They think they get to wipe their hands of it because they "didn't participate", refusing to concede that said choice still counts as their participation. Through ignorance, cruelty, and/or privilege, they'll blame everyone else for the state of the world while refusing to do their part.
Not to say people shouldn't leave Twitter, but like...this isn't going to devastate him. He's in the inner circle. Twitter could burn down and I doubt he would even notice.
Just pointing it out. Lots of people probably would've said the same about FB before. Who knows wtf is going to happen in the next few years.
Worth considering that if Twitter ever ends up on the fediverse, the same will apply to any instance it federates with. Lemmy may be great because it's not corporate, but its functionality necessitates that it be one of the least private versions of social media available.
He's right, but not for the reason he thinks. AAAs continuing to prove indies are the best place to find interesting games.
Surprisingly relevant to me as yesterday I ran myself over with my tank in Factorio for the first time ever XD
If it's a site you use often, right-click and "block element" is your friend. Might be able to sus out a universal block as well if you dig around the different elements there.
The notion that he cares about anyone other than himself is laughable. He has nothing to gain from the party if he's not in office anymore, and he'll burn it all down before he gets dragged out.
If the rest of those turned their crimes into social media hustles, the cops would have a much easier time.
It was luck that last time he had no fucking clue what he was doing. He still doesn't, but this time he's listening to people that see how useful he is in their goals to upend the entire country.
Care to list some of the others? I could use some contextualization, cause this feels pretty fucking bad.
What is there to jeopardize? As long as he has the office, the dumbasses who helped him can't do shit once they realize their massive mistake. What are they gonna do? Not vote for him again? If he shockingly doesn't fuck with current term limits and elections, he's not up for election again. If he predictably does, their vote is meaningless since he's not going to leave the remotest chance things don't go his way.
What are some good horror movies by POC writers/directors?
Planning to watch through Jordan Peele's movies for the spooky season and thought it'd be nice to expand that out to other movies from POC creatives. My current list includes Sorry to Bother You (another favorite of mine I've been meaning to rewatch), Bad Hair, Horror Noire, and Ganja & Hess. Any other movies that fit the theme that you would suggest? They certainly don't have to stick to African American/Black creatives, and English isn't a must, but would be preferred.
Is there a list of hidden posts that users can see/unhide?
Not my home instance, but I hope the question is pretty universal. Was hoping to check through some of my hidden posts that I hid for spoiler reasons now that it's not a concern.
For the limited players out there - how'd your opinion on Play Boosters settle out?
I've been taking a break from Magic since the beginning of Caves of Ixalan for a number of reasons, but am wanting to check out Bloomburrow. Since part of the reason I stepped away was the Play Booster changeup for drafting, I was wondering how people are feeling about it. I'd be particularly interested in reading your thoughts on it if you were a hater that has ultimately come around to the change.
Disable thumbnails on mobile data
When I used Reddit is Fun, it really hogged up data unless thumbnails we're disabled. I've noticed that Connect is also using quite a lot of data, but there is no similar setting that I can find (there's an option to disable preloading images, but I'm not seeing what that changes).
Even if there was just an option to toggle thumbnails manually, it'd be much appreciated.
Federation issues popping up again?
I noticed a distinct lack of response to comments and looking at the threads from other instances shows that my comments aren't appearing outside of lemm.ee, and going to the link I shared shows there are 0 up-to-date instances with lemm.ee.
This happened around the big update in December, too. Not sure what the cause is, but here's hoping it can be resolved soon!
*Dunno if this info would be helpful, but the last comment of mine that seems to have federated properly was from 07:15UTC, and the first comment that seems to be missing was from 14:15UTC. So something happened between then.
What's a band that has one album that is just about perfect in your opinion, but rest of their discography misses the mark with you?
One of mine is Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I basically took the title verbatim and know the album word for word. And while I would love if it did, the rest of MCS's stuff just doesn't hit the same way.
And if you're not an album person, maybe a period of time in the artist's work? Whatever works for you.
*Lots of mentions of hit debut albums that subsequently petered out, which follows with the dreaded sophomore slump that hits many artists. Anyone with mid or even later career albums that stand alone? Those always intrigue me.
Is it more respectful to use more current photos of people who have died? Or is it better to use photos from their "prime"?
Just had this thought and I'm caught between the two. Assuming anything being considered were all "good" photos, what would you prefer if it were you?
*Lots of great responses! I do want to clarify that I am not currently dealing with this scenario myself, but I appreciate the thoughtful comments. Hopefully they can help people that are struggling. I know I'll keep them in mind for the future.
