firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!
for the people saying this might be too difficult: idk about chrome but in firefox it just goes
> open settings
> search “hardware acceleration” and there should only be one result
> uncheck use recommended performance settings
> uncheck use hardware acceleration
done!
Since I’m looking at the comments and seeing a lot of people asking what hardware acceleration is and getting wildly incorrect answers, here you go. This is what hardware acceleration is. It’s not DRM, and it’s not placing a limit on memory usage (unless you have weird definitions for both “memory” and “placing a limit”).
This is what hardware acceleration is:
“Do you just have a graphic for this on hand at all times?”
I refuse to reblog this from a blog supporting the people who support Israel’s genocidal actions. Liberals are NOT cool. They’re republicans who abuse social justice words.
A “sexual arms race” is a real thing and I find that amusing.
I wish it was so
A sexual evolutionary arms race happens when different sexes of a species have a different and conflicting optimal strategy for reproduction.
This leads to one of the sexes evolving a strategy to make the other sex more amenable, and the other sex evolves a strategy to avoid and overcome that strategy, and vice versa.
These strategies can be fucking wild after a while, creating extremely elaborate and bizarre sexual anatomy and behavior.
The most famous example is probably the duck’s corkscrew penis, evolved to navigate the corkscrew vagina.
Yeah, they’re gonna lift the working class right into a company town.
Only rich people would think this was a good idea.
Learn your history, people!
We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in “scrip” which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didn’t pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.
I’ve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of “AmazonBucks”, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.
Here’s your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didn’t work? Every big company out there wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.
#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever
We even have old songs about how this is a bad idea
You know how shitty it is that your health care insurance is directly tied to your job? Imagine if your housing worked the same way. Your husband or wife dies in a warehouse accident and you have 30 days to find a new place to live.
naw when its tied to a company they dont grant u the same tenant rights as if ur renting. youd have 24 hours from the company filing the termination notice after ur spouse died to move.
“hi, i’m an author and this is my american character, chair lightbulb. in american, ‘chair’ means to be in a position of leadership, while ‘lightbulb’ means intelligence. yeah it’s kind of an unusual name in american. she’s always been distant from her american heritage, but her parents wanted her name to honor the american language, while still being unique. don’t worry, she’s very embarrassed about her heritage and it will hardly ever come up.”
“she lives with her cousin, george washington backstreet boys oreo® dq blizzard® creme. he also doesn’t know a lot about his american culture. this is symbolic of how i also don’t know a lot about american culture.
“When he first arrived fifteen years ago, the minimal research he had done had suggested to him that the name ‘Ford Prefect’ would be nicely inconspicuous.”
Running this poll on twitter gonna run it here do you believe Labour members when you say “we’ll kick starmer out after the election if he goes to far”
Whenever people criticize exploitative companies I notice that they tend to target consumers as if everybody using those services always have a choice in the matter, but im willing to bet that a massive chunk of the population that shops at walmart, orders from amazon, subscribe to disney+, etc, are poor/rural people who cant afford any of the alternatives. And what exactly do you expect them to do?
Disney+ is the cheapest option for reliable entertainment for poor parents with kids. Netflix is the cheapest option for that for most others. They still deserve to watch TV when they cant afford a cable package (and yes, pirating still has barriers attached to it. For one, you need to be able to afford the computer, just for starters). Not everyone who has a streaming service subscription is a bootlicker or supports the disney corporation or thinks netflix has the most correct working conditions.
Amazon is the cheapest option for shipping, well… almost anything. And in a lot of places, its the only thing that can reliably get there at all within the month. And when a prime subscription comes with free shipping and a streaming service? That cuts out one major expense AND the expense from the first point, too. Folks still deserve to be able to order things when they cant afford to pay for shipping fees or when they can only afford the cheapest possible option for the item they need. Not everybody with a prime subscription or who orders the occasional thing off amazon wants to personally suck jeff bezos’s dick or thinks warehouse workers deserve to be worked to death.
Walmart remains the cheapest possible option for most people in north america, especially in the cost of living crisis right now where groceries cost more than your rent. Not everybody who shops at walmart thinks the workers deserve to be exploited or that unions are bad or that driving out small businesses is a good thing
And im gonna be honest, every single “alternative” ive seen from people acting these ways is WAYYY more expensive and unreliable to poor and rural people than the things theyre telling us to stop using. You absolutely should support small businesses when you can but i usually dont have small business money. I can either buy a few little things to eat that will last me maybe a week or i can get enough for the month for the same amount at walmart, and thats not MY fault.
What exactly do you want us to do here
This too
Like… i dont really think the average disney+ customer is really thinking this hard about moral pros and cons, theyre just going “oh 10 bucks a month is really cheap if i and/or all my kids can watch anything disney has done as much as we want.”
Im reminded of when i saw a post about how netflix got a brief spike in profits after enacting anti password sharing from people creating new accounts, and the OP’s claim was “all you had to do was not give them money but once again yall cant even boycott chick fil-a.” And it just seemed so willfully obtuse to act like a service that everyone in the world and their tech-inept great grandmothers have was somehow going to be effected at all by a dying microblogging platform spreading posts about how problematic their business practices are among folks who didnt even have it in the first place. Netflix doesnt have a target audience, the entire world has a netflix account at this point.
