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go to About:config find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999 find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999

additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm

also in about:config, find: media.encoder.webm.enabled media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled media.mediasource.webm.enabled media.webm.enabled and toggle them all to false

note! this will limit video to 1080p

Redditors crashed the website with donations over $25k and 0 wishes left. via /r/MadeMeSmile

The DiVine website says that it's made by Rabble.

If you go to their website you can find this:

if you click that And Other Stuff you're taken to an entirely different website that explains what all that 'other stuff' is: five pillars of building Nostr AI.

You have to wonder why they're hiding it, right? Why is it so hard to find? Why register an entirely different domain (it's andotherstuff.com, not like rabblelabs.com/andotherstuff) just to talk about the AI stuff you're doing if you're so proud of it?

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

Right now we have 7 kitchens running in and around Gaza City, 5 water trucks delivering fresh water every morning, and our health clinic is still seeing patients. Sadly, our classroom was bombed—but we’ve pivoted to something bigger: Delivered 4,250 food parcels so far; another 2,550 parcels ready to go; in the middle area, we delivered 600 parcels and opened a new kitchen; we keep showing up for hospitals with meals. Each food parcel = 40–60 meals. It’s not just about helping one family—it feeds whole networks of relatives, neighbors, and displaced people. In doing this, we’re also showing the world (and the bad actors watching us) that you can give away a lot of food in Gaza without harming Palestinians. Our signage makes that crystal clear. One moving moment: we’ve been operating from inside an Orthodox and Catholic church. Families shelter there, and they benefit from the food too. Our young team—many who had never met a Christian before—are learning about unity and friendship in real time. Feeding people from a church feels like something Jesus himself would have blessed. We hear the drones above us, and we know they don’t like what we’re doing. But we’ll keep feeding as long as we’re allowed. Our system works: families sign up on a link, we close it when full, assemble the food, and text pickup times. No chaos, no exploitation—just neighbors helping neighbors. Each distribution serves 500–1,000 people with dignity.

Putting aside the whole "Princess trapped in a tower" symbolism which is *painfully* explicit here, this conversation with her father makes it clear what role she's supposed to play: while it's not clear if this scene happens at the beggining of the Park's history or if it had already existed for a while, what IS clear is that Olivia's father is, well, grooming her to continue his legacy and take over the Park's operations, watching over the guests from afar and keeping the magic flowing while sitting contently in her gilded cage, with all her shiny toys and machines. He frames it all as a big shiny gift for her, compensation for something that happened in the past while also urging her to forget that same past and accept the now

So naturally Olivia complied and became some sort of "ruler" of the Park, at the very least acting as a (human) face for the public. And she has kept this role for YEARS, so much so that in the present she STILL remains on the same damn room, just now bedridden and surrounded by medical staff and freaky androids instead of toys. She's a much of a prisoner of the Park's underlying structure as Guinevere is, the main difference being that while Gwen apparently recognizes that and is constantly trying to escape, Olivia probably never realized she was one to begin with (how could you, if most of what you've ever known was a prison?)

That is also the reason why adult Olivia seems so distraught about Gwen's scape: she doesn't realize she's living in a cage and so can't for the life of her understand why Gwen, her friend/toy/surrogate mother figure(?), keeps escaping. She rationalizes it as an error in Gwen's programming and thus is always trying to "fix her", not necessarily out of malice but because she's desperate to keep her one and only companion at her side, jailed together, forever

Which would have been fine and fair enough, and certainly a sentiment Dana Terrace has earned the right to!

But the show doesn't stop at a South Park-ian raised middle finger to the corporation, it doesn't just scoff and spit and cry "it's all phoney!"

The pilot is premised on an understanding that no matter how fake or how toxic it might be, the Disney Princesses and their stories are important to people (Frankie seems to most directly embody this, hallucinating Gwen in her most glorious form even when she's broken and damaged), and that finding love and meaning in these things does not make a person weak or stupid or bad.

It's... not necessarily healthy to fixate on it, and Frankie is very explicitly shown to retreat from reality into hallucinatory fantasy, and those fantasies cause her to act rashly and put herself in serious danger. But it's not evil, it's not stupid, and she isn't wrong to love Gwen and the beauty that Gwen represents.

Gwen, the Princess, is not the problem.

And neither is Olivia, really. She's a deeply traumatized child who was not only groomed and isolated by her father, but who seems to be stuck in a state of permanently arrested development, absolutely cocooned in saccharine childish fantasies, and consumed by the obsessive idea of "fixing" Gwen. If she can only "fix" her properly this time, then... then she'll stay. Then it'll work. If she can only make her PERFECT, then it will work.

There's a heavy implication that Orville is acting out of guilt for something, some trauma or pain that Olivia was put through because of him, and my read is that Olivia's obsession with fixing and "perfecting" Gwen is a sublimated obsessive desire to somehow fix, somehow undo, whatever that trauma is. My first guess would be the death of a loved one, and my first guess would be Olivia's mother (there's that conspicuous family portrait we see a couple of times + the umbilical cord imagery when Olivia pulls on her guts: a child yanking on the connection to a mother).

Olivia and Frankie seem somewhat parallel with one another in that way, opposites and complementaries. Both of them obsessed with Gwen, both of them in a state of alienation from reality. Olivia is physically frail, Frankie is physically potent, Olivia is rich and privileged, Frankie is poor and marginalized. Both of them are deeply marked by the neglect and abuse of father figures who think they mean well.

Olivia is not the problem, she's the product of the problem. The problem is the fucking park. This hovering, consuming leech on the world, gorging on resources and throwing up garbage and poison on the world below. It is the world, the structure, the system of cyclical and constantly escalating consumption - this is the thing which is not only poisoning the world, but which is strangling Olivia's life out of her with endless swaddling childhood, and which produces and commodifies Gwen's body (bodies?) for consumption and abuse, and which exploits the fantasies and dreams of people like Frankie and Andi, and poisons their world and impoverishes their lives.

Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don't know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.

Hal wasn't raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a 'space dad' who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.