thawed_caveman

joined 2 years ago
[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 10 points 2 weeks 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 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Move aside, i'm crossing this picket line

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 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 ;)

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

It used to be that women couldn't open their own bank accounts. Depending on how far back you go, they couldn't even own property. In this context, women really needed to get married if they wanted to do anything. For this and many other reasons, the bar was lower, men could get married with less effort. Nowadays women can do anything and the only reason for them to want a man is if they want to, so you actually have to put in effort now.

Also, gender roles are changing and there's no clarity as to what being a man is supposed to mean in 2025. If it's not protecting and providing, if it's not dying in war, then the purpose of men is undefined as of now, and there's a tendency to want to return to the older gender roles.

And late capitalism is stressful, and men aren't going to college as much these days. There's lots of reasons but this is what i can remember in five minutes

Further listening material

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The first part of the equation seems to make sense, the number of eggs does depend on the number of children, age of the children, and size of the eggs. Makes sense that each of the kids gets two eggs. Not sure why it's the square root of y, but okay.

The (a+d) part i just don't understand at all. Why are the physical properties of the garden relevant?

And yeah, as the other commenter pointed out, i wonder what units they're even using for some of this data

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

You didn't make this meme

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah i don't have that kind of experience, so me troubleshooting parts would drag on forever. And then they could break months down the line.

In my experience, when buying second hand you trade time and effort for the price; being able to fix things means more time and more effort for even more savings. That's what this really is.

I guess there's something to how little i understand computer hardware making me imagine it as more fragile than it is

[–] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Oh wow, i wasn't expecting helpful advice for that specific model. Thanks!

 
 

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!

 
 
 

According to Wikipedia, the lastest version of eMule was released in 2010, but "official forum users" developed an updated version as of 2017.

Is this information up to date? Is that still true? I'd feel a lot better installing something on my computer that was last updated at least in this decade, which version of eMule should i pick, if any?

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