Alto

Alto , 10 months ago to memes in Taking all bets!

Clearly Tupac is going to use AI as a cover to finally come out of hiding and release new music

Alto , 10 months ago to games in Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer

Wait I thought we all agreed HLA is HL3 in spirit

Alto , 10 months ago to technology in Twitter to hide news headlines from link previews

Tends to be true of the vast majority of people that scream about how smart they are

Alto , 10 months ago to til in TIL The first air conditioner was created not for cooling a room but to prevent humidity causing swelling pages and blurry prints in a printing press

I’m just trying to help disambiguate.

It comes off as needlessly pedantic

Alto , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to til in TIL The first air conditioner was created not for cooling a room but to prevent humidity causing swelling pages and blurry prints in a printing press

Yes, it very much so does imply the start of the century

Alto , 10 months ago to worldnews in ‘Fired on like rain’: Saudi border guards accused of mass killings of Ethiopians

Guys Im starting to think Saudi Arabia might be the bad guy

Alto , 10 months ago to nostupidquestions in In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?

Go into enough debt that you wish you just died

Alto , 10 months ago to showerthoughts in It's probably more difficult for kids to throw house parties nowadays when their parents are out of town due to how accessible security cameras are.

There's a difference between hanging out with friends and partying

Alto , 10 months ago to showerthoughts in It's probably more difficult for kids to throw house parties nowadays when their parents are out of town due to how accessible security cameras are.

I'm gonna go off on a limb and say that person's above 21. Some of us just ain't into that much.

Alto , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to til in TIL that the album "Songs for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age has a hidden track before Track #1

There's also the "hidden track" of the laughing to the tune of Feel Good Hit of the Summer at the end!

Edit: and the actual hidden track, mosquito song

Alto , 10 months ago to worldnews in Spam donates 5 truckloads of beloved canned meat in response to Maui fire | CNN Business

And it's absolutely delicious when cooked right

Alto , 10 months ago to worldnews in Spam donates 5 truckloads of beloved canned meat in response to Maui fire | CNN Business

You mean to tell me that properly cooked food tastes better than unproperly cooked food?

God dammit Gump, you're a god damn genius!

Alto , 10 months ago to asklemmy in You become President of the United States. A wealthy person attempts to bribe you to do what they tell you to do for one million US Dollars per year (paid weekly). Do you take this offer?

Likely gonna make at least that much from speaking deals and being on think tank boards and the like anyway. Doing your best to improve the nation, thus improving your image, could very easily sharply increase the money you make from those gigs. Even at that level I wouldn't have the slightest clue as to what to do with the money, so I sure as hell wouldn't really want more.

Alto , 10 months ago to news in Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis if the mayor signs a minimum wage bill for drivers

What public transport

Alto , 10 months ago to technology in Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people

2 main reasons

1. fair play laws required 1 anti smoking PSA to be aired for every ~3 smoking advertisements. This was causing the first downturn in the amount of smokers for pretty much the first time
2. it made it basically impossible for any new tobacco companies to take any marketshare from the established brands