@CartyBoston Is he having the same Vice President as last time? Is that a rule? Trump hasn't announced a vice yet at all has he? Does enough vice of his own I guess.
@CartyBoston Man, can you imagine watching a debate between those two. Hard to imagine anything else which would be both extremely irritating and extremely boring.
I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.
I understand the reasoning, but this gave me a good laugh 😂: "I sometimes read at my standing-desk while brushing my teeth which leaves me with only one hand." https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues/542
@cakeisnotalie i stopped using them when they replaced their search-engine with some sort of game where you identify traffic lights. Seemed like a weird pivot.
@eniko Understandable, especially if it sounds like it's more a one-off video than something planned to be regular.
Finding an instance that has open invites and will still exist a year from now is the tricky part. Open invites will mean exponentially expanding storage costs that wipe out the instance. This is the peertube conundrum
The WeDistribute folks are running https://spectra.video/signup and they may be prepared to host you. Have a work with them.
I wonder how many people care enough about the forced inclusion of "AI" in services that they use, or the use of their data for "AI" training purposes, to actually put in the time and effort and money to switch to other services.
Is it a nuisance, but not enough to encourage them to look at options.
@neil I've also been wondering if Microsoft trying to make next year the year of the ai desktop, will accidentally make it the year of Linux desktop as people nope out of it
I'm very aware of flexibility in religious logic.
I'm not religious myself just understimulated by how easy it is to create proofs in whatever direction annoys the listener the most.
For example of course I want the best for my fictional daughter. It's even my duty to ensure her wellbeing and connection to god.
The world and all it's sensory and emotional pleasure is created by god and we serve him/her by observing that. Almost all religions consider sex a gift of god.
God wants thot daughters.
@saxnot If someone thinks a god created the world then presumably literally everything is a gift from god. Sex, drugs, music, sunlight, cute animals and parasites and war and disease and pestilence.
Don't click on any link with "Google" or "Facebook" in the domain, it links to a terrible surveillance capitalist who will build a profile on you to try and help the capital manipulate you.
@mxtthxw What does "put out an an EP" mean these days? Are you talking about pressing some grooves into Vinyl disks? Putting something in a high street shop? Burning a CD? Uploading to Amazon and Spotify?
Does it just mean "a 20 minute MP3 on my peertube" now?
The internet makes "release" a weird thing. Is it different to a shitpost?
Critics will accuse anarchists of wanting to force people to do XYZ and I can’t help but wonder with what possible mechanism do they imagine anarchists could force anyone to do anything?
Why do you think so few artists attempt to create a magnum opus? It really seems most people who are good at something want to just keep making it in various forms, but don't try to make a single lasting great work, even when they're in a position to try.
As an example of what I mean, take Virgil who became well known for pastoral writing, but always had an eye on writing a national epic. A few people still read Georgics and Eclogues, but the Aeneid is the Opus.
@nuala The life of a software engineer is to be perpetually confused. We are puzzled about whatever bug we're solving until we solve it and then immediately it's on to the next one.
One thing that's great about Pistol Whip is that there's so many different game-mod combinations, each with it's own chart, that I'm like number four in the world at the fast-bullet rapid-fire no-armour "black magic" level chart.
Top three is in reach!
But those folks at the top of the no-mods charts are hundred of places above me, they're playing perfect games man.
@balterwenjamin42 Ah, Quake over a dial-up modem. I used to win at that about half the time too. Playing till I suddenly realized the sun was comming up.
But again, that wasn't the global market, it's the people in London with a less than 100ms ping over a dial-up.
Never saw a chart other than the game-end ones either I don't think.
PS. This won’t affect you if you’re already following me. It will mean my posts would get hidden from the public timeline and wouldn’t show up in trending posts, etc., on your instance. Hence “silenced.”
Judi Dench proves again that she's not remotely lovely or fluffy, as she's often portrayed.
ICYMI - she professed a wish to have Harvey Weinstein's name "tattoeed on her bum" during a promotional interview for Philomena, broadcast on Kermode and Mayo's Film Review podcast.
I know #MeToo hadn't risen to prominence at that time, but given his behaviour was widely acknowleged to be "an open secret in Hollywood", it's extremely unlikely she wasn't aware. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/14/judi-dench-trigger-warning-people-should-avoid-theatre/ #Theatre
@fkamiah17 Eh? The whole point of the warnings is so that people can stay away if they won't like that. Why would anyone object to a description of the play they're gonna see? It's hardly like descriptions of the content of a shakey play are spoilers.
Is it really that weird to wear a suit to an interview?
My brother has an interview this week, and he's having a hard time deciding what to wear. I don't think you can go wrong with a suit, but this thread seems to suggest it's possible to be overdressed and people think you are weird:
I haven't met a single person who has thought "what a weirdo, wearing a suit to an interview". I feel like a suit is the default for an interview.
Is it really so controversial? #askfedi
@mhamzahkhan I've been at too many interviews in a suit while those interviewing me are in shorts and sandals, but I don't think you'll ever not get a job for being in a suit whereas sometimes you might fail based on turning up in shorts and sandals.
Don't really own a suit that fits any more and wouldn't buy one specially, but too smartly dressed is better than not smart enough.
Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it
"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page
ULEZ discussion.
Firstly, I sometimes feel that anyone who questions electric vehicles or things such as ULEZ zones is labelled as climate denier or even worse as a Tory. Neither of these things are true.
Edinburgh ULEz is my closest zone. I can see the befit for pedestrians from better air quality but wonder if there are better ways to produce the same outcome. My main concern is that ULEZ seems to punish people with older vehicles. Many do not have the money to purchase something newer 1/2
@IndyRichard The low-emission zones are created by local government. At least the London one is anyway.
Hard to see how local government gets any benefit from people buying new cars. They don't generally have shares in car-manufacturing companies. They don't get to collect a new-car-tax.
However the incentives work though, I certainly agree that we need to not keep buying new cars but instead get them all off the road and have proper busses and trains.
