adam_y @ adam_y @lemmy.world

Synth noodling conceptual artist

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Ok, be me and my pals. Passing around a copy of a copy of a VHS tape.

As for getting hold of a film, no clue. We shared what we had. Each copy getting worse.

Occasionally meet someone who has new tape.

Then, thirty years later.

Read someone on the internet saying it's getting harder.

Have an upvote for opinion that is unpopular.

I was at one for the end. Here's how we saw it go down.

Hyperbole increased on the upper floor. Lots of "big talk " about the future and less chat about the job at hand.

There was a round of death rattle hiring where a whole bunch of people were added to the team.

Then last in first out.

Some of those new hires were there for less than 3 months before they were let go.

Then bloodletting. One or two redundancies a month. Their work being shared between the remaining staff. Told each round would be the last as the company restructured.

The worst bit, the people being fired knew they were going when they came to work in the morning to find they had been locked out of all the IT systems. They then spent the rest of the day sat around waiting to be summoned to be let go.

Meanwhile, the upper floor seem to be driving new cars and spending a lot of time outside the building. You also notice some new management faces and overhear chat about another business.

This massively increased workload and killed morale. Going to work felt like putting on your dead best buddy's coat and doing an impression of them to yourself in the mirror whilst you had to hold down your own job, which had gone from pressured with purpose to pointless slog.

But in return you are promised a raise in the future.

And then one day... You turn up. Your team are all stood outside. The doors are locked and the paperwork is on the post. Most of us got paid most of our last paycheck.

Me: Me: Me: Me: Me: Me:

Windoes!

I just meant that Linux, even in these communities is posited as something you try after windows rather than go to first.

Look, I know there's a certain romantic notion that Linux is "the rebel choice", but the truth is that it is the normcore backbone of the internet and the go to OS of a ton of academic ecologies.

So yeah, kinda obvious, when you think about it.

Yeah, I don't mind. Everyone has a survivor story.

Although it is interesting isn't it... That Linux usage is still seen in opposition to the horrors of windows. I mean, few come here talking about adopting in spite of having a great time with windows, or even without mentioning it at all.

I hope that one day it isn't seen as an alternative to but as a thing in its own right.

Maybe because we don't want to actively encourage a dystopian hellscape where people deliberately destroy themselves for entertainment.

I know it already happens, but the increased financial incentive will just mean the poor are even more likely to sell their health.

Pretty sure there was a short side mission about that in Phantom Liberty.

Best bit, we don't care.

I have a theory that we were designed to create a break. When the boomers finally die off, instead of taking power we just sort of step out back for a smoke and let the younger millenials take over, setting things right a bit.

Hey, the idea might have been a bit dodgy, but you are made of better stuff.

Credit to you.

Just thought, fuck it. Why no add a second elected chamber where each other community can elect a representative to have oversight on everything the mod does?

Let's democracy the hell out of this.

No moderation without representation. IOW: mods should be democratically elected.

Yeah, no.

Don't turn this into a popularity contest. One that can be bought and cheesed.

Who has time for oversight on that? Why not voter id too.

Is this first past the post or proportional representation?

Term limits, right? Does that include a hand over? How much of their term will be spent getting up to speed?

Where is the incentive to someone starting their own community if it is going to be taken from them when they've put in hard work for no money. Should they not be rewarded for their labour?

Will the inherent democratisation of communities alter the content posted on them? Should we place bans in meta-political posts that support only the incumbent mod?

What if they choose not to leave? Insurrection? Send in the troops?

My friend, I say this genuinely, you are trying to police the internet. Don't. It's a folly.

You have the power to walk away. You have the power to start your own community.

Do it and run it better.

And back to the democracy thing... Democracy is a wonderful thing in the governance of human civilization... It's not a fix for every situation you encounter that you don't like. It often means instead of having one asshole to deal with you'll get a carousel of different assholes on a regular basis.

Pretty sure he's not in the vacuum of space, but on some sort of vessel that probably has air con.

Balls old memery converted into tired dad joke.

50% of all shitposts come from Viz.

It's like the ancestral Eve.

Good but fake, right?

https://dataconomy.com/2023/12/29/microsoft-edge-deleted-tweet-real-fake/

I worked as a typesetter for years. I have a rather speedy reading pace (it isn't inate, rather through practice)... but I do wonder if not having to 'hear' words changes the rhythm of reading.

I'm also fascinated if other folk perform accents in their head whilst reading? Do different characters sound different or is there one 'voice' that acts as a narrator?

I don't have one at all. Spent ages thinking that it was just a figure of speech, but when I found out I became fascinated by it.

The current theory is that at some early point in our evolution we literally had a voice in our head, not unlike how some forms of schizophrenia present.

It's called the bicameral mind.

https://gizmodo.com/did-everyone-3-000-years-ago-have-a-voice-in-their-head-510063135

In my day to day life it makes little difference however, despite being an avid reader and writer I struggle tremendously to read aloud.

I don't know for sure but I suspect it is connected.

Damn, you're good.

You've missed off the sausage roll, you absolute savage.

Imagine a world where billionaires having petty arguments result in...

Yeah, we don't have to imagine. It's happening all the time. Shit service from streaming platforms, awful social media services. The very politics of our democracy. The media.

It's all dick measuring, all the time.