Late-to-the-party appreciation post for Ted Lasso (spoiler warning goes here)
I absolutely adored the first 2 seasons as they came out and wasn't confident in how the third season would follow up. And tbh, the first half was somewhat underwhelming. The Zava stuff seemed pointless and it kinda felt like it was running on auto-pilot. But man, starting with the Amsterdam episode it was just banger after banger (with special nods to 'The Strings That Bind Us' with Sam's emotional arc and the finale 'So Long Farwell' with, well...everything). The last show that made me laugh-cry that much was The Good Place.
I know there's lots of folks sad about it being done so quickly, but I don't think I'd want it any other way. Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, and everyone else on that show made something truly wonderful, not just for tv, but as a heartfelt examination and embrace of the flaws and strengths in all of us. This story about football that's not really about football (but still really is) will always hold a place in my heart.
slaps 'Believe!' poster
VW Beetle owners - how does it feel knowing you've almost certainly instigated people hitting each other?
For the unaware - Slug Bug
People should just post YT links instead of whatever obscure frontend they decide is better
For one, even if I wanted to use it, piped never works for me.
Second, on mobile, my alternative of choice doesn't recognize everyone's non-yt links, so it removes my choice in the matter.
Third, I have no reason to trust the weird-ass domains I see, and to un-fuck the url takes much more time then just handing out the original YT links and letting people choose for themselves how they view the video.
Tennessee's House GOP blocked a proclamation honoring Allison Russell for her Grammy win, while letting a similar honor for Paramore slide though.
Two Drums and a Cymbal
Rediscovered this vid digging around my old youtube playlists. I barely knew who Tom was back then, and with his recent announcement, I thought it was kind of neat to come back to. Hopefully others find it as funny/neat as I do!
Lemmy, is there a treasured piece of content that you stop yourself from going back to "too often" so as to not dilute it?
I do this for a few things, movies in particular. For me most recently, I'm planning on watching Bo Burnham's Inside this weekend, for the first time since I watched it shortly post-release. I wasn't really intending to wait \checks watch nearly 3 years on that one, but I definitely felt it needed some space before a rewatch.
Anyone else treat certain pieces of media similarly?
Outgoing federation broken?
I just noticed that all of my comments for the last few days don't show up in the parent instance of the post. It is happening in several different instances, so it seems like it's probably an issue on the lemm.ee side of things.
So far comments aren't appearing in 'Lemmy.world', 'Lemmy.ca', or 'Sh.itjust.works'
While looking into this, I also noticed other lemm.ee users posts that aren't appearing when switching instances.
*Suddenly got some interaction with the lost posts, as well as a few comments from 'lemm.ee' on the other account I've been using, which matches up to sunaurus's post on updating to 19.1. Glad to see things appear to be working as expected again. Hopefully 0.19 doesn't have anymore surprises for us!
Anyway to turn off or control the comment highlighting in 0.19?
The instance I'm on just did the update and this comment highlighting is really throwing me off. It's super glaring and unpleasant imo and I'd really appreciate the ability to turn it off. I've looked around a bit but haven't found anything myself. Am I missing something?
How to block embedded images and videos
Considering the latest rash of spam images plaguing the platform, I decided to figure out how to block embeds entirely since I never really liked them in the first place and am sharing what I got working since I figured it might be something others would like to enable themselves. (Fyi, this method requires uBlock Origin)
- Open your uBlock settings and navigate to the 'My Filters' section
- At the bottom of the document, add two breaks and then paste this:
lemm.ee##p > span
- If your instance is different than
lemm.ee, then replace that with the instance you use to have it work.
With that enabled, images and videos shouldn't load in comments anymore. I'm sure there's a better way to do this, so feel free to share if you know! This is just what I knew how to get work asap. Hope it helps some people!
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*0.19 seems to have borked the method I previously posted, but I was able to find another string that works that seems to be more efficient anyhow. Hopefully this one works for a while! I'm going to leave the old strings at the bottom here just to cover all bases. To reiterate, these are the old strings that, afik, do NOT work anymore.
lemm.ee##.comment-content > .md-div > p > [src] lemm.ee##.comment-content > .md-div > p > video
Shout out to Wilds of Eldraine
I drafted the heck out of it and I noticed today that I am 1-of "complete" with WOE, which is the first set I've done that with on Arena. While LCI looks to be good in it's own right, WOE just hit all the right notes and I miss it already, so cheers to an awesome draft format! It was great while it lasted.