Houseplants. I feel like they are slowly disappearing. My grandma has plants in nearly every window, but us younger folk would rather have a Displate with a picture if a plant instead if an actual plant.

Yes

So can’t I, what’s your point?

Jane (Krysten Ritter) from Breaking Bad. Because… just look at her.

I’m on the 4th book but finished the series. How does she have any red flags? Given what she’s been through and her profession, she seems to be fairly well composed individual. Great friend and always kind to the people important to her. It’s like dating a trucker, them not being around often and being somewhat detached comes with the territory of their profession.

Yes. The way it works now is:

• Play video until ad timestamp
• Pause video and fetch ad from ad server
• Play ad
• Resume video

But presumably with the new system, your computer will just receive a continuous bitstream with ads embedded in them. What was previously happening on your machine through HTML or JavaScript and was detectable by ad blockers, will now happen on YouTube servers beholind the scenes.

The whole point of having ads be separate from the video is for youtube to easily distance itself from malicious ads. If an ad is malicious it can easily be reported and taken out of commission. But if ads are now part of the video, what stops an ad from being an ISIS beheading clip in the middle of a video made for children? If there is still a way to still report it, then there is a way to recognize the ad.

Also how will this interfere with creators? Editing a video and giving it a proper pace is already a huge challenge. But now ads can just be automaticaly cut into it without the creators control? That’s gonna fuck up so many quality channels. That’s already a big problem with the current system, bit at least you can skip or block them.

Amen

Youtube Shorts give me Brainrot but I can’t stop watching them. I don’t know what they did to the algorithm, but it perfectly captures my attention.

• Evangelion, sort of.
• Tom and Jerry
• Metal Gear Solid 3

Let not forget that any of those choices would make you instantly and legaly rich, except maybe for super speed since that is a purely physical trait.

The speed restriction on flight is way to harsh for it to be useful. You basically have the ability to fly but are still going to be late for work.

Superspeed is neat, but there are too many unknown factors to this power. Are you immune to damage while running or will hitting a single fly at almost Mach 1 kill you? What about agility, do you have inertia or can you turn or stop on a dime? Do you move normaly while everything else is in slow motion, or do you have to react to things coming at you at Mach 1 in real time? Do you have to consume an insane amount of calories to speed up or is it just magic? Can you still breath normally or will the air rushing past you nostrils make your lungs collapse? This power justbseems to be and accident waiting to happen.

Invisibility is solid. As side from the obvious pervy things you can do, you could be an insanely good journalist. Exposing corporate or goverment fraud by basically being a fly on the wall in closed door meetings. But since no light is hitting your retinas when you are invisible, you would be essentially blind during invisibility. This curbs this power a lot.

Telekinesis is the obvious choice. 2 tons is a lot of weight to lift. And there are no restrictions on how many or how small the things you can manipulate can be. You could be the worlds best mechanic. Taking apart an engine by turning all the screws simultaneously, exploding it into all components, replacing the broken one and putting it all together withing seconds. And this is only one of the many things you could do, to make use of your power. Basically any physical labor or craftsmanship you could do better, safer, faster and cheaper than anyone else. Not even counting the self serving advantages.

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Pagani Huayra, theres something outerworldy in having adaptive aerodynamics (air brakes) on the hood were they can be seen while driving.