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- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 2 days ago:
Some of you realize your jobs are really unimportant
Don’t “police, teachers, garbage collectors and fireman” kinda rely on other professions to do their jobs? Why do need to put other workers down? Pretty sure I relied on a school bus driver to get the students to me, an HVAC guy to make sure that the building was comfortable, architects and construction workers to create the building, electricians……….
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 days ago:
Wouldn’t the ideal be self hosted content made by the people hosting it? Obviously there’s no mechanical means to block people from uploading content that they don’t make, but those kinds of ethical questions and control of access can be handled by federation networks.
Decentralizing these things could lead to a better way for sex workers to work safely (SESTA/FOSTA closed up a lot of safer avenues for sex work in the US) There’s a lot of rules for trust that you can build into these systems, things like basic encryption with private and public keys.
Someone who didn’t want their content online could take it down easily. They could easily gate it - like, think about where most of the profit the actresses and actors videos go to now? If you are watching stuff for free on a website, it’s the website getting ad revenue and maybe the company. Do they get royalties? Workers should own the means of their reproduction.
- Comment on there i fixed it 2 days ago:
CYRANO: Ah no! young blade! That was a trifle short! You might have said at least a hundred things By varying the tone. . .like this, suppose,. . .
Aggressive: ‘Sir, if I had such a nose I’d amputate it!’
Friendly: ‘When you sup It must annoy you, dipping in your cup; You need a drinking-bowl of special shape!’
Descriptive: ''Tis a rock!. . .a peak!. . .a cape! – A cape, forsooth! ‘Tis a peninsular!’
Curious: ‘How serves that oblong capsular? For scissor-sheath? Or pot to hold your ink?’
Gracious: ‘You love the little birds, I think? I see you’ve managed with a fond research To find their tiny claws a roomy perch!’
Truculent: ‘When you smoke your pipe. . .suppose That the tobacco-smoke spouts from your nose– Do not the neighbors, as the fumes rise higher, Cry terror-struck: “The chimney is afire”?’
Considerate: ‘Take care,. . .your head bowed low By such a weight. . .lest head o’er heels you go!’
Tender: ‘Pray get a small umbrella made, Lest its bright color in the sun should fade!’
Pedantic: ‘That beast Aristophanes Names Hippocamelelephantoles Must have possessed just such a solid lump Of flesh and bone, beneath his forehead’s bump!’
Cavalier: 'The last fashion, friend, that hook? To hang your hat on? ‘Tis a useful crook!’
Emphatic: ‘No wind, O majestic nose, Can give THEE cold!–save when the mistral blows!’
Dramatic: ‘When it bleeds, what a Red Sea!’
Admiring: ‘Sign for a perfumery!’
Lyric: ‘Is this a conch?. . .a Triton you?’
Simple: ‘When is the monument on view?’
Rustic: 'That thing a nose? Marry-come-up! ‘Tis a dwarf pumpkin, or a prize turnip!’
Military: ‘Point against cavalry!’
Practical: ‘Put it in a lottery! Assuredly ‘twould be the biggest prize!’ Or. . .parodying Pyramus’ sighs. . . ‘Behold the nose that mars the harmony Of its master’s phiz! blushing its treachery!’
–Such, my dear sir, is what you might have said, Had you of wit or letters the least jot: But, O most lamentable man!–of wit You never had an atom, and of letters You have three letters only!–they spell Ass! And–had you had the necessary wit, To serve me all the pleasantries I quote Before this noble audience. . .e’en so, You would not have been let to utter one– Nay, not the half or quarter of such jest! I take them from myself all in good part, But not from any other man that breathes!
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- Comment on What are your favorite RPG maker games? 1 week ago:
I loved Space Funeral! It feels like such a love letter to fucking around and making something unique.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on High value 2 weeks ago:
It plays well with original Morrowind mods, including Tamriel Rebuit, which is fucking awesome.
- Comment on High value 2 weeks ago:
Yuk. Skyrim stripped out everything that made Morrowind special. It feels more like a Ubisoft game than an RPG.
Morrowind is old and has retroRPG jank, but as long as you don’t run everywhere it’s not that hard. There’s even OpenMW if you want some modern quality of life features.
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 2 weeks ago:
It’s really tragic that we have lost this sexual god.
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- Comment on Man Granted Sole Custody of Toddlers Born of Rape of His Client! 2 weeks ago:
They link their sources at the end.
