Economics question: if you cancel Disney+, your account remains active and you can still watch until the end of the period you've paid for or the end of your free trial period. If you do watch during this time, does Disney benefit? Or is it a burden on Disney (using their resources?)

What's the deal with the current air quality in downtown Toronto? (source: www.airqualityontario.com/aqhi/index.php)

Someone took the chip from their Presto Card and put it into a magic wand.

Me: "The phrase 'congress of the crow' sounds like it's from something. I'll just look it up..." Wikipedia: "It's from the kama sutra, but before I tell you that I'll lead with some NSFW illustrations prominently positioned at the very top where you can't miss them!"

And to add insult to injury, the AI-generated repair instructions that seem to have displaced iFixit in search results are WRONG! (To be clear, I'm not using AI for repair instructions. I'm searching for real repair instructions, and getting what turn out to be AI-generated sites that are wrong)

I want to use the internet on a computer, not a phone!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I approach news stories about polls with skepticism, but sometimes you get a response that has to be significant.

Fuck your app. I want to be able to visit your website and do everything I need to do there. Apps are for specific functions, the way computer programs used to be.

I just found an eyebrow hair with a split end. I feel like that shouldn't be allowed.

Another weird thing: someone sharpied over the Draw the Line posters around Yonge & Eglinton Weird for 2 reasons: 1. If you don't like them, why not just remove them? 2. Why do they object to *just* Draw the Line and not any of the other activism there are posters for?

The thing is, before we even get into ethics, the confident wrong answers are the very reason why I don't use it. Wrong answers are less useful to me than a blank page. So what they're telling me here is they expressly don't *want* people like me, who need stuff to actually work, to use it.

This is Ralphie. He's trying to live up to his reputation as a retriever. Let him cook. 12/10 (TT: ralphiesgoldenlife)

*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

There seems to be a recent increase in retailers partnering with instacart for delivery, which is an irritant because you now need to create an instacart account just to search their website to see if they sell a particular product.

This has crossed my feed several times and I had to look it up, so I'm reposting it with alt text

Something I noticed in fanfic recently is authors setting a story in the 80s or 90s, getting historical details wrong enough to be jarring to me, and it turns out there's no narrative reason for the story to be set in the past. They could have told the exact same story set in the present

I've heard some people thinking it's safe/reasonable to travel to the US on business travel, when you're there in a professional expert capacity. People need to be aware that the workers described here were there on business travel, in a professional expert capacity.

Reposting with alt text:

So...people have a "To Read" list?

Happy sunday

English onomatopoeia for a kissing sound (mwuah!) sounds an awful lot like the French word for "me" (moi). I wonder if that has ever caused confusion or miscommunication?

I just don't understand US politics

All the money from this should just go to food banks, this is so stupid and inefficient. But it's how they're doing it, so if you're Canadian, you can probably make a claim.

If a baffle plate never ruptured, I wonder if there was some tiny butterfly effect over the years that marginally adjusted the construction of baffle plates #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds

#StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds subtitle: "Beeps negatively" That's an excellent nuance to convey in subtitles!

I want Nurse Chapel's green top! (Although I suspect civilian clothes on #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds are not commercially available)

LOOK AT THIS FACE

This is Yeti and Ripley. They each have two different colored eyes. But together they have two sets of the same different colored eyes. 13/10 for both (IG: heterochromia_hooligans)

Can someone ELI5 why half my skyline is telling me to turn off video autoplay? Everyone's talking about it like it's something everyone knows and We Don't Talk About, but I'm completely out of the loop

This is Oliver. He's perhaps the most huggable dog we've ever seen. And we've seen maybe the most dogs out of everybody. 14/10 (IG: oliver.the.newfie)

This is Nora and Sophie. Their family was a little nervous how Sophie would react to Nora. Had no idea their cockatoo has always wanted a puppy of her own. 12/10 for both (TT: iamtylerrayn)

in case you missed this Very Important Video last night and need to see something silly and whimsical instead of terrible.

When you have a hammer, everything looks like nails

Found this little fellow outside peering into our house tonight. 😂

I have to scrub the grout between my bath tiles (and yes, I have to scrub and not just wipe). I've been using a toothbrush, but it's unergonomic and strains the tendons in my hands. Does anyone know of a tool that's more ergonomic for this job?

New, mildly spicy foster kittens incoming! 🌶️

Ferocious.

Buckle up and/or mute me, I've been googling biblical translations again! Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat describes the Pharoah's two servants as a "baker" and a "butler." Baker makes sense, but butler? That's more Downton Abbey than Ancient Egypt. What does the bible actually say? 🧵

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

If any company has the balls to put out a modular, repairable, no bloatware OS, AI free device (phone, handheld, laptop, etc) they will be able to run the tech industry within a decade easily.

A new library book haul always puts a smile on my face!

Your familiar is a venus fly trap — You are content to wait patiently for the right opportunity, and rarely act rashly. When you do take action, it is swift and decisive. stealingfromwizards.com/familiar-quiz

As a Gen X normie, I have to say, WTF happened, people?? Time was, everyone knew how to get binaries from usenet! And now y'all are stopping at the AI summary??

This has me thinking about how, when I was a kid in the 80s, the "you have to get a shot IN YOUR STOMACH!!" narrative about rabies was pervasive, but the "...or you DIE!!!" part didn't actually reach me until adulthood.

The quality of Reddit comments is noticeably worse today.

This crossed my feed, and what strikes me about the image shown is the school is so far from the road for no apparent reason. There are a few houses, but no visible pedestrian link. Basically, they've made it harder to walk to school, even for students within walking distance

And that very attitude is probably why the number of sick days are increasing - if you make people work in offices with no COVID mitigations, they're going to get sick more often than if they're working from home with society-wide COVID mitigations