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Sounds like HowToBasic (or Basics?), from memory.

So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect "ad-unsafe" works that wouldn't get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.

So we tore the ads back out, traffic's recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we're doing better without ads than we were with ads.

Each show is unique, from what I see in the comments. I feel like he's not doing the traditional 'write a set' thing, but he works backwards from an idea ("America feels like a Dollar General nowadays", for example) and has the ability to conjure an hour of almost shaggy-dog-story material on the spot leading you to that endpoint.

Rare talent.

This came up in the latest episode of Tom Scott's Reverse Trivia: they got onto the topic of princes, and Tom had the sudden realisation of where "principality" comes from.

And Gary then dropped "duchy": region granted to a duke.

Words have histories, we often forget it.

So this came up with this user a few days ago, and apparently ð fell out of use later in Old English and its usage was merged into þ for hundreds of years.

I remain unconvinced.

Whenever I come across ASCII art in the comments, it's a good day. Here's one from the day job:

So there are multiple people in this thread who state their job is to unfuck what the LLMs are doing. I have a family member who graduated in CS a year ago and is having a hell of a time finding work, how would he go about getting one of these "clean up after the model" jobs?

My leatherman was a little over a ton That thing must be huge!

In landfill, but not as raw material. If you didn't already know how to make bronze, for example, you'd have a hell of a time making new bronze based on old contaminated remnants.

The argument has been made that, even if another intelligence arises in 100 million years, there are multiple problems for them: the Sun will be burning hotter by then, easily accessible raw material will all have been used up (Cyprus is no longer covered in surface-level raw copper, for example), we'll probably irradiate the surface on our way out, etc.

That was kind of the author's point: that HTTP is so broadly specified, and at that point had so many unnecessary RFCs extending it, that you could halfway-sensibly write a hardware control protocol by HTTP alone even if that was a terrible idea.

Source: I wrote the tea-brewing extension to HTCPCP, which takes it another notch into the ridiculous.

Appreciate the linguistic lesson, thanks. I've always run on the modern Icelandic definition.