thawed_caveman

joined 2 years ago
[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is the kind of thing where the worst you can do is be a little cringy. Why not

I've started saying therein, thereto, therewith etc, because i feel like it makes it easier to build a sentence and it's also easier to pronounce than the alternatives.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

This man is hoping and praying that he doesn't get the job. Literally pleading not to be sent off for years to a foreign country where they eat halal beef and no bacon lmao

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 89 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

This is actually an ongoing process starting with the Vietnam War and the war on terror.

I'm only barely old enough to remember how, in the 90's in Europe, everything that came from the US was cool and everything local was lame and embarassing. People older than me probably remember it being even more so before.

Nowadays that's only true for movies. I genuinely think that the US's imperialistic behavior has spoiled the goodwill earned from WWII, in combination with the internet shattering the monoculture that the US used to dominate.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

To be fair, if they're deporting US citizens, they can't deport them back into the US can they? Have some sense /s

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

This has to be one of the most photographed people on the planet, but i actually wonder if there's any footage of him running? Like even a light jog? We've got footage of Bernie in a light jog, can you picture Trump jogging in your mind? If you asked an AI to show you, would it fail because no reference footage exists?

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I've been to many protests, and oddly enough i enjoy the feeling of freedom. Normal traffic rules don't apply and there are no cars, suddely you can walk in the middle of the street which is normally a forbidden space. You can dance, you can shoot fireworks in the middle of town, you can do loads of things that you normally can't.

Normally there's a nebulous sense that this space doesn't belong to us, it belongs to landlords and the state maybe? You don't feel a sense of ownership. But when it's being taken over by people in an unorganized way, now it feels like this space belongs to you.

And yes i'm french lmao

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I can understand why you wouldn't want to draw this, it's a very room temperature 20th century take; but that doesn't make it okay to use genAI for it, that makes it worse. Now it's also cheap tacky and supports garbage companies.

Yes, the worst thing about this is that it's a shit idea, it doesn't refer to anything specific and there's something annoying about the binary format itself; but it's made way worse, not better, by also using technology developed for profit, through theft, by sillicon valley tech firms, at the cost of an enormous waste of resources, for no purpose other than shareholder value.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It looks like the back of a bolt action merged with the front of a semi-auto. What the fuck is this thing

EDIT: there aren't many rifles that do bolt-action and semi auto, but some of them do. If that's a real gun, then that narrows it down tremendously.

It's at this timestamp in the video, no additional angles, but you do get to see that the bolt opens straight up 90°, and also there's a flash hider. I think this is a drama that takes place in east germany? That narrows it down too.

The front sight really reminds me of an SKS, except not... It's like an 8-shaped peice with three holes that do front sight, barrel, and gas tube.

The rear sight looks like nothing i've ever seen. Doesn't look like the leaf rear sight that i associate with bolties.

The tube under the barrel is not bayonette storage because there's a weird plug at the end of it, it looks like you could rotate it and disassemble the tube.

Regardless if it's a real gun or not, the fact is that someone made this at some point, and i can't guess why they did it this way lol

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I speak french and the french article says exactly what the english article says, except the english article has a lot more information.

It even includes the previous cases of kidnappers targeting people they thought might have large crypto holdings.

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Move aside, i'm crossing this picket line

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's per week.

500 x 4 = 2000/month

2000 x 12 = 24k

By all means i'd love to split restaurant bills with you ;)

 
 

I've been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.

I'm leaving for two reasons:

  1. Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)

  2. April 1st is coming and i'm scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don't want to feel obligated to participate again.

Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i've been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor


EDIT: there are too many comments to respond to, but i've appreciated all of them! Thank you

 

today i remembered an idea for a meme that i had years ago and forgot about, enjoy

 
 
 
 
 

Whenever a forum dies, a lot of answered questions are lost that would have been useful to people googling it in the future.

Reddit is like the mother of all forums, and it also has had a lot of internet history being made on it.

I really think we need a Reddit archive that is availabel for random people from Google. The best case scenario is that Reddit just limps on for years, therefore doing this conservation work better than anyone else could.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/909097

Almost always my movies even though i have tons of music, and always the most obscure shit. I have Disney movies and Breaking Bad, but people go for the auteur french sci-fi animated features.

Soulseek gives me much the same joy of sharing as torrent does, perhaps more so because it's one-on-one with a username instead of an IP.

It's very easy to contribute to Soulseek as opposed to torrent, you just mark your shared folders. I think there's probably more content as a result, at the cost of the inefficiency of multiple people offering the same thing. Which i'm not sure matters.

I don't know if the rooms are really worth it. You only get the messages starting when you logged in, so you can't catch up to what happened before; this problem is particularly relevant because most rooms are dead; those that aren't dead consist of a lot of vicious arguments; and it's live chat anyway, never my favorite format for discussion.

I prefer Soulseek to eMule just because it works, but i also found it simpler.

Unfortunately my VPN doesn't play well with Soulseek, apparently it doesn't support port forwarding? I'm not sure how to fix this. It may in fact have been a problem when torrenting too the whole time and i didn't notice.

Overall i really enjoy Soulseek and will probably always have it in the background, it's pretty great!

 

Almost always my movies even though i have tons of music, and always the most obscure shit. I have Disney movies and Breaking Bad, but people go for the auteur french sci-fi animated features.

Soulseek gives me much the same joy of sharing as torrent does, perhaps more so because it's one-on-one with a username instead of an IP.

It's very easy to contribute to Soulseek as opposed to torrent, you just mark your shared folders. I think there's probably more content as a result, at the cost of the inefficiency of multiple people offering the same thing. Which i'm not sure matters.

I don't know if the rooms are really worth it. You only get the messages starting when you logged in, so you can't catch up to what happened before; this problem is particularly relevant because most rooms are dead; those that aren't dead consist of a lot of vicious arguments; and it's live chat anyway, never my favorite format for discussion.

I prefer Soulseek to eMule just because it works, but i also found it simpler.

Unfortunately my VPN doesn't play well with Soulseek, apparently it doesn't support port forwarding? I'm not sure how to fix this. It may in fact have been a problem when torrenting too the whole time and i didn't notice.

Overall i really enjoy Soulseek and will probably always have it in the background, it's pretty great!

 
 
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