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  • Going to STRONGLY disagree with Now You See Me unless you have a room temperature IQ. It's a heist movie for idiots.

  • "Grifter Who Was Grifted Pivots from Original Grift to New Grift"

    This article brought to you by the Pants-Shittingly Stupid Individuals Coalition.

  • Hey now, that's unfair; people think more than 2 months ahead!

    They think 3 months ahead, correlating with the next Quarterly report.

  • I think I first saw this post in 2018.

  • It's not even an actual twitter link. It's a relink site specifically for people that don't want to use twitter. Maybe dial it down a bit there, chicken little?

  • Lol. He already deleted his comment

  • You can go ahead and delete the first link and the quotes from the article.

    No one; and I mean NO ONE wants to read an article about a 10 second video rather than just watching the video themselves. Completely fucking worthless.

  • Is this not just a slotted one-way with a BMW logo?

  • Move along home!

  • Lazy ass parents not bothering to update the believability of Santa Claus. Just say there are multiple Santa's all around the globe that work together. That's why Santa sometimes looks different when you see him at different places. That's why there can be a Black Santa, or Asian Santa.

  • Oh FUCK! It's 2 weeks until the end of the semester and I completely forgot about my French class! I went to the first class and then never went back! Fuck! I don't even remember where the class is, or who my professor was! It's way too late to drop! Fuck fuck fuck. Is it possible to learn an entire semester of French in 2 weeks? Would that even help? I've missed every assignment! Fuck! What if I-

    SNAP

    Huhwha-? A dream? What the hell brain? I graduated college 10 years ago! I never even TOOK French!

  • I get the strong feeling that none of these are real.

  • Go to bakery, give them a flash drive, ask them to make a cake with a picture of the flashdrive.

    "Umm... You mean use a picture on the flashdrive?"

    "No, I want you to take a picture of the flashdrive itself and put it on the cake... It's for a joke..."

    "Ok, whatever, you're the customer!"

    Post picture of the cake you specifically requested "Omg! LoOk whAt thE BaKery diD!!!1"

  • While that is cool, the video of the crash test dummies does not inspire confidence in the claim that seatbelts aren't needed.

  • Child.

  • Hey! You're right! Good thing that's not what the similie was trying to compare!

  • I know of the controversies, I just don't think they're all that big when you actually examine them.

    Homophobia

    I'm part of the LGBT community and I just think there are bigger fish to fry. One of the guys involved made a $1k donation to an anti-prop 8 campaign like 15 years ago. That's it. That's the controversy. Like, yea it's shitty, but there was a lot more hate toward the community back then. People have grown and changed their views a lot in the years since. If we boycott every single company or individual who ever did anything even remotely homophobic, no matter their actions since, we'd essentially have to be living in a commune growing and making literally everything ourselves. Btw, this same guy is the one who developed JavaScript and I don't see even remotely the same level of hate for that, so it really feels like people are just being selectively upset.

    Cryptocurrency

    It's opt-in. It asks you once, and then never again. It was developed at a time when crypto was popular and was a feature people wanted. It was seen as a good thing when it first came out. Public opinion on crypto has soured, but plenty of people who wanted it still use the feature on brave. They have no good reason to scrap it. Especially because, again, it's opt-in only. Don't like it? Cool, don't use it. They aren't pushing it on you. But people hear the word crypto and immediately break out the pitchforks.

    Do you even know what the goal of their cryptocurrency was? I think it's safe to say its failed at this point, but the goal was to completely rework how ads function on the internet. It would have killed the modern advertisement methods where ads are shoved in your face and you get nothing for it. Instead, it would have directly paid you a tiny amount any time you saw an ad, with you being able to choose how many you saw, or even if you saw any at all. Then you'd either be able to either keep the money for yourself, or donate it to websites/content creators of your choice. Take away the crypto part of it, and that's actually a pretty admirable goal in my book.

    Ad affiliate links

    Brave's biggest, actual, controversy is that they replaced some affiliate links with their own. Specifically links to binance.us, which is a crypto market. When it was found, Brave changed their code extremely quickly and claimed it was a bug. Now, companies have often lied through their teeth and claimed malicious actions were a "mistake" or a "bug", so maybe that is the same case here. But considering it was one site only, it was fixed almost immediately, and when you look at how it was actually replacing links (suggested auto fill in the address bar, pulled from browsing history) I am leaning toward it actually being unintentional.

    Conclusion

    I think people just like to hate things, and will find any reason to continue to do so as long as their little corner of the internet tells them they should hate it. People most vocal with their complaints rarely take the time to dig into the facts and see if it's really as bad as they claim; or they fully know it's not as bad, but never want to let the truth get in the way of a good ol' fashion, hate-boner, circle-jerk.

    Is Brave the best browser? Hahahaha no. It's still a chromium fork and has been a little too eager to integrate AI in my opinion. But it's FAR from the worst and is the probably the best privacy focused browser for those that don't understand technology and struggle to use third-party ad-ons. It's just a little ridiculous that while there are legitimate things to complain about, most people's arguments seem to always stem from the 3 topics above.

    Now cue the downvotes because I'm clearly some crypto fascist boot-licker for daring to believe "nuance" isn't a made up word.

  • When companies drill for oil, are they not drilling holes because only one end is open?

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world

    Why isn't steam from power plants harnessed, condensed, and used to power gravity fed water turbines?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Vampires are evil because they're incapable of self-reflection.