Seriously, this. I can't stand to read "the classics" but I love reading things that interest me. Would be nice if schools recognized that and encouraged reading just for the sake of it rather than forcing kids to trudge through endless stanzas of "ye art incorrect and thou must protest this injustice. Oh Horatio! Oh, lamentation this! Lamentation that!" Like, fuck, I lost the plot 3 pages of lamentations ago.
Just let kids do book reports on Harry Potter (or whatever's cool these days). At least they're reading and their brain cells are firing.
Provided it's got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories, and a lot of players have "sleep mode" that will either set a timer or stop it after the current chapter. Seems like an easy way to get people into them, IMO.
I have two of Stephen Fry's autobiographies on audiobook and would basically let his smooth voice lull me to sleep. 😆
I don't think I've done a re-watch of LD yet, but I tend to skip very few episodes these days and start from the beginning.
Like, I used to always skip "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" but I didn't on the last circuit. It's definitely not one of my favorites, but I did enjoy it that latest time around where I hadn't before. So now I tend to watch them all even if it's on my usual skip list.
Lol, I think that's how I learned it was possible, too. yt-dlp uses the title as the filename, and all of the emojis came along with it. Was trying to rename them from terminal, but couldn't do much when half the filenames started with the fire emoji lol.
I think I'm just gonna get some Pi Zeros + cameras and just roll my own. Probably use the NoIR versions and some cheap IR illuminators. Feed those into Zoneminder.
Bonus points if I can find some old CCTV cameras, gut them, and fit the pi camera to those optics.
I know exactly what you mean, have seen it more than I ever wanted to, and just "ugh" every time. This isn't the proper community to dive any deeper into that topic, so I'll leave it at that.
The choice of words reminds me of one of the Comedy Central roasts. Can't remember which one, but Marlee Matlin was one of the roasters. She's deaf, but she can speak just fine.
Part of her set was, halfway through, she got Gilbert Gottfried (also on the dais) to "be her voice" for the rest of it. So he read her lines from the teleprompter in his way plus or minus a few tangents. Then this...
Can we not just appreciate that high-profile people are standing up for what's right? Are you seriously blaming Tatiana Maslany for not pushing harder for She-Hulk Season 2 just so that she can rally harder against the parent company two years after the show ended?
Not sure what country, but in the US, wouldn't that technically be illegal (at least between co-workers)? I know some places, such as call centers, won't let you speak another language to customers without approval (for liability reasons, I assume).
She would get very angry really fast if she heard anything in a language she didn't understand.
Like another commenter said, polarization and cemented, frequently extreme, views. You're not going to change their mind on anything, but they're constantly trying to change your mind on everything. I consider them shills and hit that block button.
I also block people who are here "on a mission" for whatever cause. Social media has enough activists, and even if I agree with them, I'm still thinking "will you shut up, man?".
I also block people who intentionally take others out of context as an excuse to attack them or inject drama into every interaction. There's plenty of that to go around, and thankfully, there doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of blocks I can issue.
Basically, I'm not here for drama or activism or circle-jerking any political cause or to suffer immature edgelords. I just wanna talk about cool stuff with rational people. Blocking helps separate the wheat from the chaff in that regard. Anyone who has a pattern of making this place unenjoyable gets blocked
I can't speak for your situation, but I do know of too many examples of marriages "just because" that made both partners completely miserable for decades. And their disgust at each other definitely was not good for the kid to grow up around.
If she's someone you could see spending your life with, just not right now, then it's worth considering. But either way, I would advise against agreeing to a shotgun wedding and leave that decision between you and her.
Seriously, this. I can't stand to read "the classics" but I love reading things that interest me. Would be nice if schools recognized that and encouraged reading just for the sake of it rather than forcing kids to trudge through endless stanzas of "ye art incorrect and thou must protest this injustice. Oh Horatio! Oh, lamentation this! Lamentation that!" Like, fuck, I lost the plot 3 pages of lamentations ago.
Just let kids do book reports on Harry Potter (or whatever's cool these days). At least they're reading and their brain cells are firing.
Provided it's got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories, and a lot of players have "sleep mode" that will either set a timer or stop it after the current chapter. Seems like an easy way to get people into them, IMO.
I have two of Stephen Fry's autobiographies on audiobook and would basically let his smooth voice lull me to sleep. 😆