But its easier to yell at individual consumers than face a really big and complicated problem that cant be solved with any one persons actions.
once i said butch girls who call themselves dudes and boyfriends are cute and i got put on a blocklist for supporting “invalid identities” which is fucking hilarious. cant a guy dyke it up in peace in the privacy of his own home
was your late mother pushed off a cliff by a gang of roving boydykes?
Yeah, they’re gonna lift the working class right into a company town.
Only rich people would think this was a good idea.
Learn your history, people!
We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in “scrip” which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didn’t pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.
I’ve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of “AmazonBucks”, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.
Here’s your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didn’t work? Every big company out there wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.
#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever
We even have old songs about how this is a bad idea
You know how shitty it is that your health care insurance is directly tied to your job? Imagine if your housing worked the same way. Your husband or wife dies in a warehouse accident and you have 30 days to find a new place to live.
Welcome to the Protestant Work Ethic where if you are not working for 16 hours a day you are a Sinner that will Burn In Hell. Unless of course you are rich in which case you are Blessed by God and can go to Heaven without lifting a finger.
heard a story on a podcast that some Christian missionaries showed these rural Cambodian farmers how to double their crop yields. the missionaries came back a year later and were surprised the Cambodians had grown basically the same amount of crops but the farmers were like “yeah this is great, we got everything we need for the year and only had to do half as much work”
and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the current North American work environment I don’t know what will
I think my history teaher mentioned something similar happening in 1700-1800’s Philippines. The Spanish friars would find Filipino farmers resting by 12noon and thought they were lazy. In reality they had been working even nefore the crack of dawn.
Another reason they rested was because the carabao (Philippine water buffalo) were their main beast of burden pulling their plow through mud and soil. Usually by noon it would be too tired to keep working. Farmers would not force carabaos to ocerwork to preserve the animal’s health and their own.
and with this post I begin tagging the three big C’s I face issues with on the daily but ill have to write a massive essay to convince the people in my life that hey maybe theres a trend
this is a post about being right about capitalism. would that, if it were true, make him not right about capitalism
but also uh.
The “Marx hated Jews” thing comes from the fact that he wrote an essay titled “On The Jewish Question.”
That phrasing raises alarm bells because we associate the term “The Jewish Question” with Nazis, but it was just the way issues like this were phrased within these philosophical circles. And honestly even beyond that it’s more of a translation convention than anything else. You could just as easily have translated that title as “Regarding the Matter of Jews.”
The essay is actually a response to another philosopher named Bauer, who claimed that Jews would only be liberated if they stopped being Jewish, because true emancipation requires secularism. The essays Marx is responding to are blatantly antisemitic, even by late-19th century standards. Bauer was arguing that Jews who wanted liberation from oppression were basically asking for “special privileges,” (in an argument that bears some similarity to modern concepts of “reverse racism”) and implying that Jews aren’t even oppressed because they control the economy.
Marx’s “On The Jewish Question” is basically him saying Bauer is dumb and wrong and antisemitic, and he’s being deeply sarcastic for most of the essay.
He does so by throwing Bauer’s antisemitism back in his face, by using a series of antisemitic arguments about how the real religion of the Jew is money and huckstering, and so if you want to abolish Judaism, you’d have to abolish economic exploitation. He’s responding directly to Bauer’s use of antisemitic tropes about how Jews control the economy. He’s using Bauer’s own antisemitic framework to prove Bauer wrong.
This also goes back to the conflict between Marx and the rest of the Young Hegelians (which Bauer was). He was constantly criticizing them for being too idealistic and abstract, rather than focusing on material realities. His argument here was “You’re framing ‘the Jewish Question’ as if it’s a theological problem, but it’s not. It’s a political and economic one.” Because he was Karl Marx and that was his whole thing.
I really don’t understand how anyone reads this essay as anything but sarcasm. I get that some of it is probably lost in translation, but the context makes it really clear that Marx is making fun of Bauer. The idea of Jews giving up their religion would have been deeply personal to Marx. He would have understood exactly what it meant for Jews to give up their religion, and how that was an act of oppression rather than liberation from it. Also, Marx and Bauer had already split by the time this essay was written, and they kind of hated each other. Marx wrote a lot of responses to/criticisms of Bauer, and he called Bauer a “right wing fanatic” multiple times.
Like, what’s actually more likely here?
Option 1: Karl Marx, a Jewish man, wrote one essay that is totally at odds with all his other analysis on the nature of oppression to be rabidly antisemitic and then basically never discussed the subject again?
Option 2: Karl Marx, a Jewish man and a well-known lover of pettiness and drama, wrote an incredibly sarcastic essay making fun of a raging antisemite that he already he didn’t like?
I like this addition. Funny how capitalism, antisemitism and right to exist just hasn’t changed in the last 200 years since this German economist’s time.
My favorite thing about making Portal OCs is that Aperture is so batshit crazy basically anything you base your OC off of would work.
