LonelyWendigo

@LonelyWendigo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that competition really did demonstrate what an awful service all those media monopolies provided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the internet⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  someone’s self awareness of the limitations of their own knowledge and willingness to defer to experts.

  This is a cornerstone of ethics in engineering and many other discipline that I feel is being shouted down daily by a crowd that clearly never took a philosophy or ethics class. Even among engineers it seems to be an increasingly unpopular attitude. It seems to have become popular to praise the braggart and shun the ethical self aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clyde Butcher is one of the greatest American landscape photographers since Ansel Adams and a true hero of modern naturalism. Not only does he hike out into the swamp under conditions that would make most here wilt like cotton candy in the rain (see other comments), he often does it with camera equipment that is ancient, heavy, and bulky by today’s standards.

  The biggest danger in the Everglades isn’t leeches (not at all common), brain eating amoebas (just keep your head above water), snakes (most would rather just slither away), snapping turtles (only aggressive when trapped), or gators (generally slow, predictable, dumb, and avoidable); it’s ignorance. The swamp isn’t a place into which you’d want to be dropped off unprepared and unequipped, but neither is LA of New York City.

  Clive Butcher also did a landscape photography series of Salvador Dali’s home town that really opened my eyes about the scenes and settings in many of Dali’s paintings. It becomes clear that although surreal, many of the landscapes in Dali’s paintings are actually surprisingly real places painted literally but adorned with surreal characters and objects.

  Clive Butcher walks the line between tough man and sensitive artist, cottage-core and goblin-core, Lorax and Crocodile Dundee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ska is the "pineapple on pizza" of music genres⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, it’s older than Rock and Roll. It’s from a time when big sound meant more band members, but the current music ecomony doesn’t seem well suited to supporting acts with lots of members. I long for asignificant fourth wave ska revival.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Duckduckgo is basically just bing results. But, I still use it for the bangs and lessened tracking. Being able to search any engine from the same search bar is remarkably convenient.