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This was never an issue for me. I almost exclusively use the "home" (I guess that's "recommend") part of the youtube app and very rarely get AI videos in any form (voice, images etc.). The few times it's happened I do I just tap the three buttons and select "don't recommend channel". About 80% of videos shown are from channels I watch regularly and the rest are a random mix of interest relevant things with a few completely random ones here and there. Not once has it been any AI heavy anything.

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    What rock have you been living under? It's not even that there has never been accountability in the "American Police Forces", there's never been accountability in any place of power in the US. This is true for a most of the world throughout all of history but since the thread is about the US I chose to reference that specifically.

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    Talking Heads - (Nothing but) Flowers

    Here we stand
    Like an Adam and Eve
    Waterfalls
    Garden of Eden
    Two fools in love
    So beautiful and strong
    Birds in the trees
    Are smiling upon them
    From the age of the dinosaurs, cars have run on gasoline
    Where? Where have they gone?
    Now, it's nothing but flowers

    There was a factory
    Now there are mountains and rivers
    You've got it, you've got it

    We caught a rattlesnake
    Now we've got something for dinner
    You've got it, you've got it

    There was a shopping mall
    Now it's all covered with flowers
    You've got it, you've got it

    If this is paradise
    I wish I had a lawn mower
    You've got it, you've got it

    Years ago
    I was an angry young man
    I'd pretend
    That I was a billboard
    Standing tall
    By the side of the road
    I fell in love
    With the beautiful highway
    This used to be real estate, now it's only fields and trees
    Where? Where is the town?
    Now, it's nothing but flowers

    The highways and cars
    Were sacrificed for agriculture
    I thought that we'd start over
    But, I guess I was wrong

    Once there were parking lots
    Now it's a peaceful oasis
    You've got it, you've got it

    This was a Pizza Hut
    Now it's all covered with daisies
    You've got it, you've got it

    I miss the honky tonks
    Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
    You've got it, you've got it

    And as things fell apart
    Nobody paid much attention
    You've got it, you've got it

    I dream of cherry pies
    Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
    You've got it, you've got it

    We used to microwave
    Now we just eat nuts and berries
    You've got it, you've got it

    This was a discount store
    Now it's turned into a cornfield
    You've got it, you've got it

    Don't leave me stranded here
    I can't get used to this lifestyle

    Their best song IMO, and weirdly a song many who are fans haven't heard.

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    Hey! I'm looking for an app or browser with a good reading mode, preferably with images too, of website articles. So many websites put random shit between paragraphs that break up the article, and not just ads so using an adblocker doesn't help much.
    For example, I saw this article about my city: https://www.thesun.co.uk/travel/37178834/new-train-station-opens-europe-city-break/
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    Very much prefer a FOSS app, searched around a bit but didn't really find anything.

     

    Hey, for the past couple of weeks I've had issues with comments loading. It started as only every now and then but now it's almost every post, and it's not specific to certain instances. There have been two (maybe three) updates during this time and it has gotten worse with every update.
    It just shows the loading icon in the comment field forever, tried waiting over 20 minutes a couple of times.
    I'm unsure I'll even be able to read the comments on this post so I have to use another app for a bit until it's fixed (if it's a problem with the app itself or something on my end).
    Only thing I can think of that might have caused this on my end is my system wide adblocker (Adguard) but I've tried turning it off and restarting the app and my phone but the issue still persists

     

    I haven't felt such a hard punch of completely unexpected nostalgia before. Must be 20 years since the last time I saw this game, goddamn that feels weird. Both me and my little sister used to spend hours trying to beat each others highscores, she always won even though she very rarely played any games at all.

     

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    1. Option to hide bottom navigation bar on scroll, same as we already can with the top one.
    2. Option to change the three dots on every post to a share button, hold for options or have both. I only ever vote, share (to save to read later) or check comments. That one extra step to save to my read later app gets weirdly annoying very quickly.
    3. Compact card mode, looks the same as cards but have the smaller thumbnails to the side like compact does (which side as an option, right would be my choice).

    Sorry if anything is badly explained, got no sleep last night so my brain is running on fumes, just ask if needed and I'll try to explain better.

     

    The company is Access Industries and the Founder and Owner is Leonard Blavatnik

    Along with what's in the title, he is accused of reputation laundering against Ukraine and has been personally sanctioned by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was also part of a WhatsApp group involving some of the United States' most powerful business leaders with the stated goals of "changing the narrative" in favour of Israel and "helping win the war" against Gaza.

    Everything is in the linked Wikipedia article about him, mostly under the "Controversies and disputes" part.

    I switched to Deezer after seeing it recommended as a better Spotify alternative here on Lemmy, but after finding all this I immediately stopped using it. It's as bad as the shit Spotify does and has done IMO. I'm not here to recommend or push an alternative, but if I can give info on what I use now if someone asks.

     

    Hello! A few years ago I saw this really good movie that I can't stop thinking about but I forgot the name and just can't find it no matter how much I try.
    I'm pretty sure it's from Eastern Europe, non-English language, made kinda recently (within the last 10 years I think).
    The movie starts with a mother and her toddler hundreds of years ago who live in a small hut in the forest who gets visited by a witch (I think it's some specific folklore being. She kinda looks like a burn victim, whole body is scar tissue when we see her at the beginning of the movie) then the movie jumps a few years and we see the now kid (the toddler from before) go into a cave and is stuck in there for some time.
    I can't remember exactly what happened during and right after that.
    But the movie then begins its actually story of this witch who kills people and then transforms into them, basically copies their physical bodies, and then goes on to live as them for several years. She lives for a long time and during the movie we see the different people, both male and female, who she lives as.
    Every time she becomes someone new she has to relearn basic things so she can't talk or do simple tasks, almost like a toddler in an adult body for a while.
    Her thoughts are narrated most of the time, often as whispering, and we see and listen as she explores things like sex, relationships, being these different people and as she learns to live their lives. It's very close and personal to her, we basically experience it through her mind but see her as these people in second and third person (not actually game-like third person perspective, just that we see her characters from a perspective outside those people). I think we do see through her eyes sometimes, but I'm not sure about that.

    Does anyone know what movie it might be? Or have any tips on websites or ways to search to help me find it? Thanks!!

    Edit: this is crazy, I found it right after making this post... So many hours trying to find it before with nothing even being close. It's "You Won't Be Alone": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8296030/

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