Cyv_ @ Cyv_ @kbin.social

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In a similar vein, I'd like to remind my apartment complex that your emergency maintenance line doesn't count as an emergency maintenance line if nobody answers it outside of business hours.

Especially if you only call me back after leaving a message Saturday, on Monday morning. The AC was broken and luckily it wasn't dead of summer, but it still hit 90 something inside Sunday, and god forbid it was flooding or something like that.

Ublock origin on firefox. Never forced an update, never did any fiddling with block lists. Never got a single warning or notification, still works perfectly. Huh.

Family owned to me sounds like:

Nepotism abounds probably, half the shareholders inherited wealth and didn't earn it, so they probably don't know how to run the company as well as the people who built it, enjoy the "we're all a family" talk, while your manager hires his son timmy to be your boss despite zero experience or qualifications.

My favorites are ffxiv, because the music is very closely woven into the story with motifs and stuff, so it brings me back to it. Its also just pretty as fuck, they do a lot of weaving other songs and musical themes into other songs, so a lot of the time you'll be in a boss fight and recognize a theme from earlier, mixed in with the boss music. Some context is spoilers, so I won't go into it, but the Endwalker final boss has the music shifting from each previous expansions themes, morphing and shifting to fit the overarching boss theme, and its fucking glorious.

Ffxiv examples:
https://youtu.be/NBIRYjP1NNM?si=YdjJPyqtXYIX1BEE
https://youtu.be/6ugtWTiNqw?si=ZbpCcY4ysCC8Xti

Also, the ace combat games have the most insane music, its basically a meme that "everyone's a badass until the sky starts singing latin at you" Its this really cool mix of operatic vocals and rock/synth music and its so fucking good.

Ace combat Examples:
https://youtu.be/80XAJKqRU9k?si=Iyns3Y8dyGXZbneo
https://youtu.be/-kVdCaczLE8?si=a6MiBUoXJZffMBVv

Ah thx i figured it out, its ! [link text] (url) no spaces, on kbin at least

Do it!

I don't even have to torrent, I have like 3 sites I can just go to, search for content on, and stream video from like a shittier netflix. Adblock keeps them relatively sane, and I sometimes have to try different server sources, but otherwise it works fine.

I wouldn't mind a general vote each election of "keep or dismiss" for supreme court justices. Might want it to be a higher bar than just majority rules, like how an amendment requires 2/3s, but something more like 60% feels reasonable. So if a justice is just obviously corrupt or a piece of shit they can get removed without it being a simple "every year the majority party wipes the court" affair.

Or maybe basic majority would be fine, I just worry about it becoming a revolving door that encouraged lobbying and shit. I just feel like there's no ripcord for shitty justices.

My nerdy dad liked to tell us to "watch out for orcs!" dropping us off places. I carried on the tradition, and even though he passed a couple years ago I get to enjoy his joke since my SO and I say it to each other all the time, or variations of it. If its a water related destination I like to evolve it to "watch out for orcas!"

We've been playing Baldurs Gate 3 lately so its been "watch out for mind flayers!" a couple times, but the point is just a silly reference to something we love, just to add some goofy fantasy to an otherwise normal day. I like to imagine Orcs popping up irl in goofy ways when I hear it, like one charging the car while I wait for the atm thinking its some great metal beast. Or taking all yhe ground beef at the grocery store for a "great feast!" Plus one box of twinkies. Dumb shit like that :)

Good, keep it rolling. Vote every chance you get.

I'm just sitting here on Kbin wondering what the hell is happening, and eating a cookie.

Anyone else want a cookie? They're peanut butter chocolate chip!

Edit: oh ok I read about whats happening. Wow. What a mess. You guys seem to hate eachother with a passion so I feel like defederating is the only way to keep things from being a constant flame war. Though I will say I definitely lean towards the "hexbear is a little batshit" side of the argument lol.

I think canada explicitly includes 2S for two spirit since they have a lot of indigenous people to whom its culturally important, so it does seem longer than most cases where 2S ends up under the + umbrella.

I use it on android, so I cant speak for ios, but this is their github page: https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager

To clarify, its less a virus running from watching, and more "check out this useless software plz click me" and the software is bloatware that wants a bunch of permissions to suck up data. Or ads for psuedo pyramid schemes or "lose weight fast" sort of shit.

So virus is probably the wrong term, technically. But bloatware, useless garbage, and scams, absolutely.

ReVanced. Youtube ads are either scams or viruses half the time, and they're exhausting mentally to deal with. I'll buy merch from people I want to support, because fuck google.

Dorfromantic: chill satistying game about building a landscape out of tiles, and matching biomes/rivers to get more points.

Minecraft on peaceful: I like to do weird redstone projects in creative too.

Titanfall 2/old school shooters: its weird but I blast music and play stuff that I can do mindlessly. And for me that's deathmatch style shooters, where there's no objective or anything, the respawn time is short, and you just run aroind blasting stuff.

Open world games with time wasting sidequests: So most assassins creed games, corrupted zones/trials in HZD, wandering skyrim, etc.

Edit: forgot, Mario Kart, its just fun and silly and I don't mind just doing dumb shit and coming in last, so long as I hit koopa troopa with all the red shells because its dumb and I'm attacking him with his own brethren!

Walchohol

If you wanted to ask about algorithms or if mods/admins can manipulate content then you can just ask that. Instead you asked if the platform was biased, and brought up negative trump posts as an example. Of course people thought you were upset because the dear leader was being smeared. Just ask the damn question without all the "ok but the biden stuff is just as bad and also this isn't about politics, now lets talk about politics as an example of the bias I'm seeing"

Can you see how taking the question of "does this website allow vote manipulation by admins or have algorithms biased against certain viewpoints" and framing it around "I see a lot of negative posts about the man being indicted for an attempted coup, and that feels wrong" might give people the impression your just upset people are shitting on trump?

We know how social media works that's why many of us are here. To avoid the algorithm rage baiting bullshit. And you walked in like "hey folks do you guys just manipulate information here? I feel like you do. Here's a highly controversial example where I feel you are. But please don't bring up my example, because its not about politics"

The site presents posts based on user upvotes/boosts. The bias you see is the bias of the userbase. You wanna counter it? Vote and add to discussions. You just want it magically balanced? Curate your subscribed content like hell, or use multiple different websites with different biases. Forum style sites will always lean one way or the other, because whatever gets upvoted becomes the front page and attracts like minded people when they visit.

Who are you fuckin thanos? The world isn't balanced, both sides aren't equally shitty. Obviously you disagree, so if you don't like seeing opinions you disagree with make your own instance, or leave lol. Why you still here whining when you made up your mind the moment you posted? You can do what you want but this is just silly.

"Hey guys I don't like the content on the front page"

"Ok uh, well thats what users wanted to see so... You're outvoted"

"But I don't like it"

"You can curate your communities I guess?"

"But so many people disagree with me and I don't like it, it must be site wide collusion to manipulate the content because that's way more likely than people just generally disagreeing with me"

".... Ok bud well bye"

"But wait I don't like it it challenges my preconceived notions"