somebody in another post a few days ago suggested that this was about gaining control of the media narrative by gradually locking down parts of the internet. The idea being that today it’s adult content but tomorrow its about disagreeable narratives on YouTube, TikTok, and other secondary sources of Information.

-I’d think it were a stretch of the imagination but it was shown that the motives for trying to ban TikTok (in the U.S.) were the narratives shared on the platform about Israel’s ongoing genocide.

‘Feminist’ is one of those terms that seems to have different definitions based on who you ask. I don’t know what you call me but I’m a proponent of Equal Rights Amendment full-stop.

Coincidentally Wikipedia is the only website I can think of that I’d actually be remotely comfortable with having my identity.

CAD software.

FreecCAD just released it’s first full version and it’s a pain to use. Back in 2018 somebody said FOSS CAD software was at least ten years behind the big windows commercial software. I think now it’s about fifteen behind.

Oh man I said the same thing. The topless dead woman nightmare scene is seared into my memory.

That movie scared the hell out of me when I was in High School. I crashed someone else’s date to see it.

Event Horizon. I saw the first half as part of the second half of a double feature at the drive-in theater with my family. I think Men in Black was the first feature. I was 9 when I saw that topless dead woman scene. It’s such an underrated movie.

You made the polite decision to say “hi” to an old acquaintance and subsequently found out there wasn’t much to talk about. I hope in similar future situations you choose to make the same decision. -Minus the initial walk-away.

Also, as far as awkward situations go for me, this one wouldn’t register because I often find myself in much cringier situations. Anyways, se la vie.

I occasionally have a real conversation on Lemmy.

The U.S. at it’s best used to enlist convicts.

-take that whatever way you want.

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I’m pretty sure the “Car for programmers” is the 88’ Toyota Tercel, or something similar with zero electronics aside from the radio.

I went to an interview for Life Insurance sales. once the initial interview was over I was sent into a conference room where other interviewees joined me and we were pitched the idea of becoming life insurance sales-people which required studying, testing, and licensing which they insisted we all payed for ourselves. After a 20-minute pitch by some d-bag with frosted tips said “Growing up I always dreamed of owning a Maserati, after my success joining this company I drive a Maserati!” The moment he was done talking I got up, turned left and went out the emergency exit. I still associate d-bags with Maserati driver and that was close to twenty years ago.

That’s an interesting excerpt. I always thought the proper response to an identified whatabout is to simply say “I asked you first.” -That’s assuming the opposite party refused to respond to the initial premise, argument, or question. I imagine if they did respond to the initial premise, argument, or question then asking whatabout… is just a standard form of discussion and debate, or so I’d think.

That’s a good question, it makes me similarly think ‘What happens to the social contract when a nation & government no longer provide security to it’s own citizens?’

I spent my time fighting AppImages until Canonical started to force Snap on me. I hated Snap so bad it forced me to switch distros. Now I appreciate Flatpak as a result and I don’t find AppImages all that bad, either. Also, I haven’t found myself in dependency-hell nor have I crashed my distro from unofficial Repos in well over a decade.

-It’s a long way of saying It works for me and it’s not Snap.

If I don’t remember to take them off in my car(or I’m just feeling carefree) then Ill wear them inside because as long as it’s well-lit I can see better with my prescription sunglasses. If it’s dim then I do that thing wear I lift them slightly to peak out from under them to focus on important visual details like prices.

Might i recommend lemmynsfw.com?

Two days ago I watched a video by Explosions&Ire (PhD) when he began adding unknown amounts of chemicals he thought might work to produce a color change to his solution. He lamented that what he was doing amounted to “Vibe Chemistry.” In that moment I understood how inappropriate it was for a skilled programmer to do vibe coding.

I have a galaxy Xcover 6 pro. It still has all of the good features people want. My first smartphone the Galaxy S5 also had those.