arquebus_x @ arquebus_x @kbin.social

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At the very least, TWOK takes the position of "best Star Trek film" simply because all the other ones are worse. (And I'm someone who thinks TFF is good, actually.)

Ever gone through a Walmart checkout?

I've never seen longer nails than on those cashiers, and they have to press buttons and touch screens all the damn time.

It’s not just 20-somethings. I’m 50 and still have $53k in student loan debt.

1. No tankies.

That’s pretty much it. I went with kbin.

My girlfriend works on T-cells (she's not affiliated with the group in the article) so I understood about 4% of the science!

Here are my personal favorites:

AI War / AI War 2 - Pablo Vega
Dragon Quest series - Koichi Sugiyama
Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu
Final Fantasy XI - Nobuo Uematsu and others
The Last of Us - Gustavo Santaolalla
Medal of Honor - Michael Giacchino
Offworld Trading Company - Christopher Tin
Stellaris - Andreas Waldetoft (I didn't notice that this game was just an idle clicker for a long time because the music was so damn good)
Tidalis - Pablo Vega (especially the piano versions)
A Valley Without Wind - Pablo Vega

I can imagine a very edge use case for an app cleaner, but for most purposes - 99% of users - there's really no reason for it. Macs don't have a Registry. If you remove the application itself, all of its ancillary files in Application Support and elsewhere will just... not do anything. And they won't interfere. They won't interact in any way with anything else on your computer. And in most cases, they're tiny files. There's functionally no reason to care that they're still around.

I make 30 minute videos with ads at 10 and 20 (with natural breaks) and refuse to do more than that because ewwww. (The automatic ad populator puts like 10 ads in the same amount of time. It’s insane.)

My channel is tiny and I still manage about $25/month (making money isn’t my goal) so I feel like my limits are good. I’d rather someone watch my stuff than bounce because there are too many adds.

Copyright doesn't cover elements that are not the product of human labor, which means it does not cover physical bodies or faces or voices or anything like that.

What you're describing falls under the classification of personality rights.

What makes copyright bad but identity protection good? Copyright prohibits the unauthorized duplication of your actual labor. To my mind that's more egregious than simply copying the shape of your face.

I'd be a lot less pissed off if someone copied my face than if they copied something that actually took me effort to produce.

They're just dumb, typical tankies. It's a lot more common than you might think.

One of the essential features of ADHD is the rapid attenuation of the reward system, leading to a biological resistance to the "dopamine rush" that neurotypical people feel. (For me, it manifests most clearly in the fact that I have never in my life felt anything like the "runner's high" after exercise, although every neurotypical person I've spoken to says they feel refreshed, rejuvinated and pleasantly tired afterwards.)

This stems from the fact that the built-in reward system (the positive emotional response to performing/completing a task) attenuates very quickly in people with ADHD. By that I mean that while the response happens, it very quickly drops back to zero. Much faster than for people without ADHD.

This, I suspect, is one of the fundamental aspects of ADHD and why it's characterized by attention deficit and hyperactivity. Hyperactivity happens because in order to maintain the effects of the reward system we have to do and do and go go go over and over and over again. And we have attention deficit because our interest in any given thing drops extremely quickly, since the reward of experiencing it goes away almost immediately.

I think people around here have a vastly overestimated opinion of how important the fediverse is to other social media sites.

Within the first 7 hours of Threads, they had 10 million users.

Meta absolutely DGAF about us. They don't have to. Using ActivityPub is at worst an anti-monopoly play. But by the time they turn on federation, all of the people who were going to leave the fediverse for Threads will likely already have done so.

Their third and optional goal is to starve twitter-like fediverse apps from users. [...] Thus robbing mastodon, calckey, pleroma, etc from potential users and attention.

They can (will) do that without federating. Federating (or not) is not going to make any appreciable difference.

They can do that without federating. In the first 7 hours of Threads being open, they got 10 million users. There's nothing additional they can do to "extinguish" the fediverse simply by being inside it.

Any fediverse users who prefer Threads are going to go there anyway - remember, you have to create a new account on each server already! And anyone who detests Meta is going to stay in the fediverse regardless. They're here now, when the fediverse is minuscule. Nothing Meta can do is going to make the fediverse smaller.

Most people in this thread have a vastly overestimated opinion of how large the fediverse is, how relevant it is to social media overall, and how much any other social media company actually cares about what's going on here. If every server defederates from Meta, Meta will just shrug and go on with its day, and continue siphoning users off anyway. Probably even faster than before, because there will be no way for fediverse users to see the Threads stuff they want to see. They'll have to explicitly re-home over there. And what are the chances they'll stick around on the fediverse after that?

I think you are wildly overestimating the stickiness of the fediverse. The sorts of people who will prefer Threads are going to prefer Threads whether or not it's federated. On the other hand, the sorts of people who prefer the fediverse will never switch to Threads even if it becomes the smoothest experience ever. But the latter cohort is likely much, much smaller than the former.

I'm really excited about this, and the others I've seen being developed. What I would LOVE to see is an app that handles both Lemmy/kbin and Mastodon and makes multiple logins easy to manage and switch.

I'm treating the blackout like a strike, and I don't cross picket lines, and neither should anyone else. No scabs. No one should be agreeing to moderate a sub that has lost all of its moderators to forcible removal.