I find Duolingo far too parasocial. Their "come back to the lessons" mails and stuff really knocked me off.

Did you not see the foot in the store showmodel?

Art imitates life. Before television, rumors were the way people heard about things. Before newspaper people would know of stuff happening in other place by word-to-mouth.

And the time we have to put in that effort. Seeing those messages want me to block them even more and if they block me, then it's a challenge to unblock it.

You guys don't have an indicator near the door handle?? It's super common in the Netherlands. Almost every toilet has a small indicator, except for maybe some old doors the owners didn't replace, but all else always shows if it's occupied or not (not that people won't try anyway even if red for occupied).

I got 2 15 second ads for a clip of 30 seconds that wasn't even their own content. No thank you.

This is not even tipping anymore. This is paying to get normal service, not better service.

We had it, then the corporate greed came in. But hey Netflix subscribers have risen again.....fun...

Yes but at the same time. The exact same people were also supported by other countries. What did they do with that support? They made weapons from them. New waterpipes? New attack rocket.

Don't forget Hamas attacked first during a ceasefire. That truce is only a preparation for worse.

In other words, the general population likes to be used by companies and really don't give a shit as long as they can watch videos.

A big problem with this is that if someone is goodwilled and sells their own adapter on eBay for cheap. Someone else would buy it to sell it at the 250,- price for profit.