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  • I think I might have felt differently at a stage of my life where I didn't have nearly as much disposable income as I do now.

    Over the past few years, I've adopted the attitude of trying my hardest to pay for the things that I would be genuinely disappointed if they went away.

    I have system-wide ad block, so the $20 or whatever for Sync actually bought me nothing other than the knowledge that if LJ decides to pack up Sync and go and work for a FAANG instead, I don't need to feel guilty.

    This attitude would be unrecognisable to my younger self.

  • supreme court legislation

    The supreme court does not legislate. No court of any kind should be legislating. That's the damn problem.

    The reason the US is in the position it's in is because while the rest of the world was going through its bodily autonomy revolution and democratically legislating abortion access, the US relied on a judicial decision (without a lawmaker being involved) based on a fragile foundation of "right to privacy".

  • Ah, so it's, like, a brutalist, function over form preference?

    From your perspective - yes, exactly that and I think that's probably the best way you can understand it.

    From my perspective, the old.reddit.com UI (with RES) is possibly the most beautifully designed web page I've ever encountered. I certainly couldn't have used it almost daily for the past 12 years if that wasn't the case.

    I can focus on content much better when the UI is breathing. And I prefer clients that have images already expanded, to save me the clicks.

    I can understand and respect that while thinking you're insane. If I had to guess, your formative experience with technology was via touch screens and I think that would go a long way to explaining your preferences.

    For me, post uniformity is important. It feels like I'm in control of the experience and I'm browsing rather than having things shoved in my face. I have Imagus installed so I only need to hover over a link to see the picture and so I can just look at the pictures I'm interested in - one at a time.

    Full disclosure - my earliest experiences in the Internet were bulletin boards and that probably had a formative part in my preferences. I'm also probably undiagnosed something.

  • We could, if we wanted, literally just decide

    This is basically what it comes down to.

    Unless you're worried about Charlie sailing to France to raise a mercenary army, we can assume he'll do exactly what he's told.

    Even if the Crown Estate was his personal property (which it isn't) - parliament is sovereign and there's more of us than him. We could just take it from him.

    God, I hope long enough to see a Great British Republic.

  • I swear every monarchy-loving flag-shagger bases their entire personality off the same 4 minute, 12-year-old poorly researched youtube video.

    No, Charlie Boy would not get to keep the Crown Estate were we to evict him.

  • Pretending you're blind and deaf to popular culture (to the extent where you claim to have never heard of one of the best-selling artists of all time) is an order of magnitude more cringe and obnoxious than people who obsess over celebrities.

  • Also, even if they're stupid enough to put up their tariff card for how much a Director/Manager/Associate billable hour is, they're just going to get annoying questions about "Why does a manager need to do this rather than an associate?" as well as the "We think this will take you 7 hours - why are you quoting for 8?".

  • Opening up a new subreddit in the past few years had like a 50% chance of having 4 out of the top 10 posts people obnoxiously whining about X: "Please can we stop posting about X","Will the mods please start removing X posts?", "If something doesn't change soon, I'm going to start a new subreddit and the first rule will be 'No X'".

    Meanwhile there are zero posts about X in sight.