oh wow. you are a woman? is that supposed to make you immune from criticism or what? why did you volunteer such irrelevant detail, while vehemently refusing to answer simple question, which is the topic of the discussion? you are strange person…

you really had no idea? that explains a lot.

that i asked you pretty simple question and you starting kicking around like a toddler instead of answering it. one would think you would have deduced it by now.

not people. you. don’t try to dilute the responsibility onto some crowd. it is you - @velma@sh.itjust.works - who was asked pretty simple question and seems unable to answer it.

are you really so scared that you will do anything but answer? poor baby.

that’s one way to avoid answering question.

otherwise not Republican

what is “otherwise not republican”? in the system you(they) have there, not voting blue is voting red. there is no realistic third option, no matter how much you want it to be.

There are Alaskans that did not vote for this and I’m rooting for them in particular.

there is no such thing as not voting. not voting is also decision which contributed to the situation, so lets not pretend they are some innocent victims and let them have fun with their leopards.

which is one of the reason why arranged marriages could actually work for some, which seems to surprise lot of people. the fresh romance in a relationship will ultimately fade away and then it is really up to both of you if you want to put in the work to maintain the relationship. the people in arranged marriages just had to put it this work from the start.

so…

As an easter egg, the high-resolution (pixel-doubled) version of the comic is merely the comic resized to 50% and then to 400%, making it an image of poorer quality rather than a higher resolution image as for other comics, demonstrating how repeated image scaling can also introduce artifacts into images. There appears to be another easter egg in which between 21 November 2016 and 10 December 2016 (both Internet Archive pages), the original hi-res image was replaced by the pixel-doubled image. However, the image URL below the comic still links to the hi-res image.

The img-tag also includes the pixel-doubled version as a srcset-attribute: srcset=“//imgs.xkcd.com/comics/digital_data_2x.png 2x” This causes browsers on high-resolution displays (pixel density ratio 2) to show the low-quality version of the image instead of the standard-quality one and leads to people re-visiting the comic on modern displays to experience degradation compared to the remembered version.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1683

that… is the point of the joke

edit: ok, i did not realize that. so the image is linked directly from xkcd.com. but here is the cleaner version. is that some randall’s meta joke?

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:digital_data.png

they are in for a surprise in 5-8 years, when they find these 30 yo ones don’t grow on trees…

https://xkcd.com/1683/

for those who don’t know, this futurama was inspired by real life. it is really sad story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachikō

They already sent the data somewhere, so yes, even after you are done with them.

i hate to be the person giving them exposure, but at the point where they went through bbc and nyt, i don’t think that few people on lemmy make a difference…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crwyzj53pl1lo

Converse pulls ‘deeply upsetting’ advert after backlash

American footwear brand Converse has pulled an advert that social media users said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying it recognised “that we got this wrong”.

The photo, posted to the company’s Instagram account, received backlash online after critics described lighting in the image as looking like a white pointed hood.

A pair of shoes, dangling in the picture, were also likened to an image of a lynching victim by social media users.

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President Donald Trump apparently lost his cool

you can’t lose what you never had…

I don’t think they were “surprised” by it.

judging by “how is this a search result”, they clearly were.

If DDG didn’t want people to mistake that for a search result

i don’t think that is something DDG is afraid of 😂

that being said, the ad, or “sponsored link”, whatever you decide to call it, is where sponsored links on search engines where the customers are the advertisers always are - at the top of the results.

being surprised by that makes you sound like an alien who landed on earth just yesterday for the first time in their life.

if you want it differently, you may try some search engine where you are the customer (which means you have to pay, because that is what makes you the customer)

“free” service is usually paid for by advertisers (or by selling the personal data the service harvests from the users). So being surprised there are ads among the search results provided by “free” service makes it sound like it is that person’s first day on the internet