Powderhorn @ Powderhorn @beehaw.org

Unemployed journalist, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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The hed being a misdirect is the main problem to me. The content? Meh, shilling one's own book in opinion sections has a long and storied tradition on both sides of the pond, and it's carried over to online.

Has it gotten worse? I'd agree it has, but I'd also argue audience fragmentation is the cause. With book reviews being on life support compared to, say, the '80s and even into the early '90s -- when any serious metro had a Books section on Sundays -- self-promotion has become ever more important.

Time was, an NYT book review, a late-show appearance and a book tour were pretty much the only tools in the box. Now you need to be on 18 social networks (hiring a videographer [money] or learning to do it yourself [money + time]), and penning this sort of piece is a way to throw one more iron into the fire at very low cost.

I'm not saying the execution is good here, but you can't really call this a Guardian problem.

I mean, I've written plenty of pieces like that. Opinion is more observation than calls to action -- I kept those in staff editorials, which I'd write in Voice of God.

Were there a clear way out of this mess, we'd be talking about President Harris. Historical context is important, but it needn't -- and can't -- go all the way to "these situations are exactly the same, and here are the solutions." There's also the matter of how many early resistance documents survived the war, given the Nazis' penchant for banning and burning.

But I agree with the thesis that as people realize they've made a terrible mistake -- today, tomorrow, in a couple of years -- we should show compassion (but I'd stop short of forgiveness). There's not really a path forward when we can't engage with people who admit they were wrong.

Looks like CashApp is live in the UK, but only for domestic transfers. Venmo, on the other hand, is U.S. only. But I appreciate the offer.

Even bus fare aside, there are other complicating factors, such as the lock being broken (I can deadbolt lock from the inside, but I can't lock it when I leave) leading me not to want to spend hours away from the truck. It's not like I'm armed or anything, but the few break-in attempts I've had ended very quickly and peacefully when I emerged from the cargo area.

Literally all my worldly possessions are in here, so best case, someone rifles through shit and takes the stuff they like. Worst case, they know how to hotwire.

I appreciate your kind words, but if I listed all the complications, no one would read the whole thing. The connectivity issue just piles onto the Gordian knot.

I've so far gotten about $45 from a user I don't think it would be appropriate to name for the Fediverse to see. Calls still out on other sources, but no movement. For context, I started the day with $3 in my account, so this is an order of magnitude of improvement.

Predicting the future is not the purview of news heds. This is a question hed in disguise, though ... move "could" to the front, and that's what you have. It would have been good practice to throw something like "Analysts:" to provide clarity that the paper isn't asserting this nonassertion.

That said? Oil prices will definitely open higher tomorrow.

It's not as simple as that. Most U.S. refineries were designed for a different grade of crude than shale produces. Record output, sure, but we can't do much with it once it's out of the ground in terms of fuels. I'm not familiar with the chemical and plastic workflows, so I can't speak to that also being an issue.

Fracking has helped keep down the price of oil, but only because it's a global market, and other countries are better equipped to refine what we're producing.

It's almost as if cavalierly carving up the Ottoman Empire according to European goals wasn't the best of ideas.

I've been very pleased with Mullvad for the reasons you cited. It's based in Sweden and has endpoints globally. 5 Euro/month, no autorenew, and you can buy as much time as you like at once. Sometimes I do three months, and if money's tight, just one.

It's been far too long since I watched that.

Thanks for the levity in this situation.

Let's just set aside you feeling bad. You're not following Beehaw ethics. Your problems are not our problems, and we're not big on griefposting.

Go sealion somewhere else.

As in Riefenstahl? I mean, there are ways to be more subtle.

That is a lot of words that go nowhere. What is your thesis?

I waited several hours to respond after reporting this to the admins. Regardless of whether they respond as I'd like them to, this is complete and utter bullshit. And I'm going to play the mod card here ... it's just politics is not where I have the ability remove things.

Because I would here.

The content does not back the headline. I watched the full video, and it's historically accurate. At no point does he veer into Nazi apologia. Saying shit happened is not being an apologist.

I've noticed that more and more things are breaking on a VPN. That's my first guess. I've allowed all domains through on NoScript, but the dropdowns don't do anything.

Takeout is offering no options other than CSV.

My god, they have a blinking construction barrier.

As with your other link-shortening post, this is not how things are done on Beehaw. That you're using two different link shorteners to head to the same domain, there's a whiff of intentional misdirection.

Use the original source as the link.

In the future, please post the original source, not a tinyurl link that obscures it.

Reading through the documentation, SponsorBlock being baked in has nearly sold it for me. That said, I've been building up my history for years and am never shown anything outside of what I might enjoy watching. Is there a way to import that?