ElectroVagrant @ ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world

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ty, be sure to tend to u and ur pets' bone-connected (if so) eating assistants

Fwiw last I checked (and this may have been fixed since, haven't reviewed), the Lemmy software was bad about not providing any feedback when communities set their languages, meaning if people tried to post or comment with their defaults as-is (which back then was Undetermined as I recall), they simply couldn't and Lemmy wouldn't indicate why.

Due to this lack of feedback, I think many communities opted for undetermined to avoid confusing people by appearing broken. If I'm mistaken and/or this has since been adjusted to provide better feedback, let me know!

This headline and article are begging to be in c/NotTheOnion, yeah.

Screams:
My Christian nationalist flag has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my flag.

But when it comes to bad feels strong enough I cannot escape through gaming, then I talk or write about said feels.

Something genuinely useful I've found in this respect, that you sometimes see folks recommend, is writing one's situation out, their feelings, some mix of all of that, in a throwaway form. So, open a notepad file on a computer, hammer out some lines, thoughtfully, incoherently, for however long and let it sit for a moment or two; review it if you want but ultimately don't save it, close the window/file, and maybe it will have helped a little.

It may help even more if it's some pages from a physical notepad or something to write them out by hand and crumple or tear them up to toss out if one's feelings are more angry or upset.

This is a good list although i generally wouldnt bother listing yacy. Its only as good as the people adding to the list and thats not a lot.

Isn't that last point a good reason to mention it, to possibly increase the amount of people contributing?

Here's what you do:

Find a place still stocking it, see if you can find someone that knows when the shipments come in or contact info for the folks that ship it, stake out the store for when the deliveries come in to ask the delivery people where they load up their inventory or contact the shipping people for the address of the distribution center.

Okay, lot of work involved upfront, I know, but once you get the distro center's info, you're close to the gold. Figure out their operating hours and begin the heist plans, then execute them perfectly so that you come out with a lifetime supply of the drink. The next tricky part will be storage, but look at what you already learned you could do to get your prize. Next up? Squatting industrial refrigeration units until you've savored every lost drop of this stuff.

But I don’t want to seek out shows. There’s very little interesting stuff being released anymore. They ignore making products for groups in favour of making products for everyone, which results in products for no one. I cannot cope with that.

It seems like some other replies are glossing over this, and here's the thing: you gotta seek out interesting stuff. Many of the big tech algorithms are focused on the latest, hottest things, sure with some personalization tossed in related to your interests, but still more related to new and popular.

You want a heap of interesting stuff, you can't keep following what's trending, you gotta set out and seek out stuff related to your own interests. Not in a physical sense either, but poking around online.

Follow a Wikipedia rabbit hole. Find a director/artist you like, look at what else they've been involved with or done creatively, check that out however you can, then look at those they've collaborated with and if you like their stuff, check out their collaborators' work, follow the influences and inspirations. You will hit some duds, but you may also find some real gems the algorithms never woulda served up anytime soon.

What's more, the further back you dig, the likelier you are to come across that really weird niche work that some folks started out with, that got eyes on them before they may have "sold out" by working on bigger, more mainstream work.

None of this bothers me personally.

So the only part of any of this that does bother you is seeing people's complaints about something that doesn't personally bother you, if I'm following you correctly? Then why/how is it you've been coming across these complaints and why are you letting them bother you when it seems like nothing else about the situation is bothering you?

I don't really follow why, in a situation where you're seemingly by and large unaffected to the point that you really shouldn't have any complaints, you're complaining about those that were affected complaining about...Y'know, being affected.

Users that “suffer” from this likely need to simply replace the battery.

Maybe, but 1. Apple should have been transparent about the changes, 2. Apple (and frankly all smartphone manufacturers imo) should make it easy to simply replace the battery, and 3. making it easy shouldn't mean bringing it to their store or sending it in for a replacement.

by the Platypus? Yeah, they have a way of dropping knowledge like that.

Ngl, I don't like this justice but I like the hypothetical legal test of whether posting cat photos is state action:

Suppose, to paraphrase a hypothetical offered by Justice Neil Gorsuch, that an official uses their Facebook account both to post cat pictures and to discuss official business. Now suppose that one of that official’s constituents hates cats, and posts so many nasty responses to the cat-related posts that the official eventually blocks the constituent. Because blocking this constituent will also exclude them from the official’s government-related content, did the government official violate the First Amendment here?

I could go on at some length listing the many difficult questions that various justices raised over the course of the arguments. But the important overarching point here is that these cases are very difficult. And it’s not clear that it is possible to come up with a clear-cut legal test that will easily allow judges to distinguish between state and private action online.

Regarding the second paragraph, are there really no government policies in the U.S. regarding operating separate personal/work accounts if one is going to be communicating work-related info to the public on social media? It seems like that alone would have sufficed to mitigate the headaches of these cases.

Sometimes, yeah, particularly if it was a copy I let someone borrow but they never returned for this or that reason, or if it was a book I initially read through the library and wanted my own copy (digital or physical) to review whenever.

As of late I've been reading more nonfiction though, where one may be more inclined to review them for learning/reference purposes.

Beware that iirc, unlike Tor an[d] I2P, Freenet leaks your IP, so I recommend to use a VPN.

If it's using basic peer-to-peer tech, I suspect you may be right. Been awhile since I looked into it, and as I recall it wasn't really built for privacy so much as another way to share info with few limitations (hence the free in freenet), so it'd make sense if it did.

Terrible/wonderful compromise...Apumpkin Spider blend.

Nice photo! I almost mistook their tag for a lil' blep! 😂

They have received the blessing of the Moose.

use poor messaging

Speaking of, isn't the U.S. now charging for them/requiring insurance? Add that to the mix and of course fewer will get it.

Huh, it's been awhile since a post like this, forgot I didn't have anything in the sidebar/pinned post directing them to a more appropriate community.

This reads as more like venting, for which there's !vent@lemmy.world. If you'd like to start a discussion related to politics here, like how political polarization seems to be affecting people, that's okay, but this veers a ways off from that imo.

I generally don’t believe in intellectual property, I think it creates artificial scarcity and limits creativity. Of course the real tragedies in this field have to do with medicine and other serious business.

But still, artists claiming ownership of their style of painting is fundamentally no different. Why can’t I paint in your style? Do you really own it? Are you suggesting you didn’t base your idea mostly on the work of others, and no one in turn can take your idea, be inspired by it and do with it as they please? Do my means have to be a pencil, why can’t my means be a computer, why not an algorythm?

Limitations, limitations, limitations. We need to reform our system and make the public domain the standard for ideas (in all their forms). Society doesn’t treat artists properly, I am well aware of that. Generally creative minds are often troubled because they fall outside norms. There are many tragic examples. Also money-wise many artists don’t get enough credit for their contributions to society, but making every idea a restricted area is not the solution.

People should support the artists they like on a voluntary basis. Pirate the album but go to concerts, pirate the artwork but donate to the artist. And if that doesn’t make you enough money, that’s very unfortunate. But make no mistake: that’s how almost all artists live. Only the top 0.something% actually make enough money by selling their work, and that’s is usually the percentile that’s best at marketing their arts, in other words: it’s usually the industry. The others already depend upon donations or other sources of income.

We can surely keep art alive, while still removing all these artificial limitations, copying is, was and will never be in any way similar to stealing. Let freedom rule. Join your local pirate party.

Reformatted for easier readability.

^ buny