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#3337130 29-Jan-2025 20:47

It's a very common way to do it. IIRC Whittakers did/does the same with fair trade cocoa, and it's how the whole electrical system works, or carbon credits. You're paying extra to ensure someone used it.

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#3337953 1-Feb-2025 08:09

Just when I think people can't get more brain-dead... someone recorded a video in widescreen, then rotated the video 90° and uploaded it in a portrait frame. It therefore appears sideways unless you're A) on a phone and B) have turned on rotation lock.

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#3338011 1-Feb-2025 12:13

Behodar:

Just when I think people can't get more brain-dead... someone recorded a video in widescreen, then rotated the video 90° and uploaded it in a portrait frame. It therefore appears sideways unless you're A) on a phone and B) have turned on rotation lock.

The worst offenders are the legacy media who cant grasp the concept of vertical video and will put the vertical into a landscape video, add blurry crap on the sides so you cant watch it fullscreen on a phone at all. Generally reduce the quality to the slop that they use internally for their broadcast product like 25FPS low res and add a watermark to other peoples content at the same time.

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#3338103 1-Feb-2025 18:30

The absurdity of Google. I was looking for the programme for a classic movie. When I searched for "programme", it didn't find it. When I tried "booklet" it was the first hit, on a page titled "Programme".

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#3338114 1-Feb-2025 19:01

I haven't used Google for years, but startpage instead.

Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet.
Firewalls do NOT stop dragons.
In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is.

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#3338116 1-Feb-2025 19:05

...which does the same thing, except now it's the fourth hit, because the first three are ads.

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#3338118 1-Feb-2025 19:12

Behodar:

...which does the same thing, except now it's the fourth hit, because the first three are ads.

Are we on the same startpage?

I didn't know which specific programme you were after so just used the word itself, but there's no ads.

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#3338119 1-Feb-2025 19:13

Yes, but I didn't mention the name of the movie (i.e. I was searching for "[name of movie] booklet"). There are ads before the results when searching with the movie name (when using "booklet" rather than "programme").

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#3338120 1-Feb-2025 19:17

You may want to give some more detail of what you were looking for, I've just tried "gone with the wind programme" and got the expected results, no ads.

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#3338121 1-Feb-2025 19:20

It doesn't matter. I found it with Google by searching for "booklet". This discussion seems to have become sidetracked by ads: all I was trying to say is that Startpage has the same issue as Google in that searching for "programme" doesn't find it.

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#3338129 1-Feb-2025 19:49

The garden's as dry as a very dry thing, plants are crumbling to dust before my eyes, and the cat comes in and leaves a trail of filthy wet muddy paw prints across the floor.

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#3338133 1-Feb-2025 20:14

Ooni, makers of (rather nice) tabletop pizza ovens, have reinvented the Kenwood? Only it costs a lot more and probably won't have the durability or access to spare parts a Kenwood does.

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#3338134 1-Feb-2025 20:16

neb:

The garden's as dry as a very dry thing, plants are crumbling to dust before my eyes, and the cat comes in and leaves a trail of filthy wet muddy paw prints across the floor.

The cat pee’d and stood in it before coming inside.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3338137 1-Feb-2025 20:25

neb:

Ooni, makers of (rather nice) tabletop pizza ovens, have reinvented the Kenwood? Only it costs a lot more and probably won't have the durability or access to spare parts a Kenwood does.

So they’re following on in Kenwoods tradition of reinventing the Kitchenaid.

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#3338712 3-Feb-2025 17:46

The outfit Bianca Censori wore to the Grammys.

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