millie @ millie @beehaw.org

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Well, not really. Sort of.

2025/"04-28-2025.xls"

You still want the year in the title format so you have it if it ends up on its own somewhere.

What is this? Some kinda Oceans 31 Squad?

He already looks substantially worse than he did a week ago. I always forget how much that job ages people. Even Obama came out grey. He really doesn't look well.

Not to say this necessarily isn't the case, but are your drivers all up to date? I don't know how often I've heard people complain about shitty performance or weird artifacts in a game only to hear that the player hasn't updated their graphics card drivers in 8 months.

This is a sealion.

Sorting with either the month or the day ahead of the year results in more immediately relevant identifiable information being displayed first. The year doesn't change very often, so it's not something you necessarily need to scan past for every entry. The hour changes so frequently as to be irrelevant in many cases. Both the month and the day represent a more useful range of time that you might want to see immediately.

Personally, I find the month first to be more practical because it tells you how relatively recent something is on a scale that actually lasts a while. Going day first means if you've got files sorted this way you're going to have days of the month listed more prominently than months themselves, so the first of January through the first of December will all be closer together then the first and second of January in your list. Impractical.

Year first makes sense if you're keeping a list around for multiple years, but the application there is less useful in the short term. It's probably simpler to just have individual folders for years and then also tack it on after days to make sure it's not missing.

Also, like, this format is how physical calendars work assuming you don't have a whole stack of them sitting in front of you.

No to any consilodation. Trying to force people to a particular instance is about the most anti-fediverse move there is. If that's what you want, go make a subreddit.

I definitely noticed a lot of these kinds of accounts leading up to the election and have noticed that they all seem to have evaporated once the job was done. It's a shame more instances weren't able to do something to be more effective about containing and shutting them down before it was too late.

One thing I've noticed about Lemmy, which I find incredibly naive, is that many of the people who use it seem to think it's completely irrelevant. Like, I've seen people repeatedly saying that Lemmy or a particular Lemmy instance is just some tiny corner of the internet and let's not pretend it has any significant impact. That, to me, reminds me of the way people used to talk about the internet, and later the way people used to talk about reddit.

Lemmy doesn't have to be big to be influential. It's a collection of extremely online and often very politically vocal people. Conversations that start here have a potential to carry further. In many ways it reminds me of the early days of reddit, which had a much greater influence than was really understood at the time as well.

This may not be a huge platform, but that may actually make it a better target for getting a message out, because the signal to noise ratio is better. You actually have a chance to get some eyeballs on your topic of conversation and have some folks run with it. That then spreads out to the rest of the internet and to flesh-and-blood communications. It doesn't just stay isolated and contained here.

Lemmy is part of the world, a part that we're all engaging with. Let's not pretend it's insignificant to our own detriment.

You say that, but I remember the internet before all this shit. Print media once used to actually produce a product, which it sold in an actual physical store and through subscription services. Meanwhile, some outlets had internet editions, but the vast majority of what was posted online was being posted by people. You'd see a lot of excerpts, a lot of people's takes on things that were informed by articles they'd read, and a lot of websites and forums dedicated to particular subjects.

Then print media moved in and started begging us for their views, paying for them with ad revenue. They wanted our eyeballs. Then social media blew up and they got the visibility they wanted while contributing to the birth of the current terrible environment that is the internet today. Eventually, once they had the attention they'd sought from us, attention that we used to give each other, they started walling everything off.

Paywalls are part of enshittification. They're part of the degradation of the internet. And, surprise surprise, look where the degradation of the internet has led us.

This is absolutely part of what's failed us. It's the commodification of information. They literally started this subscription model clickbait bullshit.

This fucking paywall is part of what failed me. Money grubbing capitalist horse shit.

As much as I am not remotely bothered by the banning of TikTok (which seems like it may well not go through anyway), maybe we should start with banning the sites that literally funnel a bunch of heavy metals into people's mailboxes and cause actual known physical harm both to the naive people who still buy this stuff and to their neighbors, family members, and postal workers?

It's honestly disturbing to see the owner of the instance expressing opinions like he is in this thread. It makes me question what I'm doing here.

Is it not obvious?

These are people who have the power to save lives, and yet don't. Every day they could be providing affordable housing, medication, food, and other essential resources to people who don't have them. They may set themselves up with tax shelters in the form of charitable donations, but are they out there at tent cities getting homeless people set up with safety nets when their lives fall apart? Are they personally providing life saving medication to those who the health insurance system is killing for profit?

Every yacht, every private jet, every thousand dollar dinner, every vacation home, all of that is them deciding again and again that their own increased opulence is more important than lifting someone else out of suffering.