OSCN is not hard to use if you want to verify that the court records are there.
- Comment on Man Granted Sole Custody of Toddlers Born of Rape of His Client! 2 weeks ago:
I think the idea is to emphasize the fact that he was a medical professional who raped her while she was unconscious in his care. Which is something that is particularly fucked.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 17 comments
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- Comment on genius 3 weeks ago:
With a helicopter, I think you also need to be actively suicidal.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 138 comments
- Comment on Cruising around the OKC cock ring is an honored Oklahoman tradition 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU 5 weeks ago:
It absolutely irks me reading it. I am an OU alumni, and that level of writing would have been unacceptable in any of my classes. I feel like someone took a giant shit on my degree.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 5 weeks ago:
Rowling has spent tons of money petitioning the UK Supreme Court to basically make existing as a trans person in public illegal. She’s got more money than some cities do.
Like, legally, there is no where a trans man can piss in the UK. Not allowed in the women’s, not allowed in the men’s. Just got piss yourself.
- Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OUwww.koco.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on chemotherapy mother 5 weeks ago:
“I think you’ve healed my ballet injuries enough for one day,” Maddie giggled, smirking. “But I do have one teeny-weeny wittle wound that could use a pounding from your Theragun,” she teased.
As their lips were about to meet, the physical therapy office door slammed open. There stood Maddie’s father, looking furious. “What the hell is this?”
“Dad, it’s not what it looks like,” Maddie stammered, her cheeks burning as bright pink as her tutu.
James stood protectively in front of Maddie, his posture tense. “We were just-”
“I know what you are…” Mr. Stevens hissed. He slammed James against the Stairmaster "Balleraggot”
James hadn’t heard that word in years. He was brought right back to PT academy, to the hate he had faced simply because of who he couldn’t help but love. As his head hit the top step of the Stairmaster, he heard all the other familiar slurs, too: nutcracker, chasse chaser, plié-wad, and even tutu-fucker. He collapsed to the ground.
“And you…” He turned to his daughter, who’d broken into tears.
"Don’t think for one fucking second that we didn’t know. That’s right, your mother knew, may she rest in peace. All those years at performing arts high school… any normal daughter would’ve healed from the occasional sprain. Imagine the shame you brought onto your chemotherapy mother when she had to explain to the Rotary Club why her daughter spent her entire senior year in PT. Throwing herself at every new physical therapist. Imagine the tears in your chemommy’s eyes when we heard you in your bedroom, firing, up your Theragun for the fifth time on one of her last nights with us.”
"Leave your daughter alone, " James bellowed, tears streaming down his face as he slowly stood up.
“She’s hardly my daughter now,” Mr. Simmons laughed derisively.
"Make me.”
“Oh, I will.” James cocked his Theragun.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 90 comments
- Comment on chemotherapy mother 5 weeks ago:
The Brightest Light of Sunshine
Determined to walk away from a traumatic past, 22-year-old Grace Allen feels ready to take the next step in her healing journey—dipping a toe into the dating pool. Although she should probably start by making a friend or two, right?
Samuel ‘Cal’ Callaghan isn’t who she had envisioned as her first male friend in… well, forever. With an intimidating build, tattoos everywhere, eight years her senior, and a little sister under his care, the last thing she expected was to warm up to him so easily. As their friendship evolves, Grace can’t help but wonder if Cal is exactly who she’s been looking for all this time.
Cal can’t afford to lose sight of his priorities—making sure his tattoo parlor thrives and taking care of his little sister. Especially the latter. He wants to make sure 4-year-old Maddie has a healthy and happy childhood, despite their mother going off the rails and her father’s blatant neglect. There’s certainly no room for love in his life right now. But when a sweet blonde with a veiled past breaks down his walls, he finds it difficult to stick to his guns.
- Comment on chemotherapy mother 5 weeks ago:
This is book 2 in a published series.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 27 comments
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 1 month ago:
Imagine modeling the components of a word mathematically. Each word has a value in some number of dimensions, like maybe how negative the word is, or how much it has to do with fruit or something.
You’d be able to calculate a set of eigenvectors to describe each dimension, basically unit vectors. You could have an eigen-name or eigen-compliment, basically just a word that other names or compliments could be expressed in units of that word.
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 19 comments
- Comment on it is legal to keep a kangaroo as a pet in oklahoma 1 month ago:
Not AI.
