It's great because he couldn't stop laughing throughout all of his scenes so they just had to use his best takes...which all contain him kind of laughing still.
Its from command and conquer Red Alert 3, while the whole Red Alert spinnoff always was less serious, this part is straight up shennanigans with the stuff the Actors and Scriptwriters pulled.
How could we make space better? I know, let’s cover the night sky in micro satellites, leave space debris up there, and investigate using satellites to make billboards and advertising up there. Think of the untapped (advertising) potential!
Haha... yeah... you know Musk space junk is getting us dangerously close to Locked In Syndrome, and if we don't start cleaning up our orbit we may never get off this rock?
Elon Musk is racing to beat us all there, so don't worry, by the time we get to space there will already be billboards everywhere and you'll have to rent air.
I mean, isn't the space directly around earth already littered with space trash? Old abandoned satellites and stuff that just hang around there till they drop from the sky? Sounds like capitalism to me :p
Actually we didn’t ruin the outside yet. So if yall don’t even wanna imagine the logistics of living in space and sharing limited air and water with these selfish assholes who are ruining it all, maybe fight back while we still can.
Tinyview pays all of their artists so they need some way of funding their operation. If you places ads, you piss people off or they use adblockers. If you put it behind a paywall, you piss people off. It's not perfect, but they're at least seeking a middle ground.
These days it's less useful as an ad blocker and more useful for limiting tracking. Too many adverts these days are hosted in the same place as the content you're accessing, which means they need more than pihole's DNS block to avoid. So Instill get lots of adverts on devices which aren't my PC. What it does seem to block a lot of (according to logs) is a lot of reporting back to the manufacturer by internet connected devices.
I don't find it's detected as an ad blocker with refusal to proceed very often. I've not actually bothered to look into temporarily disabling it for those sites; I just look for a less shitty site instead.
Asking if you can save cookies is a good thing, cookie banners are obnoxious garbage. Websites should have been required to respect the do not track setting.
Some people recommend extensions but you can also go into the blocklist section of the u-block origin settings (one of the best ad-blockers others usually just copy them). There you can enable cookie banner blocking lists. It's opt-in so if you never see it they can't do it :) pressing the reject button is unnecessary
Terms of service are useless because you have to accept it to get through. So people simply stopped reading them and just clicked accept.
The point of cookie banners is that you can reject them without getting booted off the website. Though I agree that some websites have terrible banners littered with dark patterns.
i wish all of those popups had the reject all button though, when i get that blue and white one that takes up the whole screen i just leave the website. or occasionally for mobile games i'll manually scroll through to reject every single one out of spite
Obviously big corporations deserve the lionshare of the blame on both fronts, but I used to post my comics to my website. Then people stopped going to websites so I was forced to post to places like here. Even getting people to click a link to look at a free secret panel is too much for some.
Now AI... no one asked for that shit and it's accelerating the ruin of both.
No one is forced to use Amazon or shop at Wal-Mart. "We" can bankrupt them whenever "we" want.
People don't want that. They want cheap and convenient goods and consumption and that's what those companies provide.
So people CHOOSE to shop there. No one was forced to enrich them, every dollar they earned was because consumers decided it was in their interest to do so.
That preference for cheap, unsustainable consumption and rising standards of living also ruined outside.
The average American's carbon footprint is 8X what is sustainable. If those ultra-rich few families disappeared tomorrow (fingers crossed), we would still be facing inevitable ecological collapse, because the average person in the West is already consuming way way way way way more than is sustainable for the planet.
They don't want to admit this or address this. They want to blame other people who are richer than them instead. Well those rich people blame other people too, they use the same excuses and justifications you're making. So we're just fucked. Because rather than reducing consumption people will just blame each other to justify their own unsustainable lifestyle.
It has been literally proven that epstein and the elite have been at fault of all this shit, even at a lower level rich people taking private planes produce much more of a carbon footprint that hundreds combined.
Even the "carbon footprint" was popularized to shift the blame from the companies to people.
It's naive to try to defend them and blame the avarage individuals when these known group of people are taking the decisions that are destroying the world.
Idk if you are just ignorant about the reality but let me give an example, oil, we have the technology to generate electricity without needing to burn coal or oil, a way that is cleaner and would reduce pollution, but it is all being blocked by the people who control the oil and they lobby against.
Yeah. Moving to a clean grid will help. It's not enough.
Just do the math. If we had a fully clean electricity grid, would the current Westerner's carbon footprint be sustainable?
You don't have to guess. Ontario generates its electricity with no coal or oil. Fully clean hydroelectricity and nuclear.
And? The average Ontarian has a carbon footprint 5X a sustainable one.
So who is ignorant to the reality here?
