THE NEW Miscellaneous Talk That Doesn't Deserve A New Thread Thread Thread (Part 2)

[blackjacksike (Weird FNAF cat)]

Yesterday, YouTube started this annoying popup window to tell me to deactivate my adblocker (uBlock Origin). It doesn’t stop me from closing the window, though. But still, it’s annoying.

[50gens]

if there is an ad at the beginning of a video, you can click another video on the right. it would have an ad on the beginning as well, but when you go back to the previous page, the video would start without an ad

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

Every time that happens (it happens a lot) it’s fixed within a day. If it isn’t you could reload stuff or wait or, uh, switch to Firefox. On chromium it sometimes works weird I think.

Also, uh, happy solstice !!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I think it’s too late now to make such large changes to how reproduction works.

[hhyyrylainen]

If anyone missed the Thrivestream, here it is as a VOD:

The Thrive Podcast - Episode 36: Planet Gen Talk

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Why were people bringing up brainrot items in the chat…

[Nie ([ɲɛ] | 🇵🇱 | depression sucks, ocd sucks, and I have switched from medikinet to atenza :D)]

@Elrakrez

And these measures will stay in place until covid is eradicated or adequate measures to prevent long term effects such as long-covid, and brain damage are developed?

Given the unpredictability of when COVID-19 will be eradicated or the adequate measures described above will be developed, our protective practices (assuming that’s what you’re referring to) are likely going to stay indefinitely. TBH, at this point, even if COVID-19 was eradicated, I think I would continue doing stuff like cleaning groceries. The idea of putting dirty things, that were standing on dirty store shelves, free to be sneezed at, coughed at and touched by the long-unwashed hands of hundreds, if not thousands of people, any of whom could be transmitting a dangerous illness with the potential to completely wreck my life, into cupboards, without prior cleaning, is simply disgusting to me now.

@Deathwake

we obviously need to normalize wearing masks, as in, just treat it as a normal thing. Assume folks are sick or have lung issues and just move on with your day. If most sick folks wear masks, it’ll slow down most diseases.

Couldn’t agree more. On a side note: I, personally, had several negative encounters with anti-maskers who decided to loudly criticise my mask-wearing choices completely unprompted.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Is mr42’s name a reference to that one thing in h2g2?

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

@Nie

On a side note: I, personally, had several negative encounters with anti-maskers who decided to loudly criticise my mask-wearing choices completely unprompted.

I hope this was your only negative experience with anti-maskers. It is unfortunate that some people take their tribalism way too far.

@Deathwake

we obviously need to normalize wearing masks, as in, just treat it as a normal thing.

I concur. From my own person experience with allergies, I am surprised that I did not wear a mask more often earlier. It really helps! Ragweed pollen is absolutely terrible.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What is an “Arthropleura”?

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Arthropleura

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Why would such a thing want to hug people?

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

It just wants to be friendly. And it is lonely, like me.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Does your vanity name suggest that… YOU are an arthropleura?

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

@AnthropocenianAge

Ragweed pollen is absolutely terrible.

Makes sense masks would help, I haven’t really done much on purpose about ragweed, but I might try that if I’m all allergied up.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Time for a release poll…

When do you think will Thrive 7.0.0 (THE full release) be released?

• Early 2030s
• Late 2030s
• Early 2040s
• Late 2040s
• Early 2050s
• Late 2050s
• Even Later

[Bolsadesupermer123 (Bolsa)]

I was obsessed with these critters back when I was more into prehistoric animals, I think that’s when I learned that not all extinct species are dinosaurs.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

You mean those specific arthropods or carboniferous arthropods as a whole?

[Bolsadesupermer123 (Bolsa)]

Yeah, that specific giant guy in particular. Then I started to get more interesting in other periods of Earth’s history

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

How did you find out about this one?