No snark intended, but is there a way to avoid the autoplay videos from these sites? I have the sites whitelisted and really don’t mind static ads, but getting rid of autoplay videos would be nice.

No. Just, no.

basic white people like us

Are you guys just doing a series of articles telling us not to buy what you have told us to buy all year? I fell for it with your anti-Alexa article because security issues are a real thing, but now I’m onto your reverse psychology articles.

I don’t see that.

Acknowledgment of complicity / guilt can be a dodge in place of meaningful action, or it can be a first step followed by meaningful action. It’s the meaningful action that tells you something about the sincerity and intentions.

Wait, I think I get it. Calling yourself trash is how men deal with the fact that they actually like patriarchy and misogyny because it benefits them. So they show shame and that covers up for the fact that they still want dominance. If you say “I’m trash” and do a little performative feminism, you can avoid changing…

What I like to do is calculate the amount of fuel that an idling engine would use, then work out whether the fuel required to make up for the decelerative forces produced by remaining in gear would be more or less than the former value at that moment in time, continuously evaluate the two, and then not give a…