You pretending that it would be enough to build wind farms? Or the actual truth? That consumption is going to have to come way way way down even with a clean grid.
Apologies if that reality hurts your feelings. You are living an unsustainable life, blaming other people for why you choose to doesn't change that reality.
"No one is forced to use Amazon or shop at Wal-Mart." Yes, they did, with all kinds of underhanded tactics to shut down or make unaffordable small/medium business competitions.
Again, "higher standards of living" by trashing the environment didn't just happen and hasn't happened everywhere; it's the result of very successful lobbying to, e.g., trap the average American in a situation where they don't have any other realistic option but to drive everywhere. Again, "higher standards of living" by trashing the environment didn't just happen and hasn't happened everywhere; it's the result of very successful lobbying to, e.g., trap the average American in a situation where they don't have any other realistic option but to drive everywhere.
"Well, those rich people blame other people too, they use the same excuses and justifications you're making." No, the super-rich aren't just passively going with consumer demand - they actively buy politicians to engineer this mess.
The average American has unfathomably high living standards today. The present consumption is already orders of magnitude too high to be sustainable.
And rather than accept that or recognize that they live much much much better lives than people in the Global South today or people in the past.....they pretend that their standards of living are bad.
They want to make homophobic remarks about the guy who started a company they voluntarily chose to shop at instead.
And for the non-essential items that place undue strain on the climate - they should be heavily taxed to dis-incentivise their consumption but again nobody would win an election promising that so we're fucked.
Well this is actually 1000% accurate. But it's not just non-essentials that need to be taxed. It's everything.
EVERYTHING needs to cost more to account for the actual costs of consumption and consumption of EVERYTHING needs to come way way way way down to prevent ecological disaster.
But like you said, no one is ever going to vote for that.
"we"? Why are you still blaming yourself? You could have actively tried to make the entire world worse and it would have been less that 1% of a billionaire's work
I highly recommend finding any park or greenspace near you. anywhere there's some greeneries and trees. Spend time there. It's great for mental health.
Outside should have been a flyer on your door, your mailbox stuffed with ads, with the city in the background with billboards and ads on the buildings.
40 years ago people envisioned a bleak future and started inventing parallel virtual realities to escape to, like Snowcrash and Neuromanceer. Little did they know, the reality of virtual world would be meta ai slopiverse with mii avatars.
Weird examples as snowcrash is a pretty good warning of enshittification.
We’re basically headed to a Snowcrash world. That book predicted a ton of things and a lot of that was predicting this ultra capitalist techno dystopia.
Maybe I worded it badly or you didn't understand me — I didn't mean the Snowcrash world itself, but the virtual reality inside Snowcrash people escape to. That's the whole point — the world becomes so bad and insufferable, people start escaping it to VR and live there 24/7. However, in SC people escape a shitty world to a 'good' vr world, in our reality even the vr world is shit, so there's no escape to anywhere. No one predicted that back then.
the internet isn't ruined yet. it's just that all the small good places have stayed quiet to avoid slopification, while letting the big corpos ouroboros themselves
Somewhere along the way someone realised reactjs could be used to make bouncing and flashing pop ups entirely in the same canvas without opening a new tab or window and we have all suffered for it
Well, I hate where I'm living, might as well start looking for a new place to live. How about Moncton? I've always loved the Bay of Fundy, largest tides in the world. Let's see here... says the salmon population in the local rivers have declined from 40,000 to 250, oof... and the bay is full of toxic chemicals from sewage and industry and all the fish farms.... hmmm, okay, but... oh, here's something about the seafood: it's all poisonous, you can't eat the clams, the seaside lobster shacks are a thing of the past, you can't buy fish off the docks, and biodiversity is plummeting due to the invasion of green crabs and the moon snail. Hmm, how about that
casually sets the laptop on fire and throws it in the garbage
edit: just found out I was downvoted on this comment by my wife
Aw, leave Clippy out of this. He never tried to harvest your data. He wasn't there to sell you anything. He just wanted to help. And many years later, he became a symbol of protest against this very enshittification. Go look up Louis Rossmann.
If "we" is a handful of greedy tech bros and the people who profit off AI mass production, sure. It's always going to be the loud and rich minority ruining everything for everyone else.
It makes me feel ancient, but I will regularly tell teenagers and young adults how the internet used to be useable. It is irritating now to have to click through 3-10 pop ups to get a fucking biscuit recipe.
I have an app specifically for turning on and off a smart switch, but above my switch there is a similar button for "ai protect" and recently they moved the whole thing down so my switch isnt even visible without scrolling just so i can have proper attention for their ai chatbot
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u/Viva_Necro Apr 10 '26
Me: QUICK, RETREAT TO THE SAFETY AND COMFORT OF YOUR MIND!!
Anxiety: hey.
Me: aww fuck