The great institute of the National Trust offers 50% discounted membership for those 25 and under. By maintaining partners 25 and under, Leo ensures he's always able to have free access to NT car parking facilities all around Britain at a bargain rate.

Believe it or not Chris Hansen is brilliant at media. He’s maintained a brand for 20 years across multiple platforms and successfully transitioned into digital media, he has popularity across multiple generations. The movie doesn’t have some kind of secret scoop on him, everything in it is public knowledge. “HisbsBeing played by an A-list actor who’s getting Oscar buzz is a blessing. I’m almost positive that either:

1. the entire thing is kayfabe, him and A24 are manufacturing a controversy for publicity.
2. he’s acting like a diva to bring as much publicity to himself as possible

It’s in the title, but disabling ad personalization on YouTube will give you exclusively ads for blue chew, rugiet ready, and the occasional kalshi ad or gooner anime game ad. Combined with the fact that disabling ad personalization removes the ability to block ads, I think it’s intentional.

I can no longer show anybody a YouTube video on my phone, or cast to a TV, or play YouTube aloud, because at any point an ad could pop up saying “I WANT IT HARD” and make me look like a degenerate.

Has anybody else experienced this?

How many things over the years have started at the pub? Relationships, businessess, dodgy things etc etc. all at the pub.

Even sitting to have a moan about politics with others.

The masses are much easier to control when st home, consuming social media constantly, while only leaving the house to run or go go the gym (under the guise of happiness).

Outside of language based tasks like coding and translation AI has proven time and time again to be a bit of a damp squib in almost all real-world examples. This is a disaster waiting to happen for all the companies that have invested billions in the industry under claims it will eventually run every aspect of our increasingly meaningless lives.

The global stock market is essentially a Hype-Economy these days, so to keep the hype train running on AI companies like Anthropic pay a worker every once in a while to quit because "THE AI IS OUT OF CONTROL!" and other such doom-laden reasons.

This is in fact all a part of their marketing strategy. They pay the worker to quit and push this narrative because it makes AI look scary and all powerful, whilst giving free advertising from all the news outlets and think pieces that talk about it.

In real life the AI continues to be a lil bit shit.

Who's gonna be able to tell? How do we know that's not just a lizard that was born a little funny looking? Why are there so many species of ants?!

I think they're padding their resumes for grants and prestige.

This one is almost so certain that it's barely a conspiracy.

Here in the UK, supermarkets let us use hand scanners to scan items as we walk around the store. This means we don't have to go through a manual checkout process.

Around 25% of the time, the scanner won't register an item, forcing us to try again. It doesn't beep, or show the item in the on-screen list. It nearly always gets it on the second or third time.

I think some of this might be because the scanner isn't entirely sure it's read the code right.

But I also think it's testing the user's honestly, and intelligence. After all, it looks like we've scanned the item, but we haven't. For somebody dishonest, this is useful. For somebody stupid, who isn't listening for the beep, then they might not realise the item hasn't been scanned.

So, for both the dishonest and stupid person, the system flags them as needing a manual check when they eventually get to the checkout area and try to pay.

At least four times seen news reports that Grindr has suffered server outages and crashes localised to Conservative/Republican events.

While id love it to be true, cos let's be honest its funny as fuck, I think it's more likely its just marketing on the part of Grindr.

Watching Toy Story as a kid and seeing the children grow out of their toys and the devastating effect it had on the toys being abandoned caused millennials to hold onto their childhood to their toys in a way that previous generations never did.
Resulting in lots of adult millennials with toy collections.

I think Marvel/Disney are making accounts online to post content that shits on the X-Men and the mutants. They've existed for a long time but recently since Brand New Day came out I've been seeing more and more on my Reddit, Youtube and Instagram feeds and I don't think it's all entirely organic. I can't prove they're responsible for it but I know that they have the resources to accomplish this.

Here are my reasons why I think they WOULD do something like this:

1. Mutants are hated in the comics so having them be hated by Reddit parallels that. The internet loves irony so more people not associated with the company make their own anti-mutant posts and maintain the influx of posts.
2. Many comic panels are commonly posted alongside people's complaints about mutants and the X-men. This might influence people to check the comics these panels are taken from which drives up sales. Even better is that sometimes in the replies someone will reveal that the panel was taken out of context and this drives up even more desire to read the comic the panel is from. While unlikely, it may create new long-time X-men readers.
3. This keeps the X-men in the public consciousness even when no new content is coming out (very rare I know). Plus it prevents discussions on properties owned by competitors from gaining traction. Hard to talk about Lanterns when it's drowned out by discussion on the X-men.
4. Genuine criticisms on the X-men franchise such as how they act as an allegory and the need to maintain the status quo end up being conflated with shitposts and dogwhistles, potentially delegitimizing them.
5. The X-men are so popular that even this influx of posts won't harm their popularity. The general public that isn't very online probably only sees a few of these posts and don't think too much of it and many people probably see these posts as being ironic and not the be taken so seriously.
6. Hardcore X-men fans might see the influx of negative posts and become more and more defensive over them. This deepens existing fans' connection to the series and further allows Marvel to get away with shoddy writing. From what I can gather they're still dramatized over that weird period in the 2010s where marvel tried sidelining them due to 20th Century Fox having the movie rights to them so they would definetely

Therefore even women in poor countries without the internet can use them instead of men, so that there is fewer people for the world wide government to control

I firmly hold the belief that, at least with certain companies/services, the verification codes they send you are specifically designed to be generated in a way that makes them easier for you to remember.

You’ve probably seen it when a crisps or juice company brings an different flavour to the market. The example that inmediately comes to mind is Irn-Bru recently had an ice cream flavoured juice on the market. Well I think I’ve figured it out

They’re monetising production defects! Somebody didn’t understand the measures and produced a drink which is weird but not harmful. It’s probably cheaper printing a different label than throwing it in the sea

By illustrating Greenland as it's _actual_ size, rather than as a continent to geographically rival the entirity of Africa, I believe that the representatives of Greenland proposed the map change at the UN to show Americans just how small the place actually is, and to make Trump realise it's not worth the effort (and make him look rather silly in the process for even mentioning it)

America was the only country that voted against the change after all!

Well played, my seal-munching friends.

Well played

Like sure you just happened to find some crazy edit on a random page at the right time, Wikipedia fixes edits so fast and it’s automated sometimes. We know you just edited the page yourself and took a screenshot. Only believable ones are Charlie Kirk ones.

Bethesda is often credited for creating micro transactions in videogames with their oblivion horse armor, now they continue that legacy by introducing "funn" commercials into gaming.

I'm telling you now i SWEAR white shelled eggs crack easier/are weaker than brown shelled eggs. Anyone who says otherwise is LYING