@mel_the_author Not an outlier.

@ToolPackinMama Although over the long haul I agree with the position that usage drives meaning, it sticks in my craw that a large number of people making a common usage mistake can change it not to be a mistake.

Case in point - irregardless. Years of being taught "not a word; double negative " makes acceptance hard to swallow. "It isn't preferred, and is 'redundant' "say current linguists.

<Shaking my fist at the sky>

@ToolPackinMama "Official " definition is equally contradictory.

Take a stand Merriam-Webster. Pick a lane.

@TheBigWu @AskTheDevil @LnzyHou That was when we were about ten BTW. Her daughter, friends mother, fussed a bit but grandma was adamant she needed that gun with her. (She was in a group of about ten other people; not roaming the mean streets alone.)

@TheBigWu @AskTheDevil @LnzyHou A friend's grandmother damn near shot one of us when a 38 she kept in her purse fell out and went off!

This old lady could no more find that gun, pull it, and shoot it in time to thwart any attacker. It was far more likely they would just steal the gun. ORRR, she would overreact and shoot at some noise. ORRR, an accidental shooting like the one we escaped.

We laughed it off until thinking it through.

Roseated spoonbills right in our suburban park. I see herons and egrets all the time, but this splash of color is new for a subdivision park.

@gemswinc @holon42 Yeah, I think it depends on the content more than the ad. You have to suffer through more for content considered higher value.

Random content I search, like How to videos, seem to show ads periodically but you can skip them after.a few second

@cassandra17lina It's a stupid gimmick to trick people who don't think it through.

How about lower tax for all low income in general rather than a stupid gimmick just for s we servers?

Yeah, I also think it turns into another way to cut taxes for C-suite officers. Redefine earnings to make perqs "tips" and most compensation as "overtime. "

#poliitics
Didn't know I needed Dave Bautista's political assessment but I did

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBOqQmAPA4C/

@Jeber @holon42 @gemswinc Mainly it is for no ads.

There used to be Premium content as well. (Cobra Kai started as a YouTube Premium series.) But the premium content was never great and now is gone.

I think you get YouTube Music as well with it?

@gemswinc @holon42 You can skip the ad after a short time if you watch for the link in bottom right.

Sometimes you have to sit through the beginning of more than one though.

@AskTheDevil @TheBigWu @LnzyHou The stat that opened my eyes over 20 years ago was that you are FOUR TIMES more likely to have your gun used on someone in your house than to have it used to protect yourself or thwart a crime.

Neither are likely, but guns as a deterrent is more myth than anything else. Nobody likes to think of that comparative increased danger of accidents, suicide, domestic violence. What might have been a fight turns into a murder.

@holon42 @gemswinc I rarely use it other than looking up something specific. But it is probably a strategy to get more to pay for Premium.

I had Premium on a four month trial. I can't justify the cost as little as I use YouTube. $14 a month is too much. Maybe if it was $5?

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Lewis Black on "undecided " voters
#politics
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBM40A8SaWo/

@TheBigWu @LnzyHou I start light though, with dripping sarcasm about not being as smart as they are to know all these "facts."

@TheBigWu @LnzyHou Not for me.

My promises end with "Don't start nothin; won't be nothing."

Blasted my brother-in-law with both barrels when he started on some stupid trope he came across in his RW internet echo chamber. (This was some stupid crap about how Australia weapons laws actually increased crime. Debunked YEARS ago yet they keep recycling it online.)

@Gladari @KazzyH @LnzyHou @rpardee All the way down to dog catcher.

Used to be Independent. Voted for Pubs and Dems every election. Probably leaned Dem 60% over time. 2016 changed everything. Failures of every Pub in Congress to do anything meaningful after 2016 sealed the deal.

@DavidSalo Triggered by memory of Van Jones. " On this day he became president."

SMDH