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- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 7 hours ago:
Me: Imagine reddit for left wing, privacy obsessed, Linux nerds.
Anyone else: I really don’t want to.
/scene
- Comment on 1 day ago:
If people would have gotten this upset back when it was Medi Hassan and Joy Reid we might not have gotten here.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 week ago:
They don’t. Any time a Democrat exercises the slightest bit of executive authority they scream fascism
They know the difference. They just play ignorant when it’s convenient.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 weeks ago:
I lived through all these. 2001 and 2008 were horrible, but sort of felt like a normal kind of horrible. Recessions and terrorism were things I’d seen before. It was only the scale that made those anomalous.
From my (American) perspective 2016 was when shit started getting very weird. We were relatively stable, relatively prosperous, foreign wars were tapering off… And half the country decided that a game show host was her best bet going forward.
Then it started snowballing… Bill Cosby’s a rapist, there’s a global pandemic, Kanye put out a pro-Hitler song, Pete Davidson is a sex symbol that no starlet in Hollywood can resist, The secretary of health had his brain eaten by worms, everything you own or use became a subscription service, The fear Factor guy became a political king maker, The first lady has a crypto scam that everyone’s kind of okay with, we created AI but it’s only good for spam and rule 34 tweets, we decided political corruption isn’t a crime if you brag about it, America’s war machine is being turned on its cities… Oh and the US is building full on concentration camps.
It’s a very strange time even compared to occupy, The tea party, or Bush riding out 9/11 Reading a children’s book in an elementary school.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 weeks ago:
Imagine you’re finishing in 8k, so you want to shoot higher resolution to give yourself some options in reframing and cropping? I don’t think Red, Arri, or Panavision even makes a cinema camera with a resolution over 8k. I think Arri is still 4k max. You’d pretty much be limited to Blackmagic cameras for 12k production today.
Plus the storage requirements for keeping raw footage in redundancy. Easy enough for a studio, but we’re YEARS from 8k being a practical resolution for most filmmakers.
My guess is most of the early consumer 8k content will be really shoddy AI upscaled content that can be rushed to market from film scans.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t read the DOT code in a while, so I genuinely don’t recall if they’re mandated, but I recall that all my trucks had them.
This is of absolutely no use in preventing people from a close merge on the passenger side where the driver definitely cannot see. Often the driver’s first indication that this has occurred is the crunch. I’ve never seen one of these accidents that wasn’t completely avoidable.
- Comment on YSK that you can usually tell news site's bias based on how complimentary the picture they attached is 3 weeks ago:
There was a very high profile case of this when Jill Greenberg bragged about intentionally duping John McCain into standing in unflattering light during a shoot for a profile piece in the Atlantic during his presidential campaign. She lit him from below with hard light to look old and and creepy. His team was clearly not that media savvy.
The atalantic disavowed her actions and I think apologized.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
I used to do fleet management. It’s so bad. I never would have believed how many people take clearance signs as suggestions.
And the drivers test should include a “show me where the truck driver can and can’t see you” portion.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 4 weeks ago:
Particularly when so many trans men who have lived as women previously have come forward to validate how much more isolated men feel.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 1 month ago:
Due to the inherently competitive nature of living in a society that competes for resources, many people assume that a kind, upbeat person will be easy prey for someone tough and pushy. They lack the emotional intelligence to understand that you can be both kind and assertive.
In reality, you catch more flies with honey. Pretty much every study of game theory concludes that nice but assertive is the optimal strategy in any ongoing interaction. A nice person with a backbone is likely to be healthier boundaries, lower stress, and better relationships with people.
- Comment on I love Lemmy 1 month ago:
It is a bit of a utopia for a privacy minded Linux fan. Most social media I’ve had to find my community. Here it is THE community. It would take an effort to avoid it.
And you have a nice day too.
- Comment on The long hard road 1 month ago:
Just say you make bat soup. Don’t try to make it sound fancy.
- Comment on Please tell me 1 month ago:
There is so much of that kind of marketing at this point, that it had not occurred to me until reading this discussion that “Liquid Death” was intended to ironically over the top.
- Comment on YSK: What are 'forever chemicals' and why do they matter? – DW – 07/15/2025 2 months ago:
The problem with banning it all together is that there are hundreds of critical applications for which they’re really is no alternative for PTFE, PCTFE and various derivative products.
Could we get by without Teflon pans, stain resistant fabric sprays, and consumer spray on dry lubricant… Sure. I’d really like them to take it out of food packaging. That would be nice.
But the world needs to interact with incredibly strong acids, and cryogenic temperatures and all sorts of other things for which human lives depend on having an absurdly inert material.