Gifs yes, videos only in certain formats (like mp4), youtube videos not directly. And it seems to cause some minor issues between instances, so not everyone will be able to view the videos/gifs without workarounds.
Lemmy.world users seem to be able to view both the clip in the main post, and the embedded link in the description, but if you're on kbin then the first link won't work as intended.
If you want to post an embedded gif/mp4 then do it in this format:
The Life of Brian - no idea if it is "uncommon" but I haven't seen it being mentioned anywhere in ages. It has a weird and macabre but enjoyable mix of super dry English humor, whacky sillyness and actual satire, while still managing to tell a coherent story.
Grocery baggers. I'm German - we pack our own bags over here and most customers do NOT like others to fondle their groceries. We literally do not have any "baggers" in any supermarket, and if a cashier packs a customer's bags without being specifically asked to do so (basically never happens) the customer will take that as an insult - as if you're trying to say they don't get out of your sight fast enough / that you want to speed up their departure to get rid of them, or that you don't think they're capable of that super basic, simple task. It's considered rude and condescending.
A cashier is expected to scan the stuff the customer wants to buy, take payment, hand over the receipt and change, and then leave the customer and their groceries alone.
I've had pets all my life - to me they were family members and I dearly loved each and every one of them. Yes it hurts to have to say goodbye after a few years or even decades, but I would never decide to no longer want that light in my life just because it won't burn forever.
I wouldn't think differently about the humans that are dear to me, even if it's not the same situation. What's the point of throwing away love just because it doesn't last for all eternity? Why would anyone chose to not enjoy the time you can spend together for as long as it may last? Everything ends one day, that's the very nature of existence.
An AI would not have any interest in hoarding wealth, deliberately screwing over others for dumb, petty reasons, would not be able to have addictions, grudges, superstitions and the like ... I would actually prefer an AI running things over what we have at the moment. How much worse could it be?
Empathy is a completely natural instinct. Ever heard the phrase "humans will pack bond with everything"? People see another creature in distress and automatically feel bad for it and want to help, even when those are wild animals and potentially dangerous. Sometimes that instinct can even be triggered by plants or objects - a dried out flower with hanging petals looks "sad" to us even tho noone has ever proven that flowers are capable of such emotions. A stuck roomba trying to get itself unstuck looks as if it is struggling even if it just runs a pre-programmed set of motions. Yet most humans with a basic level of empathy look at these and immediatly think "oh no, poor thing!"
Whether or not the recipient of your empathetic feelings is real, or able to feel, that question is an afterthought. It is something that happens after your instinct has been triggered already.
... or should be, IMHO. I do not trust anyone who is able to somehow override that instinct and first ask whether or not the struggling creature/person "deserves" empathy, based on whatever criteria they deem worthy ...
I recently made the mistake of installing Avast, and it does the same annoying garbage. The actual settings are buried under a metric shit ton of "Did you know that...?" pop-ups that appear every single time no matter how often you select "do not show me this again", and it constantly urges you to buy the "premium" version for extra features that are literally useless to me.
And it was a pain to uninstall as well. Some files survived the official Avast uninstall AND separate uninstall from the Task Manager, and messed with the Windows Defender, which was unable to recieve updates for a while until I found and nuked the hidden residue of Avast.
There is no need to yodel like a drunk hooligan every time I put you in the transport box - neither the car nor the box ever hurt you, the vet only wants to help you, and screaming your little lungs out won't make any of it go by faster. And please stop trying to eat the fly screen, I'm tired of having to replace it every other month.
Quick edit to note that’s not directed at you, to be clear.
No offense taken, don't worry ;) And I fully agree ... Rowling is a malicious, hateful, spiteful asshole and deserves all the hostility she gets online and IRL for what she said, did and still does. There are no two ways about it.
Ah, forgot to mention where I work ... Southern half of Germany. To get to the coast, you have to either drive through all of Germany to the "other side", or cross the border to France or Poland or whatever. Sea-dwelling fish like Mackerels just aren't "fresh" here.
No idea if it's the same layout / icons in all browsers, but if you open the community you're a mod in, you have a box in the upper right corner with the community name, "shortcut" and two icons underneath, one of which is for edits (sidebar, banner, icon, language settings)
Completely fine with me. shrugs ... in that case you don't like the creation because it's not your cup of tea, and that the author also happens to be an ass is a separate issue. Dfferent people, different preferences.
supporting a person like J. K. Rowling financially
If I already own the books, I'm not going to toss them away just because the author is an ass. It doesn't hurt her anyway. And you can buy books, movies etc. secondhand, as secondhand stores, private sellers and the like don't have to pay royalties to the author. There are plenty of ways to consume their creations without supporting the creator.
Hear, hear. Another bullshit part about this is that they often explicitly ask for baker apprenticeship and/or certificates in the job description, and you still end up just tossing factory-made frozen dough clumps into an oven. Why do you first need to prove that you can make cakes and doughnuts and the like from scratch, in order to be allowed to toss frozen clumps from a factory into an oven? It makes no sense.
As for your comment; I am completely fine with people deciding for themselves that they no longer wish to engage with some creation because its creator sucks - that's a personal choice and I can respect that decision easily.
What I don't get are people who try to force that decision onto others, like going "...but the author is shit, so you HAVE to now hate literally everything they ever did, and if you don't then you're just as bad as them". No, I don't have to do anything of the sort - and that does not mean that I support the world views of the author. It only means that the world view of the creator hasn't ruined the creation for me.
Hey, just a heads up, but the capitalisation creates a broken link:
!pillow_talk@lemmy.world is clickable (everything in lowercase)