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[–] 120 points 4 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Like so many grammar "rules", this one was caused by one fussy dude who got his panties in a twist about an aspect of language:

    This isn't an example of how modern English is going to the dogs. Less has been used this way for well over a thousand years—nearly as long as there's been a written English language. But for more than 200 years almost every usage writer and English teacher has declared such use to be wrong. The received rule seems to have originated with the critic Robert Baker, who expressed it not as a law but as a matter of personal preference. Somewhere along the way—it's not clear how—his preference was generalized and elevated to an absolute, inviolable rule.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/fewer-vs-less

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's a semi obscure "rule" of zero consequence that carries a false sense of knowledgeable power. Of course fucking pedants love it

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    This image won’t load for me. I just want to know if it’s Stannis Baratheon. Can someone tell me?

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  • [–] 60 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    And photos are more grainy than those i took with my 2005 “smartphone”

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago

    Welcome to 2026, a time when piracy sites continue to receive cease-and-desist letters, but the applications that are being showered with unprecedented investments in the range of fantastrillions are also piracy ventures.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Pirated Software also works much better than legal software. Strike that, pirated Software works, legal software might work?

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    [–] 26 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Given how ubiquitous ad blockers are now, I’m partially convinced that most are just masochists that want to suffer through that shit.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Without uBlock some sites are downright unusable. I dare you to go to weather.com or any fandom.com site with ad blockers, greasemonkey and NoScript deactivated and try not to lunch your monitor

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Even with ublock, since it doesn't stop the cookie banners. I struggle whenever I have to to consult the ASCII table. Why does a website whose whole purpose is to serve a static page of ~1KiB need a cookie banner and ads? Just put a fucking "reject all" button, you don't need to suck in all my data to share with your 849 partners to show me an ASCII table.

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    [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    YouTube just hit me with my first PiP ad, it's a nightmare who the shit came up with this

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    EVEN THIS IS AN AD! FEET! INFINITE FEET HERE! INFINITE FUCKING FEET AD! JUST CLICK MY PROFILE FOR FEET! FEEEEEET! WHEEE! SORRY GOT PUSHED ON A SWO G NOW IM DRUNK FU K FEET FUCK FEET THATS WVAT I FO!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Well it worked, but this was clearly false advertising. There were no feet just disappointment.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    We need Piracy Premium which would be a subscription based service so you don't see piracy ads.

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Hell I saw less ads on limewire

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    You see ads?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    They always did?

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