I had to look this one up. Why the Proud Boys Initiation Ritual Involves Cereal

I would say these are a bunch of frat boys who peaked in college but I think they are just cosplaying what they think being in a frat would be like.

Yosef Ozia, a member of the Southern Proud Boys chapter who’s based in Atlanta, Georgia, told Extra Crispy that this all stemmed from a fart joke. Yep, a fart joke. McInnes introduced this step based on a rule his buddies had in the past: if someone farted, they’d get beat on until they could list five kinds of breakfast cereal. “It doesn’t mean anything,” Ozia said. “[Initiation] is mostly a joke. A lot of people take it seriously, and they shouldn’t really.”

I did the same

I mean there are a lot less questions if you know the state.

Yeah I tend to think that anyone who identifies as high t alpha male is actually just the opposite.

They are usually the ones seeking admiration and approval. Meanwhile the free thinkers are just doing our days and caring for our tribes. No approval needed.

I mean I could but I have a nearly limitless supply of rabbits in my yard. Their fur makes great gifts. My plants love the compost I get from everything else. As a bonus the blood compost deters rabbits from eating my cabbage.

Funny thing, I can’t seem to find any type of vegan certification that is concerned with the use of animal byproducts or waste in fertilizer. A few specifically say they do not check fertilizer.

This is a tale as old as time. We did this in the late 90s at an office supply store. Every Sunday night changing price tags “ooh guess there will be a sale on resume paper in the next few weeks”. 1-4 weeks out we would increase prices on some items just to lower them back when the ad came out.

Well there are only 2 choices in a FPTP election system.

This was my first thought. I could see this being a medical procedure in place of a vasectomy. Get switch (or something less likely to get bumped) installed and set to off. Then when you want to have kids, another procedure to turn the switch on.

People keep looking for a quick fix for male sperm control, I didn’t think it is possible. At least not as a off and on solution that keeps coming up.

Sadly I can say this is not the first time I’ve seen the bang local milfs decal, and that does not appear to be a Florida plate.

Tiny hands, tiny tongue. He barely noticed it.

Drumpf can’t even hold a glass of water, I’m supposed to believe her can hold anything to smoke out of? He’d probably put the lit end of a blunt in his mouth and bite.

Good ole Chode

I’m in. I’ll eat a whole case. A butter dipping sauce out maybe just some buttercream frosting would go nicely.

I will now learn to speak this word fluently and use it often to announce my farts.

Excuse me, I must retire to the veranda to tune my bumbulum.

And how much of that content was provided at a loss?

YouTube has always had ads. But less usage meant less cost. If 40% are using ad blockers, more ads will be shown to the 60%.

There is an unspoken agreement that if you consume you allow the ads. By using ad blockers, we’ve brought a lot of this on ourselves.

That being said, my views are very fantastical. Profit is the ultimate driver and very few (wiki who doesn’t even use ads) are only hoping to cover costs.

There needs to be a balance.

There is still a non zero cost associated with storing and streaming this content.

This is why we need consumer focused privacy laws. Within our lifetime there will no longer be free content or we will not be able to escape ads (Idiocracy style).

Lots of unpopular opinions in here and I’m willing to add mine to the mix.

I’m well aware of ad blockers, and use them occasionally. I also block trackers like pendo through DNS entries on my router. I pay for YouTube.

But I also allow ads and welcome them.

I remember when you couldn’t get email unless you were in a school or paid for it. I remember a time when the fastest Internet loaded images line by line. I remember an Internet without videos, or even GIFs.

Services cost money. You use the service, you are the commodity. I’ve accepted this. A few ads don’t kill me and it helps to support providers. I’m quite numb to ads.

Yes they are tracking me and selling my data, but what does that actually mean? I get more targeted offers. More targeted ads.

We’ve become scared of being tracked by corporations, but for what reason?

Providing content costs money. The days of the free Internet will quickly come to an end without advertisers.

FYI PBS gets very little from public funding.

I think this is also an archaic model from before smart phones and the early days of smart phones. In the early days of apps, most attempted to limit data usage because most network providers charged a premium for data and the networks were much slower and smaller.

While you could tether in these early days, even before smart phones, the computer was capable of much higher data usage than the phone. These limits were put in place to protect a network that wasn’t really built for this level of load.

Old rules with good purpose turned into a way to charge more money.