Just as an aside, I suspect the last line had an implied "/s". If so, I think they really should have included it.

True, as I read back it seems it was sarcasm...very short sighted on my side...

Fiber optic drones are real but the fully autonomous drones others are describing are also real (but less publicized due to the bad PR around killbots)

I don't get even a single ad on that TV Tropes page.

Do you not use an adblocker?

On mobile about half my screen is ads. Love that I get downvoted for not wanting to be bombarded with the enshittified web.

No: you get downvoted for not using an ad-blocker, and then complaining about not using one.

You can do it without logging in too if you use an extension that autoredirects. That's what I do. I use a FF extension called Old Reddit Redirect.

Doesn't work for me. Seems like this login gate for old.reddit is being progressively rolled out.

That is extremely unfortunate. :(

The day I can no longer use Old Reddit is the day I stop using Reddit.

Jesus Christ, $600 for a monitor?

RIP Mitch Hedburg

Love this comment <3

For those of you that are wondering, Mitch Hedburg was a relatively famous stand-up comedian whose special went viral.

In said special was this classic:

“I like an escalator because an escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. There would never be an 'escalator temporarily out of order' sign, only 'escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.’”

RIP indeed.

Something I genuinely don't understand: everyone is saying that with DST, the sun rises later in the day. But as someone who doesn't work first shift and regularly goes to bed anytime between 04:00 and 06:00, I can tell you with certainty that in the summer time (when DST is active), the sun always comes up *way* sooner. I typically despise DST because I always struggle to fall asleep due to the damned sun coming up right as I go to bed.

Meanwhile, in the winter, the sun typically doesn't start to rise until closer to 08:00.

The sun would come up even earlier without dst. It’s just the earth’s tilt that’s causing the sun to come up earlier after spring, nothing we did to the clocks.

So what you're saying is I have it backward. In the summer, without DST, the sun would rise like an hour earlier than with DST.

Is that correct?

Yes. You advance the clock 1 hour. So 06:00 becomes 07:00, so the run rises 1 hour later.

So getting rid of DST makes it 06:00 instead of 07:00

Oh.

Hey, thanks y'all for explaining it to me. :)

You know, not all of us wished for him. Many of us not only saw all this coming from a mile away, but also fought against it every step of the way.

I would not say have pity for everyone, but at least have pity for those incompatible with our cruel society who are nevertheless stuck within it.

It's too late for that excuse now.

It's not an excuse. Many of us saw this coming as far back as 2016, and tried every step of the way to fight against Trump's rise to power.

We are not all monsters. It's as simple as that.

Exactly.

THE COCKROACHES CAN ALREADY SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR.

WHY DO THEY INSIST ON MAKING THEM _STRONGER_?!

You joke, but...