Speaking of France, the last use of the guillotine for an execution was in 1977. There are probably people reading this who were alive when it happened – it’s not too late to bring it back.

Make Tyrants Fear Guillotines Again!

Honestly, I’d say this depends more on the narration than the content. A good narrator can make any topic interesting, a great narrator can do that and make it soothing enough to fall asleep to.

Just start swearing at it and it will usually connect you, the nastier the better.

Compromise, then?

Perhaps every other night you can cook from scratch, and cook as she likes on other days. Or, you could try to replicate the flavors she’s looking for in your cooking. Involve her, have her try tasting some sauce you’re making or whathaveyou and then try to see if you can nudge the flavors in a direction she likes.

When you dance down the street like you’ve had too much wFEET you’re in loooooove

I raise you a pre-2010 meme supercut. That was originally delivered in a flash game, the most 2010 form of content.

Why do you assume that’s the end goal? Pretty sure their goal is to get paid.

… and they get paid by…

people using their website. More specifically viewing ads while using their website. The kicker is (and I thought I explained this), the more obtrusive they make their ads, the more people use an ad blocker, and the less people will see their ads. I thought I covered that well enough, but apparently not for you.

But since they have to have a website they need to figure out a way to make some money or they’re going to get laid off.

If they can’t figure out how to make money without their website being obnoxious and nigh-unusable, then indeed perhaps it’s time they found a new line of work, methinks.

Well if we’re all having this attitude, then why should anyone care about your preferences for no ads?

Did I ever claim that anyone cared about my preferences? It’s pretty obvious from the fact I said “most sites seem to double down”, that I acknowledge most websites already don’t give a shit and would rather squeeze as much as possible from the few people not running ad blockers than make the web a better and more usable place for everyone. They very clearly do not care about that, which is very amusing to me, as it means ad-blocking software will continue to improve and outpace shit web developers, as it’s so popular and needed. Which sucks for them, that they’re shooting themselves in the foot.

Ya followin’ me, sport?

This is exactly why I choose to persevere with ad-blocking addons and make their website work the way I want it to without dumb bullshit getting in my way. :D

If you want people to use your website, make your website usable with unobtrusive ads or I’ll make it usable for me, and you won’t see a dime of ad revenue. Unfortunately, most sites seem to just double down (which doesn’t work because it just makes ad-blocking even more necessary and popular). Sucks for them.

NoScript tends to break more things on the page than is desired, in my experience, I used to use it but eventually I got rid of it because of the hassle of “is this the one I should add an exception for to make it work? No. How about this one?” repeat until you figure it out, and then repeat the whole process for every website you ever use

Using AdNauseam’s built-in uBlock, I can use its element picker if something is particularly stubborn

Don’t get me wrong, I like NoScript as a concept and think it should exist for the subset of users who want that functionality, but it’s not for me.

Get PopUpOFF and AdNauseam. Don’t just back down without a fight. If I need to read an article to find some information I am going to read it, dumb bullshit be damned, even if I have to break half your site to do so. I’ve even been spiteful enough to hack away at the page with inspect element if it still manages to get past those add-ons.

Something about being allergic to cats makes cats really, really like you for some reason. No bullshit, literally 10-15 minutes ago I was carrying groceries inside and a neighborhood cat randomly walked right up to my front step and started rubbing itself on me while my dogs barked like mad out the glass door.

and yes I sat down and pet the cat for a bit. I dunno how true this is for other people with cat allergies, but I only really have trouble with them in enclosed spaces, homes with indoor cats just suuuuuck to breathe in.

Try Oculus, 1408, and Session 9.

Everyone likes a good mindfuck horror now and then.

Also has allergen warnings.

You’d be shocked how much candy that doesn’t contain nuts, might contain enough to kill someone with a severe allergy. Half my halloween candy when I was a kid, every year, would end up going to my mother for that exact reason.

actually I’m allergic to peanuts and treenuts, so a Snickers would probably only expedite my exit (can’t eat them due to allergy warnings)

literally just trying to stay alive until my mother passes away, just so she doesn’t have to bury a child. Then it can finally be over.

Like, I got personal reasons I think life sucks, but boy howdy I have no shortage of “big picture” reasons too. The future is bleak, at best.

my personal favorite:

although, the scenery one is pretty good, too

You know it was free to not post this, right? It would’ve cost you nothing to simply carry on with your day.

And yet here we are.

SIGTERM: stop that.

SIGKILL: That was not a request.

Case power button: listen here you little shit

“oh no, the vegans are leaving!” said no-one ever

I’m still in the process of letting mine die (hope is a stubborn thing), but sometimes you need to accept your lot in life. Not everyone gets to do everything they want to.

now, I just don’t know what else to dream for instead. As it is, I’m just existing and waiting to die.