HipPriest @ HipPriest @kbin.social

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To be honest, I went to the cinema for the first time after covid last year and thought 'actually... I have not missed this'. Not because there was any bad behaviour in the audience, but I guess I just found that I didn't really care about seeing films in cinemas particularly. Maybe I was on an off day, but I think I've genuinely gone off going to the cinema.

It probably doesn't help that the only cinemas near me are multiplex types though. And this article doesn't exactly encourage me to book seats anytime soon!

https://www.removepaywall.com/

This makes absolute sense until they get to secondary school (ages 11-16). All the kids at school have mobiles. You might have put the best parental controls on your sprogs phone but someone else hasn't and his son - he's the one showing pictures and videos at playtime. The problem is that kids don't live in a bubble.

I'm in the UK, don't have a clue about what laws are coming in but am against this type of state intervention into private life of adults. Adults uploading id online is not something I am for.

But I am pretty much in favour of banning smartphones in schools with kids that age these days - I'm a very liberal guy but I've heard so many horror stories from friends that are teachers.

I actually think the main problem is the nature of the pornography itself. The stuff that comes up with choking and hair pulling and all that... There's porn which is just people getting it on but it seems to be this violent stuff that gets to kids first and that's the bit I don't understand. I'm old. When I was their age it was magazines of naked people. A more innocent time.

This was going to be my recommendation! A lot of fun and definitely a lot of Adams trolling the player going on...

The BBC put up a complete version free to play on its website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1z6wqcbQx8V5bpfltD5PQBg/how-to-play

It is a Kbin only thing but since I signed up to Mastodon recently it makes a lot more sense.

Because Kbin is tied to Mastodon if you use your Kbin account to also post to Mastodon by clicking 'Boost'

In Twitter terms, you're retweeting that comment or post straight to your Mastodon feed for your followers to see.

I set up a separate Mastodon account because I want to use them as different networks at this point, but I can see the appeal of having that ability to crosspost between platforms

EDIT And as the other person said, within Kbin if something is getting Boosted (ie retweeted) it will pick up on that and the comment or post will be pushed further up the list if you're viewing things by Hot or Top I think. But only on Kbin so most people here won't know

My initial thought I'll admit was this guy could be a crank. But actually it doesn't matter if he is or not, he's just clearly pointing out using the facts that Mozilla aren't spending their money on their products but on... Well something they're not exactly keen to tell anyone about.

If he's faked the documents that's different of course but that doesn't appear to be the case

(Edit for clarity)

That is indeed interesting. I would like to know more about the people they're giving huge amounts of money to who are political speakers. Does seem very odd

Same, ha ha! But it's about personalising the experience to what the user is interested in to my mind

For sure - and there's undoubtedly been subs that have had changes of mods for the worse. Which will have a long term negative effect.

Another long term effect is of course its heightened awareness to alternatives to Reddit.

I mean I don't think any of the people protesting actually thought 'yes, Reddit is absolutely going to back down as a result of the protests no question!'

What I think is pretty cool is that what was initially only going to be a two day black out that (from memory) 6000 subs signed up for turned into something much, much bigger. And got the CEO to say some pretty stupid things in black and white to the press to boot. It's done much more than it set out to do.

'Fuck Spez' was a stupid meme though. Should have been 'Fire Huffman' or something that meant something outside of Reddit users.

I've only had one thread conversation which really felt like a proper Reddit one (and it wasn't a political one, a TV related one).

It depends on your definition but for me it's roughly 'able to have civil conversation/debate without descending into attacks or points being dismissed because you don't like them and generally feeling like you're dealing with a 14 year old'

That said not every Reddit interaction is completely shit, it's just more likely to become that way

It's say it's one of the least pointless shops on the high street since it sells lots of household essentials or things that are practically useful, unlike the tat and trinkets you might get from some of the 'boutique' shops. You can get everything from paint, lightbulbs, weedkiller, toothpaste, draining racks to go on yer sink...

More useful than somewhere, like say Lush that literally sells soap that looks like frozen vomit. And nothing else.

Couldn't organise anything this lot, whether it's basic security for themselves or the people they govern... This should be a huge embarrassment but they'll spin it as 'eco nutters trespassing and crossing the line when it comes to protesting'

Aye, a big shame but same story as everywhere with high street shops - "what's it do that I can't get on Amazon cheaper?"

I've read Dante and enjoyed that a lot. It's interesting how Dante also puts a lot more of his contemporaries into the various parts of the afterlife then I was expecting; so footnotes can veer from talking about Greek mythology to minor figures from the civil war that had led to his exile. Which can be a little jarring sometimes!

This is on my to read list. I have an annotated copy to help because I've heard it's hard going but I know it's hugely influential and so keep meaning to get to it!

I studied it at university, it's an absolute classic. And it stays with you, I've not read it for over 20 years and can vividly remember small scenes

I'd just reply to it - I've got a good conversation going that way. Same night happen with you.

I think at worst you'd get silence, if you did get someone 'telling you off' the arsehole wouldn't be you

I'm a cis het guy (I think that's right?) and I'm just genuinely curious about why the labels we use have taken on such significance. I'm not some conservative 'this woke stuff has just got out of hand' person, more in a sense of have the waters become too muddy to navigate, and have we, in an an attempt to become more inclusive, done a bit too much Top Down classification.

Instead of just letting people be who they want to be and define themselves how they want to be defined without having to justify it? Because it seems from your post you're feeling the need to justify your use of a term which you feel applies to you where really... It's our language. It feels to me you shouldn't be put in that position

This is crazy, I'm in the UK and we have to do it ourselves, I didn't even realise it was a thing that people packed your bags for you just buying your food. For me that feels like a service you should tip for.