Priest is an electronic music project originally formed by ex-members of the hugely popular band Ghost. I'd call this Darkwave, but the label doesn't matter, it's depeche mode-y and don't let the gimp mask put you off, I believe the song is very sincere.
I can't stop, it's too late, it pours out, it's my fate
My legacy in black
Looking in to my eyes, see the things i despise
My soul is tainted black
I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
I'm free of all the lunacy
I never want it back, my history in black
Silent screams longing voice, violent dreams, ringing noise
My memory is black
It's not a mask, it's my skin
Please don't ask where i've been
My heart is painted black
I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
I'm free of all the lunacy
I'm never want it back, my history in black
I escaped from the cage inside
I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
I'm free of all the lunacy
I never want it back, my history in black
My history in black
It's a song that speaks to your flavour of depression. Makes you feel like someone feels the exact same way you do. That in turn makes you feel sane. Like you're heard. Even understood.
Over time, songs (or movies or other things) can become a ritual - you feel awful, listen to the song, eventually you come out the other side as the depressive episode fades. Then the next time it happens you associate the song with your recovery. So over time it becomes What You Do when you Feel That Way.
A black sun rises everyday /
Shadows cross my path as if to say /
"Change your life, change your ways, look up to the sky" /
Tomorrow'll soon be here then time to die
This is some loud stoner/doom metal. Cheesy? sure. Self indulgent? Absolutely. But when the mood strikes it hits the spot every time
As has been said I'm sure without Yahtzee the site is basically over.
Which is too bad I really enjoyed extra punctuation and the Slightly Something Else podcast. The whole point of having a subscriber model is that you're not beholden to advertising or the algorithm or nebulous corporate goals, as the hosts have aid many times.
I guess it goes to show getting acquired by a corp only ever benefits the corp
I believe that that "cancel culture" is really just "consequence culture." At one point users could hold powerful entities to account. The flattening of the public sphere twitter provided was a feature.
Absolutely there have been people who got targeted who did not deserve it - regular folks who posted a shit take that caught the mobs attention. But I think one of the motivations for Elon acquiring twitter and threads' non-chronological feed is to clamp down on this kind of of organizing and centralize power.
As for hate speech, the problem that is that any solution at scale means AI and that reveals the biases of those who wrote it. These solutions can't serve everyone.
And outrage fuels engagement - these companies are incentived to allow that.
So basically I think large networks can't solve the problem. What's needed is a decentralized approach with small interoperable communities vetting their members. Even if you get a hate filled instance it can be locked off so it can't spread. Hate-motivated jerks have always existed, they just had no real access to the discourse until the internet. I really think the answer is the fediverse of tomorrow - if we make it that far.
This is what I do, with one more category - I tip 22 or more to small, local businesses I use. Box stores or large franchises, not so much.
During covid, when I did order takeout we kept it to our favorite two places, hoping they'd survive, which they did. When we went back to in person it turns out I was known - it was a funny way to become a regular.
So I feel like it must have made a difference.
Anyway. The landscape is increasingly complicated and I think we've got to choose the one or two things that are important.
I'm waiting for all 4 to drop so I can binge them. I mostly don't want to hear about him - need to be in the right angry mood, like shortly after he does something monumentally stupid.
While I don't think he's doing some kinda 4 dimensional chess, I think he is trying to stay talked about, like Trump does.
It's a great podcast though. Been listening for awhile.
there's a conspiracy theory - use the fee as a way to normalize paying X for things and then pivot to paying through X for things until it's the fascist super app of elon's sweaty fever dreams.
i agree completely, and i've said it before, a small fee goes a long way to stopping spam and the bad kind of shitposting. It's barrier that a lot of actors, good and bad, can climb, but they'll be at least someone who can't or won't.
thing is, twitter has already eroded so much trust and relevance that i think for a lot of folks this might be the last straw. we'll see - much like the reddit rebellion it's hard to tell how many folks will actually quit from the noise alone.
For the fediverse i'm not certain at all. on the one hand many of us want the fediverse to grow and become more diverse. Fees are a barrier to entry. but i also agree, as you say, that mods and admins deserve something for their trouble - especially since their job is a lot harder on lemmy.
i hate to say, but maybe discord has it right? monetize cosmetics and stuff? i really don't know. Disclosure i am nitro subscriber, mostly for the emoji.
I quit smoking by gradually stepping back until I got to the last 4 darts, which I just couldn't shake. Then I moved to vaping, not trying to quit, but to be less worse for my health.. Then my vape broke repeatedly in a short period and I realized going without wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Certainly not as bad as other methods of quitting it tried. So in this way I finally quit.
So I don't recommend vaping as a way out really. It's more that if you consciously realize which cigarette is your last you're gonna freak out and relapse. It's more that if you reduce your intake, then replace, you can step off more easily. Don't focus on quitting or changing your lifestyle drastically, just keep taking steps. Eventually one will be the last.
As I said in the OG thread, I will stick with beehaw, but I'd also keep an eye on the fediverse with an alt. I would also support an eventual return to federation when/if some of the issues have been sorted.
For those who support the proposed move, this isn't about mere technical issues. It's about safety - it's very easy right now for a bad actor to cause a lot of damage the way things are set up. The reasons things are as good as they are here is the tireless work of the admins and mods and they if they say enough is enough I believe them.
While I think something like the fediverse is where the internet is going, Lemmy on activity pub may or may not be the way. Well just have to see. I'm not gonna leave a positive community in favour of a certain tech, that's backwards.
Is it just me or is search on mobile worse too? I find the message I want is often the second or third result now when sorting by "relevant." Switching back to newest helps.
I'm not put out by an extra step. It's that, as OP correctly says, I can't think of an update to a productivity that gave me anything I wanted. Instead updates seem to tell me I've been using the app wrong this whole time.
Here's the closest I've got.
Priest - History In Black
Priest is an electronic music project originally formed by ex-members of the hugely popular band Ghost. I'd call this Darkwave, but the label doesn't matter, it's depeche mode-y and don't let the gimp mask put you off, I believe the song is very sincere.
I can't stop, it's too late, it pours out, it's my fate My legacy in black Looking in to my eyes, see the things i despise My soul is tainted black I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny I'm free of all the lunacy I never want it back, my history in black Silent screams longing voice, violent dreams, ringing noise My memory is black It's not a mask, it's my skin Please don't ask where i've been My heart is painted black I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny I'm free of all the lunacy I'm never want it back, my history in black I escaped from the cage inside I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny I'm free of all the lunacy I never want it back, my history in black My history in black