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”.

In German, dogs are male by default (der Hund can be used as a generic term for both male and female dogs), but bitches are female (die Hündin). Cats are female by default (die Katze), but tomcats are male (der Kater).

We do not use Hündin as a slur for women, but Hund can be used as a slur for men.

What is it with the Austrians always stirring up shit?

Is the gender of yogurt under debate in Germany? I am only aware of Nutella and butter. Yogurt was always male.

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

Ah yes, it’s misinformation time

I’ve never heard of such a thing so you could be the first, I guess.

Please don’t forget to name your firstborn after me if it works out.

Well, first of all, it’s a Philly cheesesteak sandwich with a Hawaiian name and it doesn’t even have pineapples or spam on it. I’d say that definitely counts as foolish.

No, that’s the current president of Mexico

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.

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.

November seems acceptable. September or October is not.

Guys, you won’t believe this! Trump is also literally destroying the freeway near my house!