They teach it at Turkish schools.

It’s true. Habitually saying “please.” thank you," “hello” to people can open a lot of doors. Also, it’s just amazing in an awful way just how many people are not doing this.

Getting some serious Stalin vibes here.

Stare into the abyss for long enough, and the abyss will start staring into you.
Or whatever that means.

Geez, that’s some dedication. And where do you even get 64 working floppy drives?

pngcrush gets it down to 21.1 kB with no loss of quality.
I tried posting the file, but Lemmy converts it to the atrocious webp format automatically.
EDIT: JPEG-XL clocks in at just 16.3 kB, again with no loss of quality.

Nice racket. First you pay the airlines for their tickets, then the ICE with your tax dollars to buy your data from said airlines.

Dating sites besieging their users with bots and fake profiles.