ideonek

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[–] ideonek@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

You'll enjoy Spock's "I'm the X".

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

thank you! It felt like xkcd!

 

Can you help me find it? It presents a typical situation like:

  • I love LOtR (or something else)
  • what's that?
  • You never watched LOtR? It's impossible. How could it be? Etc etd
    Then it goes through the mathematics of the rate of discovering things through your lifetime to prove that even if something is popular, it's not unreasonable to be discovered by someone new. And it concludes that situation like those should be a moment of joy and excitement that you are witnessing someone discovering new great art.

Sounds familiar? Please help me find it.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

This is the part that resonated with me the most as the casual user. The interface is, so confusing that the differences between various forms of chats seems deliberately unclear. And all that's "useful" is opt-in. And Groups - most used in corporate or project setting, can't be encrypted at all? That's... peculiar.

Again, thanks for the eye-opener.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago

No, I can't stress enough how much I appreciate it. What I do right now is sending this article with TLDR to all my friends and family.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Any advice for people that used it in the past? After reading the article, my understanding is that what was sent in "private chat" was in fact encrypted (for the most part) and can be considered secured (to the degree - something is off and, maybe we didn't find out yet, how the encryption is compromised). But it would wise to treat all other conversations as something that is compromised. Is this a fair summary?

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, it was obvious to you. I'm a casual user, who tries to "do his best" and consider himself "somewhat informed" - obviously not by your standard. It was all news to me, and I find tremendous value in this article.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago

I don't know.... if only we have something like hard data from things like investing that could prove that women are better and making long-term decision and are less likely to make a rush decisions based on short-lived noise. You write like it's something we know from at least from early 2000s. It's not like it's a strong and growing consensus now, right?

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Is open-source washing really a thing? Any examples come to mind?

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

That is... a very good point. Not only in the environmental niche, we desperately crave more "it may be legal, but it needs to be stopped" stories. It would actually make more sense narratively. Gave them the actual reason to vigilante.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I ment Swamp Thing! Swamp Thing!

Albo, I think Poison Ivey is anti-hero now. So... progress?

Also, Also super heros are by defintion rectionary - it's a whole thing, there is a book about it. So you may hava a point.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

What his primary characteristic in your mind?

I agree how the filed is overall. He's a very small represnetiarion. But I stand by that he's a valid one.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I couldn't agree more. But I could live with the status quo of the environment, I think it could be done well... IF you are willing to let your characters change. But they insist on Batman that needs to stay broken even when he overcomes all his obstacles. He's a fantasy of a perfect man, right? He should be self-aware and smart enough to start therapy by now. He already raised a family of heros, and which one of them surpass him in some way... the only reasonable place for him to be is retirement. But as long as batman toys and movies are selling better than Nigtwing's no one will pull the trigger. At least not permanently.

I also moved to Superman - unfortunately I'm taking a brake on US culture until the president is in the office. But I can't wait to pick up where I left. Superman resonates so much more with me now.

I'm in a small minority that loved Superman revealing that he's Clark Kent to the word. It's consistent with his "truth" value, it opens to discussions ethics of having "all hearing" reporter who reports on things he's part of... it created fresh type of conflicts. And I loved his son, as a Superman who ask himself "should I be doing more and what more even mean"... I loved the House of El and the Superman's legacy...

You can disagree and it's fine. The point is, we deserve stories that are more than retelling the same one over and over again.

We could have the metropolis that is normalized with heros who address modern problems that became "norm" to readers. I want to know

But they will not play the long game, when the short term profits are on the line. Status Quo strikes again.

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