Amassing wealth in greater quantities than vast droves will ever see in their lifetime while people are lacking basic necessities is not a morally neutral act. Being obscenely wealthy isn't just an indicator of other potential moral failings, it is itself harmful and cruel. There's no need for anything else.

Being rich is itself evil.

I live in a very small city with a Walgreens and 2 CVSes, all within a mile or so of each other, and they all seem pretty busy. We also have a Walmart, a medical supply store, and a small neighborhood pharmacy, as well as two grocery stores. I think how busy your local drug store is is pretty variable. We do have a college in town and also a pretty active main street with a lot of shops and restaurants that bring in a lot of tourists and people from neighboring towns and bigger nearby cities.

But like, we have kind of a lot of CVSes and Walgreens around here and they all seem to do well enough. I don't think it's just that we're in a college town. Though, again, we do have a lot of colleges in general.

I honestly don't understand the concept of it being "easier" to make music. Like, okay, instruments can take a little time to learn. But, like, can you not whistle? Sing? Hum?

Music, to me, largely makes itself. Refining and recording music, okay yeah that's kinda hard. Memorizing other people's music and learning to play it the way they do? Sure. Composing something you're really happy with? Fair.

But just.. making music? I can't think of anything easier or more natural. You just.. make sounds happen.

Like, do y'all not whistle little original tunes and write silly little songs to sing while you're wandering around going about your day? It isn't rocket science. It doesn't have to be for anyone else or be flawless. There's joy and beauty just in letting it out of you. It feels great.

Getting an AI to write and compose some shit for you will never feel like that. It's just screwing yourself out of the joy and catharsis of expression.

Have you tried Discord? I've met a ton of people on Discord servers or in games that have a focus on Discord, and we talk at length on a regular basis, both in text and in voice. Hell, sometimes I'll sit in a voice chat with them and talk about nothing in particular all day or literally just sleep in digital proximity.

Instagram or any social media with DMs is probably shit for chat because it's literally not intended as a chat client. That's a function that's tacked on as an afterthought and usually pretty poorly.

Something like Discord, Element, or IRC is probably a way better bet. It's the same as trying to hold a conversation over email or Livejournal in the late 90s or early 00s rather than using an AIM, ICQ, YIM, or MSN client. Or like, IRC or even Palace or just some small web-based Java chat. You're just kind of doing it wrong, I think.

It makes no sense that they let this happen. Why just go along with it? Why not even try to use the power of the sitting Democratic administration to stop it? Why not push the trial to occur? Why not actually give a sentence with the charges against him?

There are so many things that could have been done differently. I've heard some people saying the Democrats wanted him in office, but I don't buy that. If that's what they wanted, they could have just done all the shit he's saying he's going to do himself.

I want to think it's some kind of long con to dismantle the Republican party or to innoculate us against authoritarianism as a society, but that doesn't really fit with his track record from the last time around.

I keep waiting for some last minute shit to happen and it keeps not happening. The Democrats didn't even try to argue that electoral votes for an insurrectionist were invalid. And now all these companies are rolling over to ditch any semblance of striving for equity before he even gets in the door. Not that I thought they were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, but shit.

I've been meaning to get a passport but the funding for the nonprofit I work for is looking dicey for the next year so I'm afraid to spend any more than I absolutely have to in case I need it for rent. Even if I did go to Canada, do I really want to do that if he's just going to invade it anyway? At least now I'm in one of the somewhat safer states. I'd considered going to Europe, but what happens when I sell my car to get there and then war breaks out or my visa flops and I have to go back? At least now I'm mobile.

Something has to give. At least in WWII there was this alliance of liberal democracies and communist states to fight against it. What happens when all of them are just.. absorbed by it? Europe doesn't have the force projection to do much of anything even if they had the firepower and the political backing. I suppose there's still hope for the US military refusing to obey unlawful orders and defending the Constitution, but that isn't exactly the most ideal situation either.

I suppose civilian institutions might resist the worst of it? State governments? Even the more hopeful scenarios don't look great right now.

This is not where I thought we'd be a couple of years ago. I saw the first Trump term coming when the DNC put their foot on the scale for Hilary. I did not see this.

While we're here, anybody notice that all those Democratic vote spoiling accounts literally disappeared into the aether the minute the election was over?

What the fuck? How is this legal to begin with?

The title gore of these headlines is a bit silly. I get that Amnesty International uses colons in its headlines, but burying the fact that it's Amnesty International saying these things just makes it look like the group they're talking about is the one saying it.

Eighty years ago a generation came together across 51 countries to fight fascism and put an end to a genocidal regime bent on conquering as much territory as it possibly could.

And then their children handed it all over without a fight over the next several decades in exchange for some trinkets and the promise of carrying their social and economic power to their deathbeds. What a fucking waste.