Evkob (they/them) @ Evkob @lemmy.ca

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blind brothers and sisters

No gender-neutral language for our non-binary siblings? For shame, comrade.

This comment reminded me, I have met some people who played in a French/German improv league (LIBER). They're based in Berlin and perform in both French and German. I'm not sure how they incorporate both languages, but I believe it's just a free-for-all, speak what you want, answer in whatever type situation.

but eyeing OnlyOffice because of their cloud service.

ONLYOFFICE ≠ OpenOffice

Je ne m'attendais pas de voir un thread au sujet de l'impro sur Lemmy!

The improv match format you're referring to is pretty much exclusively mostly a thing in the Francophone scene. L'impro-match, or l'improvisation gravelienne, or l'impro style LNI started in the 70s' in Québec out of the experimental theatre scene in Montréal, before spreading to other French-speaking countries.

The closest I've found on the Anglo side of things is stuff like theatresports or the Canadian Improv Games. There are similarities but the hockey theming is absent and the formats vary in multiple ways.

EDIT: I found this improv league in Spanish in Argentina who follow the same format with a direct link to the OG Ligue Nationale d'Improvisation. Like I mentioned in a reply to another comment here, there's also LIBER in Berlin, who play in both French and German. When the referee reads the theme card, they specify if the improv will be in French, German, or a mix of both.

I don't know about you, but whenever I've had schedules where I didn't get two sequential days off in a week I'd tire out waay fast.

In your situation, I'd probably pick Sunday+Monday as my weekend. You get the extra for working on Sunday, and you get to avoid the stressed people on Mondays. It is nice to have one conventional weekend day off, the other commenters aren't lying when they say working weekends limits social opportunities.

Facts in and of themselves aren't biased. Bias is introduced when you consider which facts get broadcast, and which don't. The context in which facts are stated also adds bias. I think that bias is fundamentally inherent to humanity.

You're probably right about people ignoring bias markers, but I was thinking more "incorporating your bias consciously, rather than subconsciously, throughout the article" instead of a bio or blurb at the top.

Here's the link on Github. It doesn't seem to be on the main F-Droid repo, only IzzyOnDroid's, so I don't know why the other commenter tried to link to it on the main repo.

I think this is part of a larger issue, in which people, even a lot of journalists I know, see news media as this bastion of neutrality and facts. It's a noble goal, which I do think journalists should pursue, but in reality any news publication will have biases. Even just which news you decide to highlight can bring up bias, let alone the actual things you write about the news.

Things would be a lot better if every journalist, whether right-wing, left-wing, or centrist, were upfront about their views and how the environment they're in shapes them. Bias is unavoidable, but being upfront about your biases can at least properly frame your views.

I like Fluent Reader, it looks nice, can fetch full articles, and IIRC caches them locally for offline viewing, don't quote me on that last one though.

When you post a link, you can add a thumbnail image URL! In the default lemmy-ui, it should be right under where you upload an image :)

The Liberals need to run an ad around this, this made him more likable and relatable than anything I've seen about Carney.

I keep loosely-categorized lists of movies and shows to watch. Whenever someone I know, or someone on a Lemmy thread, mentions a show or movie they like, I look it up. If it looks cool, I add it to the list.

Granted I'm not a huge TV or movie person, but for me this list grows faster than I can watch it.

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People, basically someone calls in to talk about anything they want with the host (comedian Chris Gethard). The caller can hang up any time, the host must hang up after exactly one hour.

People call in to talk about so many different things, and Gethard is really good at getting people to open up in a very genuine yet casual manner.

Oh, I've never played CS 1.6 so I can't directly comment but the main thing I hear is how different the mechanics are.

I imagine nostalgia plays no small role, as well.

They're completely different games, but if you're unfamiliar with the Counter-Strike series I can see how it can be confusing.

Counter-Strike 1.6 refers to the original game in the series, which ran on the GoldSrc engine. The "1.6" refers to the final release of this game from 2000.

The next installments in the series were Counter-Strike: Source (2004) and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012) which both ran on the Source engine.

Counter-Strike 2 was released in 2023, as an update replacing CS:GO. It runs on the Source 2 engine, which is to what the "2" in the name is referring.

Oops, I didn't see that part of the question, my bad! I sure hope rice stays affordable, that and tofu represent like half my diet :P

Lentils and potatoes for sure, but we don't really grow rice in Canada. There are some [examples] (https://chathamdailynews.ca/news/local-news/chatham-kent-home-to-canadas-first-commercial-rice-crop), but we get our rice from the US, Thailand, and India, as well as many other countries. I eat rice very regularly and I have no doubt I've never eaten rice grown on Canadian soil.

I got a new job, and the group chat is on WhatsApp, so I'm looking into running a Synapse server with a bridge to it. I really don't want to have to use Meta's apps on my phone.

From what I've read so far, it seems like it's going to be the most convoluted install process I'll have encountered in my self-hosting journey. I'm excited to tackle it, but also a bit overwhelmed. Which is why I've been putting it off :P

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick. I've always loved this song, it has a mix of different styles, from flute-forward chill sections to more classic rock sounding parts.

Oh and it's over 43 minutes long. Before anyone says "oh but there's part 1 and part 2", this was a limitation of vinyl and not the artistic intent behind the piece. It's one song, fight me.