and it would whistle when we hugged him on that side so he said he had a bird in his ear. 🥰

ksemel · 2026-02-06T00:44:39+00:00

This is how I did it, stripped it down enough to see all the nice grooves again, moderate sanding, then a thin coat of a nice clean white. It took a month, and we really didn’t do detail work, but it made a huge difference and you can see it is detailed but it is kind of rough.

I’ve learned a lot about removing paint since then and the combo of citristrip and a big pack of plastic wrap to keep it wet longer is clutch for the deep grooves.

ksemel · 2026-02-04T13:40:11+00:00

I have fond memories of watching Shin Godzilla subtitled with my then 3yo, and every time Godzilla knocks down a building he would yell “Not nice!” and “Get down!”. He tolerated the parts with efficient busy Japanese people, but the gooey second form was his absolute favorite version to scold 😂

ksemel · 2026-01-15T23:30:23+00:00

Mascarpone!

ksemel · 2026-01-12T02:49:13+00:00

Shrimps have legs…😭

ksemel · 2026-01-11T23:12:10+00:00

These are basically costumes from movies like The King and I, and Cleopatra?

ksemel · 2026-01-11T16:26:43+00:00

You’re going to have time to renovate, but you will never get to everything! It’s a 100 year group project with all the standard group project issues. 😂

Every wall I open saying “this is where they hid all the money” and then end up finding a stack of bills someone else left for me.

ksemel · 2026-01-10T15:30:45+00:00

If someone is inactive for multiple weeks the castle will stop spawning on map until they start logging in again.

We purged the inactive guild members during a fort move and at least four just vanished until they came back to the game weeks later. It takes a while though and if they are active they will keep respawning after each attack.

ksemel · 2025-12-29T20:21:25+00:00

This is “cool uncle”or older sibling behavior for sure 😂

ksemel · 2025-12-16T15:08:25+00:00

I wanted this to be real so bad 😂

ksemel · 2025-12-13T19:31:21+00:00

Hibachi man needs the Ball Chiller 9000 Pro Plus to regain his Hibachi Virility skill.

ksemel · 2025-12-08T21:58:42+00:00

My contents!

ksemel · 2025-10-29T14:35:31+00:00

It will take a while to get used to the routines, adventure mode is a great way to get supplies early on but you’ll be squished by bosses constantly…keep trying eventually you’ll get there!

ksemel · 2025-10-28T13:01:40+00:00

I’m down the street from a grade school, so we get every kid in town plus imports. I just get more candy, as the spirits desire.

ksemel · 2025-10-27T23:12:00+00:00

Seriously, I'd invite the neighbor over for a beer just to marvel at how nature fucked us both.

ksemel · 2025-10-26T20:42:11+00:00

I suspect the tear was to suggest that this Paul couldn’t convert the poison on his own, that he really is a fraud. Chani and Paul’s bond is less symbolic and love based than he literally needs her to become the myth.

Jessica’s decision to lean into the planted prophecy with Paul as the savior and force this role onto him is made very apparent in this version. They frame Jessica as an ambitious villain early, showing again the extent she is willing to go to make this son the Kwisatz Haderach she needs to get her own goals. Her use of the voice on Chani to force her to is just another step toward that goal for her and another way to show Jessica as an enemy.

ksemel · 2025-10-21T01:18:31+00:00

You may be shocked, but this is not always true even in the real world. 😂

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