“My OC is named Bessie and she was a robot designed out of 5000 knives and 2 traffic cones” and that would basically be a TOTALLY CANON CHARACTER THAT COULD WORK IN THE GAME
“I made a camera robot OC who’s only job is to make sure that the other employees aren’t eating Bob from Robotic’s lunch”
lots of people r reblogging this again and its making me laugh seeing people tag it with just “yeah” and shit like . Yeah that is Super Fucking Mario there he goes. yall really know what i was on about with this one
it’s wild that so many official spokespeople in the biden administration get up in front of cameras every day and do the classic trump move of making a really extreme statement that absolutely requires verification but when asked for a source they just say “many people are saying this” and move on. the point is that journalists will pick up on the extreme statement and reprint it and not have any immediate fact check about who the “people saying this” are and when it inevitably gets debunked in the future it doesn’t matter because the damage has already been done, any follow up or retraction will not get anywhere near the amount of traction the initial extreme headlines did. literally the exact same beat for beat trump playbook but it’s biden admin people doing it so ? Oh They’re All Just Doing Their Jobs! they’re “reporting” on what important people have said! what, reporters gotta “check facts” now? ……… it’s fucking absurd. “many people are saying this” became such a joke when trump said it and now people are like.. grimly nodding going well i’m sure many people ARE saying it wow i gotta take this seriously and i shouldn’t ask questions because that would be disrespectful
my L key broke and then I broke it more trying to fix it :(
obviously it’s not too broken to use it, but you have to press down on it hard. First I took the key off to fix it, then I broke the ittle spring mechanism on it and the key will no longer attach to the keyboard :(
I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It’s not a tantrum and it doesn’t come from “being too weak-willed” it’s painful and it’s embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT’S INVOLUNTARY!! Don’t claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight
I swear to god I will never forget my sister unpacking her stuff from that big black trash bag when she moved in with us. JFC. She never complained or said anything but I remember. I remember clothes and journals and little bits and bobs spilling onto the carpet because she couldn’t really keep it closed. I remember and it wasn’t even my life.
Please donate your luggage to foster kids and any kid you know who may have to leave home but isn’t officially in the system (because they’re out there too). Anything you can do matters.
“Don’t take it to Goodwill” is good advice in general, but yeah.
Also you can donate your old cell phones to domestic violence places.
Hurriyet Daily News reports that Albayrak had been hired to photograph the July 5th wedding at Turgut Özal Nature Park in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya. On the day of, when he noticed that the bride-to-be didn’t look like an adult, he asked the groom her age and learned that she was only 15.
“The groom had come to my studio some two weeks ago and was alone,” Albayrak tells the Daily News. “I saw the bride for the first time at the wedding. She’s a child, and I felt her fear because she was trembling.”
Albayrak then reportedly refused to continue as the wedding photographer and attempted to stop the wedding.
The argument soon turned physical when the groom attacked him as he was attempting to leave, Albayrak says. The photographer ended up breaking the client’s nose in the fight, according to local reports.
Albayrak confirmed the reports in a Facebook post, which has been met with widespread approval, attracting thousands of Likes and hundreds of overwhelmingly positive comments.
“I wish this had never happened, but it did,” Albayrak writes. “And if you were to ask me if I’d do the same thing again, I’d say ‘yes.’ Child brides are [victims] of child abuse and no power on earth can make me photograph a child in a wedding gown.”
The legal minimum age for marriage in Turkey is 18-years-old for both sexes, and child marriage is punishable by imprisonment for men who marry underage girls. Despite being outlawed, however, child marriage is still prevalent in the country and remains a controversial political issue.
btw - let’s remind ourselves, americans, that unlike turkey, in the US the legal minimum age for marriage is only 18 in two states. in alabama, you can be married as young as fourteen years old if you have “parental permission”. in california, you can get married under 18 if you go to counseling, have a parent with you when you apply for the marriage license, and appear before a judge. in some states, there isn’t even a specific minimum age for marriage.
the minimum marriage age for girls in new hampshire is 13 years old.
child marriage is not an “over there” problem, it happens right here, legally. any one of us might find ourselves called upon to break somebody’s nose if we encounter something like this occurring. we also have a responsibility to support groups and laws trying to end child marriage in this country.
Florida judges have approved child marriages of children down to age 11.
I am calling for help. I’m currently living in an extremely abusive situation, both mentally and physically. My girlfriend is beating me. She has always had a bit of a hang up on me being trans but I ignored it bc I’m madly in love. She calls me derogatory terms like tr.* nny and transvestite. She beats me and I haven’t ate in two days because I require help with daily living activities like making food and she’s been starving me. I have a plan to escape. I just need funds to keep me up in a hotel. pls boost.
I left the situation but im sleeping on the street tonight in the middle of Canadian winter. I need enough for an accessible room. I am in dire straits 🥹
YYGEEESS THATS WHAT IM FUCKING TALKING ABOUT!!!!! the natural evolution of the bubble cow. round. all the body mass in the nose. floppa ears. five stars.
If I didn’t remember actually reading this in an actual Calvin and Hobbes book as a child I’d think it was ironically photoshopped like those comics where Mickey Mouse and Goofy talk about how reality is an illusion but this comic strip was actually just……. already………… like that……………
