Just use a cool nature video as your desktop background instead? Pretty sure that’s possible on most systems nowadays. MacOS actually does this by default already.

Just use your smartphone to call him then.

So your use case is having your desktop show a live view of what’s on the other side of the screen to make it appear transparent? Okay.

What if it’s just your desk and the wall behind it?

What’s on the other side of the screen that would possibly be worth taking a picture or video of? Unless you’re in public, I guess, in which case — creepy.

Plus, consider that a laptop screen is usually angled backwards so the camera would be pointed towards the ground unless it’s also rotatable, which means extra moving parts (i.e. things that could break).

I honestly can’t think of any scenario in which this would actually be useful.

Well, has your coach ever trained any pro athletes, or do they always seem to be unable to make it there?

Same reason Mastodon isn’t as popular as Twitter… a lot of people really don’t understand the concept of federation, or why it’s important in order to maintain a robust and healthy discussion. They’re fine with dictatorship as long as it aligns with their sensibilities.

Also, the concept of “one website, one app” is infinitely easier to comprehend than “many instances, many apps, still one protocol”.

Yo momma so old she knew Burger King when he was still a prince

Correct. This did in fact happen in No Time to Die.

Well, at least the Pulitzer Prize makes sense, I guess.

I think the elephant in the room is probably best summed up as follows:

No one will ever tell you THE truth. They’ll only ever tell you THEIR truth.

That’s not to say that people won’t ever TRY to do the former (though you have to be careful to separate those who do from those who pretend to), but rather, that it is fundamentally impossible to do so. The real truth is far too complicated to ever be put into words, so the best anyone can hope to do is point you towards it.

Why don’t those starving people just go do one of those restaurant challenges where your food is free if you can finish it the entire thing?

Yeah, for sure. Because mine have really never been interested in me as a person, only in what I could do for them.

Other than that, I don’t really have any evidence that I’m not their child, so perhaps they were just bad at parenting, but the thought has definitely crossed my mind more than once.

She’s done what three times now? Vote for Trump?

You married your wife because you love her. Her mother-in-law came as a package deal. You can’t have one without the other, because she is the one who raised her. Perhaps she did make the wrong choice a year ago, but you can’t keep holding it against her. You don’t have to agree with her views, you just have to try to accept her regardless, until she softens up on her stance.

Hate is it not driven out by hate. It’s only driven out by Love.

Besides voting for Trump, is there anything else problematic with her behavior? Because, you know, everyone can make a mistake, and being a family is about doing your best to accept people regardless of their flaws.

You say she’s not MAGA, so is it her forcing you into unwanted political conversations or is it the other way around? Because if it’s you who’s constantly pressuring her on his this issue, it kinda isn’t fair for you to complain about it.

Okay boomer, why don’t you go to a museum or something like that?

A very expensive one, for sure.

Found the real programmer

The mod log certainly helps, because it leaves a public trail of evidence for each ban, but it ultimately still depends on the server admin, because they are in charge of choosing their mods. But at least no one can ban you from the platform entirely, at worst you can get banned from an entire instance.