falcunculus @ falcunculus @jlai.lu

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You don't need a selfie there, just use the Gimp.

Lol this is brillant

I wonder the same, my theory is that this gesture is used both as a loyalty test and a way to further polarize society.

Making this gesture draws clear lines in society: those who say it was fine, those who say it wasn't, those who don't take a stance (ie the media calling it a "controversial gesture" or similar). So Musk & al now have a clearer idea of who stand where. It also cleaves those "for" and those "against" further away, solidifying their base.

Another explanation is this is part of the normalization of extreme rethoric and symbols. I doubt he could have gotten away with it ten years ago; who knows what they'll be able to do and say in 2035?

Yet another possibility, he did it on a whim and the neo-nazis like Bannon are now seizing the opportunity. It's unclear how planned this was and how intentional the consequences were.

(And all might be true at once)

Just curious, do you get 10¢ for every metaphor you write or something?

It is your opinion town centres are dying from not enough parking space?

This used to be the mainstream opinion back in the sixties, but nowadays basically any "revitalisation" programme will be removing asphalt, because small business health has been shown to be correlated with how well connected the area is to public transport, and how pleasant it is to loiter in.

My city hosts a number of cruise ships, and it was explained to me they can't be connected to the city grid, so they instead keep their diesel engines running the entire time.

It's a local air quality issue, and the bigger the ship the more it pollutes locally, even though it might be more efficient on a global level.

A far-right candidate (Nicolas Dupont-Aignan) proposed imprisoning French mujahideen in the Kerguelen Islands in 2016.

I choose to believe this is brilliant trolling

it's France of 1794. A bloodbath that ended, as it always has in history, with a conservative backlash and a dictatorship.

It didn't "end" with a dictatorship. Social change continued for a century, in which the people gained more and more power to the detriment of autocrats, until the establishment of today's strong liberal democracy. The millennia-old institutions that opposed this change couldn't be replaced in a day.

Mainstream western political theories holds the power of nations arises from their economy. What threat would Putin be were Russia incapable of producing weapons and supplying soldiers?

Sanctions therefore seek to diminish the power of Russia, counting on its economy being sufficiently interconnected with and dependant on that of the West.

In this context, sanctions hurting the common people is ultimately the point, because they're literally trying to make Russia poorer, and therefore the poorest will be hurt most. Sanctions targeting the ruling class (such as seizure of assets like yachts) are at best symbolic.

If you're unhappy why stay? Personally I'm happy with the Lemmyverse as it stands now — certainly happier than in the corporate lowest-common-denominator that is now Reddit.

It says Corvette C7 Z06 on the top one, so it can easily be compared to the underbody of the real one, which doesn't really look like that.

FYI the french high school curriculum includes lessons on (de-)colonisation, painting it as unjust and racist.

• At some point, a limiting factor just becomes art direction and budget. You can have all the fancy techniques you want, but you still need to make detailed textures, animations, etc.

Very possibly generative AI will alleviate this, although it has yet to produce convincing 3d models or animations.

According to MK, he was written to be gay, but higher-ups had him make his relationship with Huna ambiguous.

Even going as far as calling her husband an asshole (might be true, I'm not married to the dude).

You misunderstood the text, the sentence is :

If only I got a penny for every time someone said: you don’t look like a computer scientist, I could be Mackenzie Scott without having to marry an asshole.

She's calling Jeff Bezos an asshole, not her own husband.

Bash has an option for that you can put in your .bashrc:

    
bind "set completion-ignore-case on"

  

Other interesting options exist

You think people shouldn't be allowed to.. file lawsuits? This is all that has happened so far, there is no court decision yet.

Not biologically, but in heart!

"4 chords" is a cool mashup but it's not really a valid point in this conversation.

The songs in "4 chords" don't use the same 4 chords, because they are higher and lower than that. So you might say they use the same progression, but that's not true either, because they're not always constantly in the same order. So the best you can say is "it's possible to interpret pitch- and tempo-adjusted excerpts of these songs back-to-back", which isn't a very strong claim.

In fact there's a lot of things separating the songs in "4 chords"; such as structure, arrangement, rhythm, lyrics, or production. Another fact is that it's perfectly possible to use these four chords in a way that you've never heard before and would likely find bizarre -- it's a bit of meme, but limitation really can breed creativity.

This isn't to defend the lack of creativity in the big music industry. But there's more to it than just saying "4 chords" to imply all musicians do is follow an established grid.

First, what makes you think we can? It's a strong claim to put forth without evidence.

Second, I won't be there in the future, so I'd like things not get too bad in the meantime.