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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2w ago

RSS support is absolutely my favorite old-web thing that's still around. It truly is fantastic to have your own curated RSS feeds.

The Fediverse specifically lets you create them really granularly as well!

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Misleading title.

There are indeed "weird blogs" they just have to be devoid of capitalist funding.

Corey Doctorow's Pluralistic seems in many ways to be a natural extension of his BoingBoing days albeit a bit more serious than the lighthearted BoingBoing.

MetaFilter fully became a non-profit and still retains a more a blog-esque format than it's contemporaries.

Mother Jones has a strong online presence and has avoided the capitalist machine for it's entire existence.

The thing is (and the more important part of this story is) that submitting to the capitalist machine is to submit to its machinations and unwillingness to adhere to the age-old social contract of a business producing profit to be sufficient enough for a business to exist. Modern capitalism is indeed a shell-game of extracting maximum value, essentially truly squeezing blood from a stone until the stone no longer even exists. Anyone who willingly plays this game will be bitten by this game, unless they themselves become ruthless capitalists and focus all their energy on shell-game chicanery over producing actual products, services, or content. There is no end-game here where the plucky capitalist-minded business-owner can overcome all and become the master of their own domain. The few who have (Valve, for example) had a solid financial footing to begin their more unique forays into profit-driving and they have stayed independent companies instead of publicly owned companies. That alone has saved them, and most of them (again, like Valve) started in an era before the behemoth of VC (Vulture/Vampire Capitalism) took hold, and made their early profits soon enough to not need such outside funding. Starting such a company today? Without outside funding? Get real. You'd have to be someone like Gabe Newell, who exited Microsoft with enough money to take a risk to make a profit of his own without needing outside stake, and the number of Gabe Newell's exiting industry to make their own goes at new business are exceedingly rare. The ones that actually succeed in making a profitable company are even rarer.

In capitalist America, the "free market" binds you and dictates your future.

Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2w ago

I am Error.

Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3w ago

Well I mean it stands to reason you're most likely arguing with paid actors using Persona Management software to have hundreds of such conversations in unison, so it's a moot point because they're being paid to prevent minds from being changed on subject X.

Honestly I feel like AI progression was just a cover for what was originally updated Persona Management where the human has to do even less to keep the consensus cracking and topic dilution ongoing.

Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3w ago

Tarsem Singh's The Fall which is practically a love letter to classic cinema practical special effects. It obviously includes a small amount of modern CGI effects, but he pushed really hard for most of the "special effects" to be of the traditional practical variety.

The story is a little cheesy, but the visuals are no less stunning than they were when it was released. If only it had been filmed in the era of 4K it would be even more stunning.

Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3w ago

*crying in IPv4 subnet calculations

Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3w ago

For real, that's actually the opposite of helpful. Documentation should be based on experience from use combined with discussions with the devs (providing they have the time).

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3w ago

Documentation documentation documentation! One of the most often overlooked and wildly important aspects of many major projects is accurate, up-to-date, and detailed documentation. If you're not a programmer, one of the number one ways you can contribute is to help draft and produce documentation for applications you enjoy! It's still a contribution to the project!

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3w ago

I always wanted to start an all-man all-theremin band called "ThereMen."

One of my favorite memories was seeing The Octopus Project and Man or Astro-Man? live and at the end of the show the two bands had "dueling theremins" and the guy from Man or Astro-Man set his theremin on fire.

That's all I really have to contribute here. Cool project though, I'd still rather save a hell of a lot of money for a Moog.

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4w ago

Limeade is better than lemonade by a country mile.

With the caveat that both store bought limeade and lemonade are absolute trash compared to fresh squeezed.

Fresh squeezed limeade is just divine.

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4w ago

Sometimes you just cant beat the classics.

Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4w ago

It's not as though that power structure behind the economic system is leveraged to dismantle and destroy competing economic systems or labor rights or anything. Yeah, totally and completely separate and never the twain shall meet. The CIA definitely didn't use economic terrorism to force countries to submit to US ~_cartels~ business demands.

Nothing has ever happened, like say, the US corporations using their wealth to dominate the court systems and laws of other counties to do something like put media "pirates" calling themselves "The Pirate Bay" in prison for things that were legal in their own country to enforce the US's own draconian capitalistic IP laws.

What an absolute crock of shit dude get a grip. Capitalism is oligarchy by any other name.

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4w ago

Violent crime has been consistently been dropping for decades. In certain areas petty crime has risen.

Times are getting tough, I expect petty crime like shoplifting food to increase.

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Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4w ago

Compassion for the vulnerable and weak.

Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4w ago

Great video and what's really fucked is that this past is the past half the USA wants us to return to. Where everyone is dreading their dreary repetitive factory job and hoping for a better future for their children so they children don't have to suffer the same drudgery.

Maybe some fucking MAGA twerps need to watch this.

Snot Flickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone 4w ago

I quit smoking cigarettes when the indoor smoking ban took effect 20 years ago in Washington state. I could no longer spend all night at a diner drinking coffee, smoking, and reading so it seemed like a good time to quit.

My budget has been a lot tighter due to having cancer, and so I more recently gave up vaping marijuana. I had been smoking marijuana since my teens and had switched to vaping it about 10 years ago for the sake of my lungs. The biggest difference in breathing quality was definitely the switch from smoking to vaping, I haven't noticed as much of a big difference since I quit vaping.

Either I don't have strong addictive tendencies or I don't know because I quit both cigarettes and marijuana cold turkey pretty easily. I struggled with sleep for a while after quitting marijuana, but that eventually passed after about a month and a half. I struggle with sleep anyway, and always have, so it wasn't that huge of a change.