Sorry for the confusion … but I was referring to Pornhub and Youtube … both platforms that do nothing but host yet receive all or most of the revenue for all the activity, performances and creativity of everyone who posts anything on those platforms. They are both like Ticketmaster, they do very little for anyone in the equation, they don’t create, they don’t perform, they don’t provide support, they just guide audiences to the performance, yet receive the majority of the benefit of the transaction.

Ah yes … the Ticketmaster marketing platform … get other people to create, maintain and pay for the venue, become the middle man and make audiences pay you to see the performers.

Are you sure you’re in the shower? … or at a rowdy German Octoberfest and covered in urine?

I’m taking a bit of time out for myself for the next little while … I’ve had some family loss that was very close to me and I’m taking time doing other things at the moment … it’s not anything or anyone that happened here on Lemmy or Piefed (they’re all great communities) … my life has just made a drastic change right now and I need to take care of myself for a while … I’ll be back later on but for the time being, I won’t be around much if at all.

I still love this space and everyone in it … I just need to take some time for myself right now.

During the worst of the fighting in WWII, allied ships when they could still took the time to pick up and rescue enemy sailors in the water.

So I guess, unless you are able to give a Nazi war salute to the German Fuhrer, you might have a chance of being rescued.

Are you kidding … my best hope is the American people because they are the ones who can change this at any time … but none of them so so it means that there is no hope … in 2026, 2028 or any other year, until the American mentality changes.

Generally the fediverse on lemmy, piefed and mastodon for me … lots more out there and it’s fun to explore new branches and directions of the fediverse and the communities of people they attract.

It’s daunting, challenging, confusing and complex … but that’s the beauty of it … it feels like wandering around and exploring the early social media internet from the early 2000s and this strange feeling that its going to become a whole lot more as time goes on.

Gives cat a present … cat swats it away

There are still plenty of websites and even news websites that either avoid this or break reader mode to prevent people from using it.

If all you want is to read 5000 words of something you were looking for … just display those 5000 words and nothing else.

We don’t need graphics, pictures, images, blocking, ads, pop-ups, videos or any other suggestions … just give us the content, it’s all we want sometimes.

Neither did Joseph

Depending on which group you ask … He is also his own father

So God gave her an Immaculate Conception … and Gabriel gave her a golden shower?

I’m Indigenous Canadian … 100% Ojibway on all sides of my family

As soon as I saw the first movie, I knew immediately it was just cultural appropriation … the blue space smurfs are modeled around jungle tribes … then their fighting is reminiscent of western Native tribes like the Apache, Comanche and Navajo … the war tribes are also modeled around African tribes … then all their spiritual stuff is weird space version of native mysticism from many Native cultures around the world

It wouldn’t have been so bad if they had left it like that … but the worst part is that they portray the Natives as being naive, childlike, simplistic beings who are incapable of defending themselves … so the story needs a white saviour who takes on the suit of one of the Natives … essentially, the Natives are too dumb to save themselves so they need one of the white colonizers to save them.

And we also have to feel empathy and sympathy for the white saviour who tried to save the natives … even though he volunteered for the mission and it was his people who wanted to kill them all.

As an indigenous person I’ve absolutely hated avatar because its cultural appropriation disguised as a space opera … love the cgi and effects but not the writing … probably better to watch it on mute.

Happy to discover that many people see it the same way and refer to it as …

DANCES WITH SMURFS

lol … I had this kind of argument with my wife for years.

She kept buying the smallest bottles of dish washing liquid for years … if it was smaller, to her it was much cheaper. I kept telling her that the price for the small bottle was more expensive per liter of liquid compared to buying it all in bulk.

I kept telling her that if you just bought one giant bottle for the best price when it went on sale, you’d end up buying more liquid and saving money over time. I’d buy a big huge bottle every year or so and it would last us months, then she’d revert to buying small bottles again.

Eventually, she realized that it was cheaper in the long run to buying big bottles … mostly because when you bought one giant bottle, you’d forget the problem altogether for about six months or even a year.

It’s a code of honour at this point … no one uses A: in respect for all those drives that died for our sins

It’s more like …

“Merry Chr…”

“What are you doing? It’s Easter”

Both cats have the same plan

Kill Doug … kill the other cat … kill the two legged beast that invades this space during the day.

This is just another daily reminder of this quote …

“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich”

I remember reading years ago as well that there is more than enough food and water to make every living human comfortable and fed … Africa alone could be able to self sustain itself by producing its own food and providing clean water for every person the continent if all its resources and services were organized in the most efficient way - instead the finances of African nations is organized in such a way that they spend more on paying for debts and selling all their resources to first world nations.

In this day in age, with the amount of knowledge, technology and ability we have on the planet … every living human should have proper drinking water and they should have all the food they need … there should be no excuse for anyone any where to be starving or lacking water.

The fact that there are starving people in the world means that we all accept a world where thousands and even millions go without.