Professions that have a high pay cealing do have a different relationship to capital than miners, nurses etc., but most athletes and musicians still aren’t millionaires - a lot of professional athletes and musicians actually earn less than median wage. It just feels like a waste of effort to complain about a celebrity who owns tens of millions, when the core issue is the people who own hundreds and thousands of millions.
OP is also only comparing top earners. For every athlete who earns millions, there’s probably hundreds of athletes who make around median income or less - it’s the kind of career where people will keep doing it even if it pays barely enough to pay the bills. There are a lot of doctors who make more than the poorer professional athletes, and doctors don’t age out.
Complaining about athletes just makes it sound petty. Athletes are just employees, if you’re going to complain, complain about the athletes’ and nurses’ employers. Rich people never gave a flying fuck about their employees, and underfunded schools are a feature for them, too.
As far as I can tell, most online ads don’t have that kind of microtargeting, though, and for most products the consumers don’t believe that they will actually earn money for choosing that product.
Most porn sites do run ads!
And I did support a probably independent creator of erotic audio on Patreon once.
If we compare humanity to other species on earth, the year-round horniness without any specific mating seasons is fairly uncommon. There’s not really a good reason to assume that a sentient alien species works the same way.
For masturbation, mostly.
Humanity is relatively unique compared to earth’s other animals in that the species’ females can conceive all year (minus the time when they have their period) without any kind of mating season, and while it’s very hard to study this, it doesn’t seem like sex is particularly fun in most species, especially for females. This does help humans somewhat with forging long-lasting social bonds, which is definitely something that’s core to the human species, but it’s by no means the only way that a species can be instinctually inclined to form long-lasting social bonds. So to a hypothetical alien civilization, humans probably seem to spend a lot of energy on sex.
Servers cost money to run, many lemmy servers have set up a way to donate for server costs.
You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.
Normally I’d also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan to switch to Piefed because of that, since it’s obviously hypocritical to keep using a standard Lemmy server when you dislike the devs so much.
I had to replace mine every couple of years because they break (i.e. start leaking).
Gif is just an image format. It supports still images, too, and many if not most other image formats also support animations.
But it is true that with most displays, images are never truly still.
Join the dark side 😈
Unorganized bookmarks tend to be a lot less useful compared to open tabs once you do actually go back to them. I already organized my tabs when I opened them.
Extensions like Tree Style Tabs that display tabs as a vertical list are really good for that, especially if they also let you group the tabs in collapsible sublists. Some browsers have vertical tab bars built in, but it’s considerably less useful if you can’t collapse part of the list.
Firefox plugin that’ll allow me to type parts of the tabs domain or title and it’ll filter the results.
Is that different from searching all open tabs by typing % [keyword] into the address bar?
For research purposes it’s usually not necessary to keep every tab loaded, though. Extensions like Auto Tab Discard make open tabs about as resource-intensive as bookmarks, for a lot less extra work and much cheaper than new RAM.
You can search specifically for open tabs in Firefox and probably most other browsers (enter % [keyword] in Firefox’ address bar). If you tend to have related tabs near it, it’s less work than opening all those tabs back up through bookmarks or history.
Keeping them open keeps them more visible than if you only rely on bookmarks or browser history. Personally I use a browser extension for vertical tabs (Tree Style Tab) that allows you to make subgroups, which does a great job organizing the tabs - I could replicate something similar with bookmarks, but that would be additional work.
I also use an extension that automaticaly unloads tabs after a while (you can toggle it off on a per-tab basis, of course), which helps a lot with keeping down resource use.
Seems like that would massively depend on the length of your hair.
Influencer sponsorships are still not the same thing as random online ads, though. I totally get how sponsorships work, what I have trouble believing is that showing random ads before YouTube videos or in the middle of some news article works.